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Lamar Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Terry Anderson, Lauren Bacall, F. Lee Bailey, Anne Bancroft, Christiaan Barnard, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Tom Brokaw, Donald Budge, Joseph Califano, Steve Case, Dick Cavett, Carol Channing, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E. DeBakey, William DeVries, Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy...
...when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade principles for political survival...
DIED. HELENE HANFF, 80, letter-loving U.S. author, whose wry and witty 20-year correspondence with a London bookseller delighted readers on both shores when she turned it into a book, 84, Charing Cross Road; in New York City. It became a play, then a film with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins...
Ulrich's painstaking efforts were recognized in 1991 with the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as more academic awards including the Bancroft...
...moment, the current fad for sorority movies threatens to fuse the entire genre into a wholesome blur. Was every grandma a font of domestic wisdom? Has Anne Bancroft assumed all the lovable grouch roles that used to be taken by Jessica Tandy? Will Winona Ryder ever get to play an adult? Ryder, Bullock and Julia Roberts all seem to be auditioning for the role of America's Niece, and as a result their films come off a bit prim. "Hollywood is in a postfeminist era," says Sharon Stone, one of the few current grownup actresses with that old movie-star...