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It took only a few dozen crates of lingerie and dresses, the attentions of a stylist and the gifts of photographer Annie Leibovitz to make 10 young actresses look this good for Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue. But the two men accompanying them on the billboard above Sunset Boulevard aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

"He never gets mad," says Curtis, 11. "He justhelps out and teaches me things."

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Creativity Emerges in City Day Care | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

Jan Curtis plays the more-jaded-than-thou Old Lady, and in the process loses herself and the audience in her mezzo warble. She milks what lines are comprehensible (and even some that aren't) for all they're worth. Rounding out the cast is David Evitts, as the bumbling...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: 'Candide'ly American At Boston Lyric Opera | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

Curtis Gates is getting sentimental. The "athlete of the decade" at his inner-city high school, he once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. Some 10 years later he is an overweight wage-laborer in a bleak Chicago factory. Sometimes, he confesses to the camera, his eyes well up...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Losing Life's Game | 11/18/1994 | See Source »

Curtis Gates goes through spells of unemployment, but finally gets a job from his brother's private sponsors who own Encyclopedia Britannica. As we watch family dynamics, the movie yet again reveale the tribulations of inner-city life in the heroic, if resigned, strength of the mothers and the conspicuous...

Author: By Mimi N. Schultz, | Title: 'Dreams' A Provocative Mix of Hoops and Glory | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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