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...just another out-of-work actress taking classes and studying her craft. Then she turned nine and got a job, as the blond pioneer girl in the 1973 TV movie Pioneer Woman. Even then, Helen had the mile-high forehead, perfect oval face and watchful stillness of a Vermeer maiden. "It was very strange," she says. "Somebody forgot to tell me I was a kid. In Pioneer Woman, I was trying to play Sophie's Choice...
...Mugger of the Nation? That's what some South Africans have been calling her since 1991, when she was convicted of kidnapping and fined $3,200. The case against Madikizela-Mandela (she added her maiden name after the 1996 divorce from President Nelson Mandela) arose out of her involvement with a bunch of young Soweto Township toughs who called themselves the Mandela United Football Club and acted as her bodyguards. In 1988 the gang abducted four youths from a township mission house, and one of them, a 14-year-old activist nicknamed Stompie (Afrikaans for cigarette butt) Seipei, was later...
Disney has deposed Spielberg and Geffen, hoping to force them to take the witness stand, perhaps to discuss DreamWorks and Katzenberg's performance, including a purported loss of more than $20 million on the studio's maiden picture, The Peacemaker...
...Titanic," the most expensive film in history, set sail Saturday in Tokyo, and by all accounts the movie's maiden voyage was more successful than that of its namesake. The (reportedly) $200-million production?s special effects drew a warm response from reviewers, although its three-hour duration and some of the minutae drew criticism. Speaking at the event, male lead Leonardo DiCaprio said the film, which opens in the U.S. in December, had been "a long journey" and had "made a man of me." The large contingent of teen-aged girls in attendance appeared to agree...
...writers. Still, when the government offered 12,000 kuna ($2,000) in a national competition for a new slogan, the winner--"Croatia, Paradise on Earth"--seemed suspiciously weak. Turns out the author was the wife of Minister of Tourism Niko Bulic, who had entered the contest under her maiden name, Dubravka Petricic. Since the scandal broke, Bulic has resigned and promised to give the prize money to charity. As for a slogan, it appears that they're sticking to the "Paradise on Earth" thing. After all, the previous slogan was "Croatia--A Small Country for a Big Holiday." Maybe...