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...Celeste Holm for Falun Gong In 2002, the Academy Award-winning actress (for 1947's Gentleman's Agreement) organized a petition calling for the release from a Chinese prison of her acupuncturist, Dr. Teng Chuyan, a member of the Falun Gong spiritual group. "The only choice for a practitioner [of Falun Gong] given by the Chinese government," Holm wrote, "is between death or living-death...
...says. Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of a Kenyan-Indian doctor and an English actress, in Yorkshire. In a 1989 Daily Express interview, he said that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow him to become anyone he wanted to be. He changed his name, paying homage to his spice-trading grandfather, whose nickname was King Clove. Before long, he had earned a place in the Royal Shakespeare Company, the troupe that helped...
DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, glamorous and saucy swimming star who won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics but was kicked off the American team four years later for late-night carousing; in Miami. On the trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade...
...lane road linking the southern French village of Ramatuelle to the sparkling Mediterranean waters off Saint-Tropez snakes down through an idyllic jumble of twisted holm oak trees, jagged white rock, sunbaked farmhouses and acres of lush green vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale 61 could also be lined with grave markers and memorials to drivers like Francis Manzoni. One February afternoon, a local youth who'd been drinking attempted to pass another car on a curve, lost control and hit Manzoni's auto head on - killing him instantly. The accident was iconic of a plague...