Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Diana Ross, 28, former lead singer of Motown's Supremes, now starring in the Billie Holiday movie biography, Lady Sings the Blues, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 28, Los Angeles public relations executive: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracee...
...Hollywood version of the Holiday story is no better. A spindly, cliché-ravaged tale of the sorrows of show biz, Lady Sings the Blues stars Diana Ross, former lead singer of the Supremes. That is a casting coup about as appropriate as signing up Sammy Davis Jr. to play Charlie Parker. It is eerie to watch and listen to Miss Ross, the princess of plastic soul, work her way through such songs as Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child. She has the phrasing, and the Holiday intonation. What she doesn't have is the passion. Her Billie...
Lady Sings the Blues has obviously been made to measure as Miss Ross's film debut, sort of an uptown, downbeat Funny Girl. Besides dispensing her styrene vocals, Miss Ross is also called upon to do a great deal of acting. In every reel, there is at least one sequence of turbulent anguish: Billie battling with her pusher; Billie in a padded cell; Billie watching her piano player (Richard Pryor) get beaten to death; Billie pleading for understanding and indulgence from her lover (Billy Dee Williams). Actress Ross attacks each of these crises in the same way-by raising...
...Ogden Ross skippered the Harvard B crew to a second place as Alex Webb provided good support as crew. After a shaky start that included two ninth places, skipper Steve Saudek and crewman Ted Kramarczky came back to take thirds and fourths in the remaining races...
...trouble is that half the cars on Western highways these days must have writers of one sort or other behind the wheel. There is getting to be rather a literary traffic tangle in which only the best drivers-Joan Didion on the Los Angeles freeways, Ross Macdonald in the canyons, Larry McMurtry on the asphalt-beribboned deserts-can make the trip worth...