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...award traditionally goes to actresses with some theater experience or winners of Academy Awards: Katharine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson,” said Theatricals co-producer Joshua E. Lachter ‘09. “Paris Hilton is not normally considered an award-winning actress...
...decades ago in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Ruby Dee is 82, and has been in movies (and a lot of places more important, like the civil rights struggle) for 60 years. But when her brief role in American Gangster made her a surprise winner of the supporting actress award - sorry, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - she glided on stage to display all the class and radiance of a perennial American beauty...
...decent work as one of the FBI agents, but like so many other characters in the movie, he has to play his last scenes tethered in torture. And we will not forgive Lastplaceable for making Lane - at 43 a near-30-year veteran of movies and a fine natural actress who, I wrote not long ago, "has never had an ungorgeous day in her screen life" - look run-down, worn-out and generally kind of awful, even when she's not hanging upside down above a threshing machine. Finally, the movie turns Portland into a gray, soggy monsoon city...
...many women of the 1970s, Suzanne Pleshette was more than an actress; she was an icon. As Emily Hartley, the wife of Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show, the throaty Brooklynite upped the ante for sitcom spouses. Though Pleshette never became a blockbuster star, she often outshone weaker material in film (Jerry Lewis' 1958 Geisha Boy) and onstage (she met future husband Tom Poston in 1959's Golden Fleecing). Pleshette gained millions of fans on TV shows ranging from Dr. Kildare in the '60s to the more recent Will & Grace, where she had guest appearances. She said being...
Before the announcement that Theron would be the Woman of the Year, there had been a great deal of confusion about who would win the Pudding's coveted prize. Some news outlets had reported that Paris Hilton, a scandalous actress who is best known for an amateur sex video, would be the Woman of the Year...