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...units have access to countless photo-equipment shops. Fashion designers can find any fabric sample among the garment-industry retailers on Seventh Avenue. The local cultural eco-structure combines nonprofit institutions that can take chances on commercially risky productions with profitmaking enterprises seeking big returns. This means that an actress can work in an off-Broadway production of The Seagull at night and still make the rent shooting a TV spot during the day. Meanwhile, a critical mass of institutions of higher education - the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parsons...
...described as the "on-and-off" girlfriend of the character Rob, when she is more accurately described as his "would-be girlfriend." And the story incorrectly stated that one character was "a pretty stray named Lizzy (Marlene Diamond)." In fact, the character's name is Marlena Diamond, and the actress who played her is named Lizzy Caplan...
...come to our party. Early winners here included Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak and swimming star Esther Williams. In 1956 Williams received a second honored: the Hollywood Citizenship Award. (Only two of these were handed out, Ronald Reagan winning the other one.) Zsa Zsa Gabor was named Most Glamorous Actress in 1958, the year she starred in the no-budget sci-fi farce Queen of Outer Space. Considering that Zsa Zsa was mainly famous for her many marriages (now 90, she's been wed nine times), the citation was really kind of a Wife Achievement Award...
...Next to me an actress dressed immaculately in the full green uniform of the People's Liberation Army sits slouched in her chair, chain-smoking. She is a member of the elite dance troupe charged with entertaining military top brass. Opposite are a lawyer and some business types. It's my turn to say something. I've played this game many times before with Chinese friends, but I'm lost in the whirlwind of jargon. Keen to avoid a bloodbath in the first round, I make a feeble plea for cool heads to prevail...
...left for being too vague in defining “national standards,” from the right for being an “unfunded mandate,” and now, from Cambridge’s premier repertory theater for being all-around not good enough. Playwright and actress Nilaja Sun’s solo performance makes “No Child”—directed by Hal Brooks, set-designed by J. Michael Griggs, and running at the American Repertory Theatre through Dec. 23—very enjoyable to watch, although its critique of public education reform...