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Hasty Pudding Theatricals also selects an annual Woman of the Year. Last year, the honors went to actors Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts...
...Reported by Helen Gibson and Barry Hillenbrand/London
...Prepare yourself for nightly news clips featuring a blue-faced Mel Gibson in a kilt. Some 700 years post-'Braveheart'; voters in Scotland will decide on two initiatives that could give the kingdom its first parliament since 1707. One would create a separate Scottish Parliament; another would give that body the power to levy taxes. If a parliament is created, it would administer Scotland's share of the UK government budget, currently $22.5 billion. That appears to be enough for locals, who support the idea of a parliament but balk at it actually having any power over their wallets...
...Gibson grew up in Harlem, sharp enough to shoot pool with the local sharks and tall enough to play basketball with the boys. She was impossible to beat at paddle ball, a skill that evolved into her powerful game of tennis. She admitted no equals in the segregated leagues. And soon her talents were grudgingly admitted by the whites-only tournaments. But even while winning, she was denied rooms at hotels. One refused to book reservations for a luncheon in her honor. She claimed not to care, telling TIME in 1957, "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that...
...Gibson may not have thought herself a winner. Her life meandered after she gave up amateur tennis in 1958. Her marriage failed. Her illness has all but robbed her of speech. All the blinds are lowered at her home. But through a gap, the doorbell brings a momentary glimpse of a tall figure in khakis, refusing reply and vanishing into darkness. A certain unintended wistfulness haunts the title of her autobiography, I Always Wanted to Be Somebody. She was. But in East Orange, there is a woman who lives in an apartment whom nobody sees. She used to be somebody...