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DIED. NYREE DAWN PORTER, 61, British actress who won fame in the late 1960s as Irene in the 26-part BBC adaptation of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga; in London. Born in New Zealand, she was given the Maori name Ngaire ("heart-shaped flower"), pronounced...
...Media: Winners (it's the ratings, stupid A news saga always draws audiences, even when it refuses to behave like the sort of ultimatum-driven geopolitical showdown producers crave. Like the legislators, the media displayed uncharacteristic patience in refraining from second-guessing the White House when the chips were down...
...residential neighborhood in Minneapolis. Strapped to her chest in a Baby Bjorn carrier is Azure, the infant daughter whom the author, 46, bore in early January to an Ojibwe father whose identity she is keeping to herself. Recognizing that all her books are parts of a larger saga eased her mind, she says, about repeating herself. "I stopped being concerned about whether the same characters show up or not. I really don't have a choice, anyway. If they show up, they have to show...
Freedom's Daughters (Scribner; 460 pages; $30) weaves the stories of neglected figures like Pauli Murray, organizer of the first sit-ins in Washington during the 1940s, and Gloria Richardson, the firebrand of the struggle in Cambridge, Md., during the 1960s, into a seamless saga of inspiring protest. Olson's subjects had to battle not only white supremacy but also the chauvinism of male civil rights leaders. As she writes, black women in the movement "felt torn between loyalty to their race and loyalty to their sex. Most of them chose race, insisting that their own liberation could...
Demme, who has seen GoodFellas a few times, pours pizazz all over the project to keep the 30-year saga moving. In Johnny Depp he has a star who can commandeer the camera, however flimsy George's motives are. Depp gets some smart support from Paul Reubens as the world's friendliest, queeniest middleman, and Bobcat Goldthwaite as a chemist floored by the quality of the product ("I can't feel my face!"). But painting the bigger picture is tough work. Blow works for a scene or two, then stalls. That's the nature of a story that is episodic...