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Meanwhile, the White House provided the Senate Banking Committee last week with a glimpse of privileged documents, including a photocopy of a Dec. 20, 1993, New York Times editorial with curious presidential marginalia. The editorial, which chastises Clinton for not cooperating with the Whitewater investigation, mentions Beverly Bassett Schaefer, whom then Governor Clinton appointed to the agency that oversees savings and loan associations in Arkansas. According to committee sources, the President drew an arrow from Schaefer's name and scrawled, in a reference to his 1992 campaign, "This is important to be on top of. Bassett did a good...
Where Whitney didn't deliver, Bassett was astounding. Back from "What's Love Got To Do With It" and as pissed as ever, she had the audience shouting along with her as she threw her adulterous husband out of her house and proceeded to burn all his belongings, including his Mercedes. "I'm tired," she screams, baring those buff biceps, "of being a background to your foreground...
...SCARIEST EYES IN movies. They can radiate pain or anger with the immediacy of a lightning flash and the intensity of a witch's curse. Angela Bassett should be cast as Medusa or Medea, but because she is a movie star, she plays righteous cops and sanctified wives. She ought to be in terrific films; instead she appears in mediocre ones, where she stands out like Callas singing Feelings and shines like her own amazing, reproachful eyes...
...Bassett does all the heavy emotional lifting in Waiting to Exhale, based on Terry McMillan's best seller. It's the old story--as old as Four Daughters in the '30s or The Best of Everything in the '50s or Now and Then last fall--about a quartet of young females looking for love and identity. Here the setting is Phoenix, Arizona, and the women are black, but everything else is familiar. Bernadine (Bassett) finds that her longtime husband is deserting her; Savannah (Whitney Houston) has a lover who won't leave his wife; Gloria (Loretta Devine...
...become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like tasty junk food. And Bassett provides the special sauce...