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...members of the 101st Airborne hoping to survive a night's sleep and countless Iraqi grunts and civilians - experienced an Oscar week so taxing that they didn't live to see the ceremony. Have some sympathy, please, for a tailor's publicist facing the wartime challenge of getting Jennifer Lopez into one of his client's gowns. And, Lo, she looked ravishing in a vintage off-the-shoulder Grecian-style number (that was once worn by Jacqueline Kennedy) with flowered brocade edging I last saw on my Aunt Margaret's bedspread...
Each Wednesday at 8:30 P.M. E.T. on ABC, a character named George Lopez learns a little about himself--that his long-lost father is alive, though his mother claimed he died after walking out on the family, that he has a half brother he's never known about...
Each Monday night, in a therapist's office somewhere in Los Angeles, a different George Lopez story unfolds. There, the real-life comedian who plays his eponymous alter ego also learns about himself a little at a time. He learns how to be part of a family--his idea of bonding with his 6-year-old daughter used to be to turn on the tube and sit in silence. He learns to forgive his grandmother, who raised him after his mother abandoned him but didn't show him affection or even celebrate his birthday. Lopez, 41, still tears up when...
Besides, he owes her his career. On George Lopez, he plays a could-have-been version of himself, a manager at an airplane-parts factory trying to work out his relationship with a cold, critical mother figure. In a sense, Lopez began creating the show when he was a boy, escaping into the comforting alternative universe of sitcoms like Julia, with Diahann Carroll as a loving single mom, and Chico and the Man, with Latino comic Freddie Prinze. "It was the first time I ever saw anybody on TV who looked like me," Lopez says. Inspired by Prinze, Lopez became...
Stargazing has become our governing guilty pleasure. We feel, many of us, that we know Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna or Jennifer Lopez as well as we know our best friends, and though that is clearly an illusion, it is not entirely untrue. As you float along the surfaces of Martha Sherrill's haunting and evocative first novel, you experience something of a waking dream: the It girl of the moment is telling a journalist, "At my deepest point, my still point, I am water," when suddenly, almost inexplicably, you get pulled into something deeper. Stars somehow possess...