Word: cinderellas
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...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...
...only ambition was to be the best ballerina in Ho Chi Minh City. But her boyfriend, Ngo Quang Hai, is an actor. And one day she accompanied him to an audition for The Quiet American. Yen's simmering stillness caught a casting director's eye?isn't this how Cinderella stories go??and she was introduced to director Phil Noyce...
Traditionally the Cinderella candidate in Brazilian elections, this time the socialist leader Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva is the favorite to win. Indeed, the Workers' Party (PT) candidate's current 25 point lead over his closest challenger, Jos? Serra of the ruling Social Democratic Party, suggests that Lula may already have amassed enough support to win the presidency in the first round of balloting on October 6. And the prospect of his victory has the international community paying more attention than ever to Brazil's fourth election since the country's returned from military dictatorship to democracy...
CDIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, irreverent, pioneering Disney animator--one of the elite early group called the Nine Old Men--who directed animation on such films as Fantasia, Dumbo and Cinderella; in Arcadia, Calif. Kimball gave a makeover to Mickey Mouse and created Jiminy Cricket, the wisecracking, top-hatted character in Pinocchio. He won an Oscar for his 1969 animated short It's Tough to Be a Bird...
Disney settled lawsuits with the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella actresses. But it won several cases against orchestras and music publishers who tried to block the use of such compositions as Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in videos of Fantasia without additional compensation. The different decisions hinged on specific contract language, but also mark a tendency of some courts to safeguard the rights of individual creators more zealously than those asserted by sophisticated entertainment companies...