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...decide whether to dye their hair orange or green. But some judgments can be made about him. He is known as an intelligent youngster--he passed the test for Eton, a tough prep school--and he has poise beyond his years. In her Panorama interview, Diana said of her elder son, "That child is a deep thinker." She pointed out that it will be impossible to know for some time how the Waleses' shenanigans have strengthened or warped Wills' character...
Miserly father James (Jerome Kilty) worsens matters by denying the seriousness both of Mary's drug use andof Edmund's illness, trying to scrimp on a sanitarium for Edmund and taking out his anxieties on his elder son, the failed actor Jamie (Bill Camp). Jamie, already a depressed and cynical alcoholic, is now devastated by his mother's relapse and brother's illness, blaming his father's stubborn cheapness for both. As the day wears on, accusations, guilt and motivation for inexplicable past acts are revealed one by one, until a tragic pattern emerges, which the characters seem hopeless...
DIED. LONNE ELDER, 64, playwright and screenwriter, best known for his Harlem family play Ceremonies in Dark Old Men; after a chronic illness; in Woodland Hills, California. His film credits include Sounder and Bustin' Loose...
...writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back, remembers being inspired by Morrison's books in school and then sensing, once her own work began to be published, that the elder author was not offering her much encouragement. (They write, to put it mildly, dissimilar fiction; Morrison is about as close to Faulkner as McMillan is to Judith Krantz.) Those feelings have passed. When she meets Morrison now, McMillan says, "we hug each other...
Marsalis, 34, comes from a musical family and a musical city. His father Ellis is a pianist and educator; his elder brother Branford is a saxophonist; and one of his younger brothers, Delfeayo, is a trombone player. In New Orleans, a city as overflowing with jazz players as a bubbling pot of gumbo, Wynton was an early standout, a musical prodigy. As a teenager he played with drummer Art Blakey. Before Marsalis turned 22, he recorded a classical album that won a Grammy...