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Keira Knightley, Oscar-nominated actress, on being her own worst critic...
...knew I didn't look like an ingenue--my nose was too long, I had crooked teeth," comedic singer and character actress Alice Ghostley, below, said of her prospects for success in show biz. "But I also knew I'd find a way." The Tony winner appeared in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Graduate but was best known as the befuddled housekeeper-witch Esmerelda on TV's Bewitched. Ghostley...
HELEN MIRREN, British actress, while accepting an Emmy award for her performance in the PBS miniseries Prime Suspect...
...1970S, WHEN GAME shows "starred" guest panelists who appeared for years, smoky-voiced character actress Brett Somers--familiar from spots on such TV sitcoms as The Odd Couple and Love, American Style--became a household name when her then husband Jack Klugman insisted she deserved a spot on Match Game. A smart, bitingly witty performer, she became a favorite on the hit show, bantering bawdily with fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly and delivering a mean impression of Ethel Merman. "It was the best job I ever had," said Somers...
...biggest customer, importing about two-thirds of the country's crude production last year--amounts to support for genocide in Darfur. For years, Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College, has been writing articles and giving speeches on Darfur and China's role there. Then in March, actress Mia Farrow wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal calling for a boycott of what she labeled the "Genocide Olympics." The campaign may have had some effect on Chinese behavior. After using its vote on the Security Council to block U.N. intervention in Darfur for four years, Beijing reversed...