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...aspiring playwright penned his aptly titled second play-and the one-woman show, with nine characters spanning three generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured the world to acclaim-thanks in part to actress Madeleine Sami's extraordinary performance-and was even translated into Spanish. But all the while the playwright envisaged a celluloid version, and after several producers approached with the names of directors, Fraser decided to take the reins himself. Here he was guided by his leading lady Dee, 83, a veteran American stage...
...Ford's crime was his attendance, along with 3,000 other people, at a Super Bowl party sponsored by Playboy magazine last year. This inspired the Republicans to run their now famous ad featuring a scantily clad white actress who claimed to have met Ford at the party and then, in the punch line, pooched her lips, winked and whispered, "Harold, call me." A second ad accused Ford of having "Hollywood values," for what it said was his support of gay marriage and the distribution of morning-after birth-control pills to teenagers...
...quite-immaculate Conception" [Oct. 16]: The headline for the report on actress Keisha Castle-Hughes' pregnancy confused the Immaculate Conception with the virgin birth of Jesus. Roman Catholic dogma teaches that Mary was conceived without original sin and therefore didn't need to be baptized...
...portrayal of Augusten, one wonders why he hasn’t already become a household name. With “Scissors,” Bening adds to her pantheon of knockout performances. She is so sublimely off-putting as Deirdre you wonder how the naturally charming actress pulls it off. Deirdre’s treatment of Augusten is callous bordering on monstrous, but Bening somehow makes you sympathize with this hardhearted woman. As Augusten’s first boyfriend, Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare in Love”) is also heartbreakingly funny as he portrays a diagnosed schizophrenic...
...case you?re wondering, Jane is not the Hollywood actress who married and divorced Ronald Reagan and won an Oscar for playing a deaf-mute. That was Jane Wyman. Our Jane was married to the same man, businessman Edgar Ward, until his death in 2000, one day short of their 65th wedding anniversary. Her career spanned just about that length, from Broadway in the early '30s to a last TV movie role in 1996. The year before our first dinner, she had played Mr. Spock?s human mother in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and she had a recurring...