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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a real hunger for our people to tell their own stories," says Ava Hamilton, who heads the Native American Producers Alliance, an advocacy group of video directors and filmmakers from 20 tribes. "It's not just coming from the Indian community either. Everyone knows that what Hollywood's given us in the past has been pure fiction." Already this year, two other full-length independent features are making the festival circuit looking for exposure--Naturally Native, a heartfelt drama written and co-directed by Valerie Red-Horse, is about sisters trying to launch a cosmetics line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: They've Gotta Have It | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...dismissed purveyors of some of the seamier press gossip about him as "pimps and whores. Because they can't write their own name to earn a living properly. They got to lean on somebody else." But Sinatra in those years was natural tabloid fodder, doing the clubs with Ava Gardner (wife No. 2) and Juliet Prowse, and courting Mia Farrow, who became, fleetingly, wife No. 3. And scandal, spurious as it may have been, exerted its own fascination, deepened the dark edge of danger that Sinatra could use like a blade, to provoke when he wanted, to protect what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

TONY BENNETT Had, like Frank, a lovely liquid [4] baritone, but not his luck withr arrangers o his appeal to women. Where's his Ava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Mickey Rooney 21 Ava Gardner 17 months 7 movie star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...Italy for his first film at home in 15 years, yet his Stealing Beauty was also an English-language film--and a largely ludicrous one, filled with an international idle-class group of poseurs and gossips, all fawning over 19-year-old Liv Tyler. Her face, with its alluring Ava Gardner eyes and Halloween waxed lips reminiscent of her father's (Aerosmith's Steven Tyler), was plastered on billboards all over Cannes. It gave a clue to the triumph, at the Frenchiest festival around, of America the beautiful and banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL YOU NEED IS HYPE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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