Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ross Stagner Pleasant Ridge, Mich...
Divorced. Diana Ross, 32, slinky ex-Supreme who became a Motown superstar and Oscar-nominated actress (Lady Sings the Blues); and Robert Silberstein, 31, a manager for several rock stars though never for Ross; after six years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...local real estate tax system by dropping the 4% discount offered to those who pay early. Tax delinquencies had reached nearly $37,000 last year-about 12% of this year's proposed $298,000 budget-and some thought the town could ill afford the discounts. Said Selectman Roderick Ross: "For years we've been giving away $6,000 and that's putting us in a hole...
...able to achieve the delicate, necessary dynamic. Indeed, most directors opt for one of the goals--usually that of producing an entertaining film--and address the other two only cursorily, if at all; while entertaining, the results of such efforts are little more than loosely-based fictional treatments. Diana Ross was wonderful to watch and hear in Lady Sings the Blues, but the character bore only a slight resemblance to Billie Holliday. And the makers of Night and Day indulged in a luxurious piece of miscasting when they selected strapping sex symbol Cary Grant to star as a wimpish, homosexual...
...1890s, the story focuses on Harry Brown Jr., a black hoofer played with high-stepping panache by Glynn Turman. Dreaming of fame on the minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...