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Lewis, 28, aims to use a different built-in audience to try what she calls an "educational" talk alternative. Talking in the "library" of The Ananda Lewis Show's set, still under construction, Lewis is intensely earnest--at MTV, she took on sober-minded topics like mental-health awareness and "driving while black," even though the job also required reporting from the Beach House. Her determined high-mindedness extends to the names of her Chihuahuas, Einstein and Mozart...
...actress's goals are more carefully considered. She has finished a new film version of The Importance of Being Earnest in which she plays Cecily Cardew, whose romantic cleverness is of a variety more purring than Witherspoon has yet played. Also looming is an action picture based on the old Honey West private-eye books...
...brains trying to come up with the right director for The Producers. Tom suggested Mike Ockrent, Stro's husband, who had directed Crazy for You. I told Tom that was the best show I had seen in years. Stro choreographed it. Tom and I were talking to Mike in earnest about directing our show when, tragically, he was found to have leukemia and died. Susan, naturally, was devastated, but we thought it might actually be good for her to take over the reins. We knew she could direct; after all, she had just finished Contact...
...Mueller's critics are skeptical. "The cynics are saying, let him take over the FBI, it'll be great theater, and he'll run it into the ground in six months," says one former prosecutor who found Mueller overbearing. But his friends insist that behind his earnest demeanor, Mueller has the balance, wisdom and wry sense of humor to manage the task...
...Crimson’s Fowle quest began in earnest back in November at the Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded Nationals—the first two ICSA championships. Sophomore Clay Bischoff claimed fifth place in the men’s regatta, while junior Margaret Gill—for the second time in three years—took home highest honors on the women’s side...