Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams, 28, who grew up in Queens, New York, wanted to be a painter. "That's what probably stimulated my interest in color now," he says. "I wanted to be Basquiat or Keith Haring." Hunter, 31, started his career as a photographer but decided to study film at California State University at Northridge after visiting a movie set when his brother, an aspiring actor, got a part in a small indie film. Hunter later dropped out, and says now, "I learned that I had to go out and hustle if I was going to make it, [that] I was going...
Some called her the black Marilyn. Dorothy Dandridge was light-skinned--or, as she would say, in mock haughtiness, "tan. Teasing tan, darling!" In old Hollywood, black was the color not of a skin tone but of a stop sign for gifted actors. So Dandridge's impact as a fiery siren in the 1954 Carmen Jones--she earned the first Oscar nomination for an African American in a leading role--allowed her and all blacks to hope Hollywood might finally find a place of honor for people of color. But like Marilyn, Dandridge doubted her talent, had bad luck with...
...career as a suave nightclub singer before playing the jungle queen in Tarzan's Peril (1951). Here and in Bright Road (1953), a sweet drama starring Dorothy as a rural teacher, she flashed limpid eyes aching with sympathy; imagine Olivia de Havilland with a little sex and a little color (Dorothy's face had to be darkened with makeup...
...often, middle-class women of color are either airbrushed from America's literary canvas or painted with hackneyed strokes. While a smattering of books have attempted to redress this problem, among them Jill Nelson's 1993 memoir, Volunteer Slavery, the lives of these women beg for further elaboration. Happily, Nelson's new memoir, Straight, No Chaser (Putnam; 225 pages; $23.95), and Gwendolyn M. Parker's Trespassing (Houghton Mifflin; 209 pages; $23) provide some of the missing detail...
...deserves to die the way designer Gianni Versace did [NATION, July 28], especially not a genius who has brought beauty and color to this world. How many people contribute such unabashed generosity and elegance? Versace transformed fashion into a celebration of our existence. Although I did not own any of his magical creations, I admired his talent in presenting beautiful, timeless works for us to appreciate. Through his exuberance, passion and artistry, Versace left his indelible mark on the world. DIVYA MIRZA Waltham, Mass...