Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of their business doesn't mean I don't think it was wrong. It was wrong, but it was a private wrong. And maybe when I'm older, I might look back on it and see where I have different responsibilities. But I think at my age, then and now, being able to see the complete picture--I don't think that is really possible. It didn't affect his job; it didn't affect my job; we were together mostly on the weekends, when I was not supposed to be working and he was not really supposed...
...wasn't going to be someone," says Blanks, 43. He was the fourth of 15 children born to a poor black family in Pennsylvania. He had bad hips, dyslexia and (can you hear the Rocky theme music yet?) was nearly kicked out of his first martial-arts class at age 11. Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself. He won scores of karate titles, appeared in a string of B movies and was born again--in that order. He is a preacher in an athlete's body...
...been a crackhead and a glamour girl," says HALLE BERRY, "but never before both at the same time." Such are the rewards of portraying DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, inset, the ravishing but doomed actress who died of an overdose in 1965 at the age of 41. Berry will play Dandridge, the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, in an upcoming HBO film. "I understand the struggle of a black actress wanting to do so much but having so many limitations," she says. Berry won the role, coveted by such stars as Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson, by upping...
...limits. In other words, they have an affinity for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Now that a young writer-director named Roger Kumble has turned Pierre Laclos's malevolent, much adapted minor masterpiece into a nastily assured teen flick, one has to wonder why it took so long for somebody to age-down its louche protagonists and update its setting...
Even though she started in show business at age 3 1/2 (as a pint-size contestant on a TV game show called Juvenile Jury) and grew up to be the pre-eminent musical-theater star of our day, Bernadette Peters had never seen Annie Get Your Gun. So when she was offered the starring role in a revival of Irving Berlin's 1946 classic, she was not interested in nostalgia. "I don't think a show should be a walk down memory lane--that's why I've avoided revivals," she says. "I believe a show should happen in front...