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...transcendent Oscar moments that rolls history, grace and egotism all into one as only Hollywood can. A sobbing Halle Berry, the first African-American woman ever to win Best Actress, gave a moving speech, accepting the Oscar on behalf of 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." Then, running down the usual list of thank-yous and being pressured to wrap up, she said, "74 years here, I've got to take this time...
Selections included the Boston premier of the South African film Boesman and Lena, starring Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, and The Brothers, featuring Harvard's Tatyana...
...Boys, My Children My Africa and Road to Mecca) classic play takes movie-goers to the theater in more ways than one.Boesman and Lena starts with a jolt, in the middle of something that seems to be still looming over the two titular homeless wanders. Lena (Angela Bassett) stands alone in the middle of the screen begging Boesman (Danny Glover) to tell her how they got to this barren place. "Where did they come from? Which path did they take?" she asks. Boesman just laughs, refusing to tell her, essentially refusing to give her back her life and her past...
...taxi driver in a grim industrial town in the north of England. Now he's back in a similar hardscrabble environment, this time as George, the proprietor of a fish-and-chips shop in a working-class London suburb in the '70s. He long ago married an Englishwoman (Linda Bassett, in a splendidly grounded performance). But he is determined that his numerous progeny embrace tradition--especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens, one of his sons is bolting an arranged marriage, bringing shame on George, who did not happen to notice that...
...that Vanessa L. Williams, Samuel L. Jackson and Brad Pitt all suffer from adult acne. Even more encouraging, Elizabeth Hurley has some acne scars too. Angelina Jolie has a nice big scar in the middle of her neck, Angela Bassett suffers from a balding condition, Val Kilmer has a distended sac on his elbow, Leonardo DiCaprio suffers from pimple outbreaks regularly, Britney Spears had a mondo cyst underneath her lip during the cover shoot for "Baby One More Time," Marky Mark's got a third nipple, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Love Hewitt both have chicken pox scars, the list just...