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...There was, above all, one of those transcendent Oscar moments that rolls history, grace and egotism all into one as only Hollywood can. A sobbing Halle Berry, the first African-American woman ever to win Best Actress, gave a moving speech, accepting the Oscar on behalf of Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Viveca Fox and "every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened." Then, running down the usual list of thank-yous and being pressured to wrap up, she said, "74 years here...
Along with Sweet, Nancy Selvage—Director of the Ceramics Studio—and Lena Lee—who speaks Chinese and is affiliated with the ceramics studio—I had an informal discussion with Lu. During the Cultural Revolution, Lu and his family had to move to the countryside because his father was a professor of geography and, like all intellectuals at the time, he was expelled from the city...
This may be the time for another project: a move from New York, where he has lived for the past few years, back to Stockholm. Johan, his 24-year-old son from his first marriage, still lives in Sweden, and Hallström and his wife, actress Lena Olin, want their other children - her son August, 15, and their daughter Tora, 6 - to grow up Swedish, not American. He also would like to work on a film in his native language. In the U.S.,"I have this feeling of being a visitor who is having an adventure," he says...
...Damned--the film the R.-and-B. star made just before her death--in a trifecta of teen queens turned screen queens. Girl power is back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lena Horne, Doris Day, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez? (Not to mention a couple of crooners named Crosby and Sinatra...
...Full of crisp, witty, His Girl Friday exchanges, we follow greenhorn gumshoe Richard Field, newly arrived in Shanghai from Yorkshire. His first assignment takes him to the scene of the above described sadistic murder of Lena Orlov, a down-and-out Russian princess who?like so many others in the city?had resorted to selling her only remaining commodity: herself. Field must find out why the fattest cats in town care about the brutal stabbing of this high-class whore...