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...asks a woman as she nuzzles him and kisses him on the cheek. When she responds in the negative, Baker replies, “How fortunate for you.” Powerful words from a man who knows himself too well.Despite Weber’s obvious fascination with the icon, the director brings the story to the screen with an almost cinéma-vérité ambivalence that allows the audience to draw its own conclusion, with a few major exceptions. While informative and revealing, the portions of the film devoted to his former girlfriend and his third...
...Bhutto, like her father, connected with Pakistan's downtrodden masses. She represented the hopes and aspirations of the country's poor and disenfranchised. For millions of her followers, her inability to deliver really did not matter. In a country ruled by inept, corrupt generals, Bhutto was an icon of defiance and courage. In death she has become larger than life. Her indefatigable struggle for democracy and her willingness to take obvious risks overrode much of the paradox that is implied in the article. Seemingly fragile yet politically astute and daring, Bhutto will continue to be a potent force in Pakistan...
...many women of the 1970s, Suzanne Pleshette was more than an actress; she was an icon. As Emily Hartley, the wife of Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show, the throaty Brooklynite upped the ante for sitcom spouses. Though Pleshette never became a blockbuster star, she often outshone weaker material in film (Jerry Lewis' 1958 Geisha Boy) and onstage (she met future husband Tom Poston in 1959's Golden Fleecing). Pleshette gained millions of fans on TV shows ranging from Dr. Kildare in the '60s to the more recent Will & Grace, where she had guest appearances. She said being...
...late actor had taken on other roles since, it was his Oscar-nominated performance as Ennis Del Mar, a sheep rancher who discovers his homosexuality in Brokeback Mountain, that mourners referred to again and again. His death was particularly poignant to gay New Yorkers. "He is a gay icon," says John Lopez, 22, who works in a gourmet food store that Ledger frequented. "To support us, he broke a lot of taboos." From overseas, the film's director Ang Lee said in a statement, "He brought to the role of Ennis more than any of us could have imagined...
Bhutto, like her father, connected with Pakistan's downtrodden masses. She represented the hopes and aspirations of the country's poor and disenfranchised. For millions of her followers, her inability to deliver really did not matter. In a country ruled by inept, corrupt generals, Bhutto was an icon of defiance and courage. In death she has become larger than life. Her indefatigable struggle for democracy and her willingness to take obvious risks overrode much of the paradox that is implied in the article. Seemingly fragile yet politically astute and daring, Bhutto will continue to be a potent force in Pakistan...