Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...babe? Time to clean house! This seems to be the thinking of ANNE HECHE, who, with the ink still smudgeable on her contract to play the love interest of Harrison Ford in 6 Days/7 Nights, fired Endeavor, the agency that got her that job, as well as roles in movies (Volcano and Donnie Brasco) that made her this week's actress to moon over. Reason? Endeavor was opposed to her announcing in PEOPLE that she is gay and having a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, who only recently stepped out of the armoire herself. Heche has signed with more like-minded...
...want to make students aware of the stereotypical portrayals of Asian-Americans in the media," said Chinese Students Association co-President Harrison...
...stand--through a panel discussion on "The Memoir Explosion: Novel of the '90s or Just Another Brand of Therapy?" Most attention went to two of the panelists: Frank McCourt, whose best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes, had just the day before won a Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Kathryn Harrison, whose memoir The Kiss, also a best seller, tells of an incestuous affair between her and her father that began when she was 20. A year ago, hardly anyone in the audience had ever heard of McCourt and Harrison. Now both authors are superstars in U.S. publishing's hottest current...
...Harrison, who is a novelist, said she disguised her relationship with her father in her first book, Thicker Than Water. But she disliked the result because "in fictionalizing what really happened, I had been dishonest in a way that became increasingly painful...
...contemporary fascination with real stories raises a question: Just how real are they? McCourt, Harrison and all the wannabes may be telling the truth about their past, but they are also, as Harrison puts it, fictionalizing what really happened. Did McCourt's grandmother really say to him, when he was a small boy, "If 'tis a thing I ever find out you were telling jokes to Jesuits, I'll tear the bloody kidneys outa you"? Did Harrison's grandmother really tell her, once she began crossing her eyes as a child, "They'll get stuck like that...