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...life was eventful long before then. Cheung Kwok-wing was born the youngest of 10 children of a Hong Kong tailor?he made suits for William Holden and Alfred Hitchcock?and his wife. "I didn't have a happy childhood. Arguments, fights and we didn't live together; I was brought up by my granny." His nearest sibling was eight years older; Leslie says he was "the youngest and the loneliest. My brothers would be dating girls and I was left alone in the corner, playing GI Joe or with my Barbie doll. It was miserable. My father couldn...
...Nancy Drew (don’t laugh) is as perpetually 18 as her strawberry blond hair and two-dimensional storylines; Jane Eyre is 19 when she reunites for good with a late-thirty-something Mr. Rochester (why did that always seem romantic before?); and the life crises of Holden Caulfield and Esther Greenwood have come and gone by 20. Worse yet, Romeo and Juliet (at approximately 16 and 14, respectively) are practically prepubescent...
DIED. BEATRICE STRAIGHT, 86, spirited performer who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 1977 role in Network as the scorned wife of William Holden; in Los Angeles. She also won a Tony in 1953 for playing Elizabeth Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a role she originated...
...been a war going on--between neighborhood preservationists and developers, between low-income artists and the dotcommers who've invaded their turf, between small businesses that can no longer afford skyrocketing rents and the chains, real estate offices and pricey boutiques that can. Says Mime Troupe playwright Joan Holden: "It's been a David-and-Goliath knock-down, drag-out fight--the people against city hall." In the November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have...
...year for the last decade-and one can see why so many farmers seem buffeted by forces beyond their control. Farmers in Britain questioned why the government allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe. We don't want that anymore...