Word: bassette
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...After we get up off the floor," says the Salvation Army's stunned commander in chief Todd Bassett, "we have a tremendous amount of work to do." For starters, the Salvation Army needs to launch a public-awareness campaign, not only to explain why it needs the extra cash, but also to make sure it's known that none of Kroc's high-profile gift can fund any of the charity's other programs. The group plans to hire advertising firm Young & Rubicam to help get the word out. Last week Bassett fielded calls that were a mixture of envy...
DIED. BRIAN GIBSON, 59, British film and television director; of bone cancer; in London. He guided Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne to Academy Award nominations in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It, about Ike and Tina Turner, and was responsible for such acclaimed TV movies as Dennis Potter's 1979 BBC film Blue Remembered Hills and the 1991 biopic The Josephine Baker Story...
...satire program The Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays her in the biopic, not Angela Bassett JERRY SPRINGERRA Trash host's show named worst program ever by TV Guide-validation that Springer has succeeded beyond his loftiest ambitions JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS Ted Williams' son criticized for having his dad cryogenically frozen. On the plus side, there was plenty of ice around for the wake
...Achievement award to Sidney Poitier; Best Actor laurels to Denzel Washington; and the Best Actress statue to Halle Berry. In her emotional acceptance speech, Berry shook off the happy heaves and dedicated her prize to a sorority of splendid sisters: Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Viveca Fox and "every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened...
...Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many others. A substantial portion of Mosher's royalties will go to AIDS charities. Dunne aims to publish for Christmas next year...