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...single Believe is No. 2 on the Billboard charts and "Cher hair"--ironed flat, middle parted--crowns trendsetters everywhere. Even contemporary designer Tom Ford of Gucci, Cher reports, told her she inspired his latest '60s-inflected collection. The multimedia onslaught will continue when her film, Tea with Mussolini, starring Dames Judi Dench and Joan Plowright, opens in the spring. Cher admits to being awestruck by the titled ensemble. "When you get around them, you don't care who you are, you're just boring." Hey, does Dame Judi have tattoos...
...Dame Iris Murdoch's like will not be seen again. A beautiful woman with a brilliant mind, a divine innocent, philosopher and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, the Sea, living closely and in famous squalor with her husband, the eminent critic John Bayley, she was unmoved by the claims of publishers and fans upon her privacy and person. To the impudent question in a bookstore's Visitor's Book "What are you famous for?" she wrote, "For nothing. I am just famous." And she would have believed...
...mind--behind that transformative wear is Sandy Powell, perhaps the movies' most celebrated costume designer since the heyday of postwar grande dame Edith Head, a 35-time Oscar winner. Come the Academy Awards next month, Powell, a 38-year-old Londoner with 25 pictures and two previous Oscar nominations to her name, will be up again for a statuette--and the competition will include herself. Last week the designer received two Oscar nominations--one for her work on Velvet Goldmine and the other for the hit romance Shakespeare in Love...
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After 41 years on the English stage, after receiving the female equivalent of a knighthood in 1987--"Oh, don't call me Dame," she says, burying her face in her hands--it appears that Dench's American moment has arrived. Last year she received an Oscar nomination for Mrs. Brown; her Golden Globe nomination this year for Shakespeare puts her back in the Oscar game; and in April, she will appear on Broadway for the first time in 40 years, starring in David Hare's Amy's View, a 1997 London hit. She has even gone mainstream--playing...