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Linney's not the type to brag. Although she was raised in Manhattan (her father is playwright Romulus Linney) and trained at the Juilliard School, she retains a soft Southern drawl and kind manners acquired during childhood summers spent with relatives in Georgia. Still, this non-diva is a prized commodity in the New York City theater, where she's starred in Uncle Vanya. Indie filmmakers love her too; she can currently be seen in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Performers | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...listened to Carter on NPR the other day as he discussed that time. His familiar soft drawl - a sweet voice, with that undercurrent of regret and wonder that signals a southerner's nostalgia drifting back over a considerable distance - called back in my own mind a summer in southern Maryland many years ago, when I was a nine-year-old white boy and my best friend was Charles, the son of a black tenant farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Innocence and Ugliness | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...Linney's not the type to brag. Although she was raised in Manhattan (her father is playwright Romulus Linney) and trained at the Juilliard School, she retains a soft southern drawl and kind manners acquired during childhood summers spent with relatives in Georgia. Still, this non-diva is a prized commodity in the New York City theater, where she's starred in "Uncle Vanya." Indie filmmakers love her too; she can currently be seen in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...loaded with guest stars. Snoop Dogg adds his sly Southern drawl to Conditioner, Nas contributes a few apocalyptic rhymes to Let My Niggas Live, and soulman Isaac Hayes makes an appearance (along with a sample of his 1969 cover version of Walk On By) on I Can't Go to Sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for the Perfect Beat | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...loaded with guest stars. Snoop Dogg adds his sly southern drawl to "Conditioner," Nas contributes a few apocalyptic rhymes to "Let My Niggas Live," and soulman Isaac Hayes makes an appearance (along with a sample of his 1969 cover version of "Walk On By") on "I Can't Go to Sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for the Perfect Beat | 11/18/2000 | See Source »

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