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When asked how she succeeds, she talks about faith. She says it is "God and hard work" that help her win. And though she is called an orphan, Oksana says she has never really been alone: "My mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart." In the tiny bedroom she shares with one of Zmievskaya's daughters, she keeps pictures of the Virgin Mary but none of her mother. She does not need them...
Bisgeier suggested stopping by the puppet showheld in memory of Frank Zappa, where shoppers canadopt an orphan from any country in the world.Also, magicians and Christmas carolers attractedflocks of onlookers...
...instead of a mysterious wasting disease. If the ghost of Christmas present dresses like Santa and quotes Diet Pepsi commercials, that doesn't keep him from making the eternal case for charity. If the ghost of Christmas past summons up not only old Fezziwig but also Tarzan and Little Orphan Annie, Frederick Douglass and the Washington Redskins, the hokum need not impinge on the message of choosing people over pelf, emotion over ambition...
Tommy Lee Jones has agreed to meet for a one-on-one interview over brunch. Wearing dark black sunglasses throughout, Jones, with concealed pupils, looks more like a character from the Lil' Orphan Annie comic strip than one of his menacing and intimidating characters. A native Texan, Jones charms with his Southwestern courtesies and genuinely ingratiating accent. He is impeccably dressed and groomed; his hair is cut close and his skin is aglow. Sitting at the table eating his Eggs Benedict and drinking his milk, Mr. Jones looks like the sensitive...
Perhaps more than any other writer of this century, Jean Genet celebrated what made him an outsider. An orphan, a homosexual, a thief and a prostitute, he spent the first half of his life in and out of jail. Genet gladly embraced society's definition of his sexuality as perverse, and then perversely glorified oppressive all-male environments: prison, brutal reform schools and the SS all received romanticized treatment in such landmark novels as Our Lady of Flowers and The Thief's Journal. What Genet lacked in moral acuity he made up for in artistic originality. His novels dealt with...