Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woody Allen's Celebrity tracks the former's possibly predictable fall and the latter's entirely unexpected rise within the tensely striving world of Manhattan's media and cultural demimonde. Since Branagh's performance (rather daringly) imitates Allen's anxiously stammering screen persona, and Davis is doing something she has done--expertly--for the writer-director before, playing a jilted, tilted woman, it may sound as if this is yet another of Allen's comically discordant chamber pieces about the impossibility of permanent connection between postmodern urbanites who think too much about themselves and feel too little for each other...
...secret of her success naturally eludes her former mate. Close, yearning observation has led him to believe that the celebrated are mostly not more gifted or harder working than he is. He thinks if he can just worm his way closer to the center of their world, he will be allowed to partake of their magic...
...Votes received by "Grandpa" Al Lewis, former star of The Munsters, in his failed bid for Governor of New York...
...South Carolina, Governor David Beasley (R) didn't have worse enemies than his former friends. Victorious challenger Jim Hodges (D) used testimonials of state Republican officials refusing to vote for Beasley, calling him unscrupulous and a liar. Brutal...
INDICTED. EDWIN EDWARDS, 71, former Governor of Louisiana, in an alleged scheme to extort millions for awarding riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards denies he did anything illegal...