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The town's moguls, most of them outcasts from Eastern Europe, imported actors from all over the world, but for decades they couldn't confront the perceived American prejudice against a people who had been in this country for centuries. It's not that blacks, when given the rare and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

Washington made her film debut in the Dudley Murphy short "Black and Tan" (1929), in which she plays Duke Ellington's girlfriend, a dancer who performs despite illness and collapses after her big number. In this ambitious, primitive two-reeler, she delicately embodies the wild soul inside the dying swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

Alas, Washington had no blooming future in movies. After "Imitation," she starred as a vengeful plantation owner in the indie voodoo drama "Ouanga" (1936), and had one more decent major-studio part, billed fourth in the Fox drama "One Mile from Heaven"(1937). Washington's duskily refined gorgeousness scared Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

The AOL division's long-term-growth gambit is to attract as many of its dial-up customers as possible into the promised land of broadband, where they would pay more--eventually as much as $200 a month, in Pittman's rosy scenario--for a variety of on-demand services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Engine Stalls At AOL | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

We live in the age of extended adolescence. Pop culture is full of characters like Bridget Jones and the Friends gang, waiting until their 30s to start thinking seriously about marriage and kids. But nature still keeps to the same schedule. Many twentysomething mothers and fathers take to the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of Starting Families First | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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