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HAIRY MOLES, A SNAGGLETOOTH--DID YOU ENJOY PLAYING A HAG? This look took an upsettingly short time to achieve. It took longer to get dressed up for bloody Sense and Sensibility...
...dark vision of China in The Crazed is that "of an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself." As Jin sees it, the Chinese are walled in on all sides: the intellectuals by a culture of falsehood, the students by tanks and troops, the peasants by their relentless poverty and everyone by paralyzing fear. In Waiting, Jin explored the emotional cost of enduring within those walls, but in The Crazed the pressure is simply too much. The dream of so many can be deferred no longer. Like a stroke, the only...
...roared during the Vietnam War, when thousands of troops bivouacked in Okinawa on their way to and from the war zone. The trade has simmered down, but new arrivals on base are still initiated at a Koza bar featuring live sex on stage and another in which an old hag shoots a banana out of her vagina...
...sort of fearlessness has also deepened my work. In Eve's Bayou in 1997, I played a crazy old hag who practiced voodoo. With my face painted white, I was extremely unattractive. I had to work differently, dig deeper, when the tool I was used to relying on--my looks--was taken away. Before the cancer, I would never have allowed a director to destroy what I considered to be Diahann Carroll. But I felt replenished by the role...
...Committee right now." Other names haven't been so lofty--if they are at all printable. "You are such a Democratic hack," wrote a woman in one of 3,000 e-mails sent to Roberts. "People are laughing at you all over the U.S. You are an old, old hag...