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...fall, is set in 1968. It follows a group of protesters during the upheaval and afterward, when the world's attention has shifted. Up next - if funds materialize - is the Catherine Breillat film Une Vieille Maîtresse (An Old Mistress) with Asia Argento and French cinema grande dame Jeanne Moreau. The money will probably come; Garrel seems to have a nose for good projects. - By Grant Rosenberg/Paris Things just keep getting better for Maya Sansa. The 29-year-old Italian from Rome has been charming audiences with her crooked smile and combination of charisma and reserve since appearing...
...reticence that would have limited her roles even in a color-blind Hollywood. Saucy comedy, of the sort Jean Harlow personified, was out, as was the scalding, wiseacre melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck-style. Wong could flash a regal hauteur and, when called for, that sensuality. She could have played grand-dame roles of the sort essayed by Garbo - she certainly could match the Swede for fascination, and self-fascination - but not, say, Marlene Dietrich, whose awareness of her power over men was always comic and ironic...
...honor is only the most recent in a coaching career that took White from Cambridge to Madison, with stays in between at Fordham, Notre Dame, UNLV and Nevada...
...first stop was at Fordham’s graduate school of communications, where White pursued a master’s degree while coaching. He earned an M.B.A. while coaching at Notre Dame and then accepted a full-time assistant coaching position at UNLV in 1990. After a stint at Nevada and then back to Las Vegas, White ended up at Wisconsin...
...that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same as Hamlet is considered for the Shakespearean actor,' says Dame Alicia Markova, a former prima ballerina who in 1960 wrote a book titled Giselle and I. 'You have to be something almost not human to give a good rendering, because it demands so much. Wherever I went, that's what the people asked for ... Why can't they just leave...