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...Nation (1915), the major Negro roles were played by whites in blackface. Hollywood's first black star, Stepin Fetchit, fitted the stereotype of the slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks had a bankable movie hero. "To this day," argues Film Historian...
Weissman has led Dartmouth in rushing for the past two seasons and was second in receiving a year ago. He'll be backed up with a squadron of solid runners, including Lorenzo Chambers and Bill Daly, Rich Lena will have to be replaced at fullback...
Vice-presidential bids were more common. As early as 1924, the Democratic Convention considered, and rejected, South Carolina Committeewoman Lena Springs. The last strong bid was by Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas, who won 404 Democratic delegate votes in 1972 but was beaten by Thomas Eagleton. The small parties that occupy the fringes of American politics have been more willing to support women. In 1980 there were seven nominations for the No. 2 spot, including LaDonna Harris as vice-presidential choice of the Citizens Party and Angela Davis as that of the Communists. Such gestures, however, remained little more than...
Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) is a renowned stage director, now embarking on a new production of August Strindberg's 1902 fantasia, A Dream Play. In the pivotal role of Indra's Daughter he has cast young Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), who is the daughter of two of Henrik's old acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink...
...takes a special presence, and perhaps an unusual life story, to sustain a one-person show. Lena Home did it for more than a year on Broadway by describing her travails as a black actress confronting Hollywood racism. Peggy Lee closed, five nights after the opening, with her reminiscence about losing stardom and finding religion. Kaye Ballard lasted ten unprofitable weeks off-Broadway this spring with a lively yet sometimes bitter recollection of her decades-long struggle to impress her mother. Compared with them, MacLaine is at a disadvantage: she has little suffering to recall. Indeed, she says...