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...think she's very pretty," says poor young Pip of the slightly older Estella. "I think she's very proud." Extraordinarily pretty and proudly defiant: that was the indelible first impression the 17-year-old Jean Simmons made on moviegoers in David Lean's Great Expectations in 1946, at the beginning of a long, full career that lasted from her early teens to her death on Jan. 22 at 80, in Santa Monica, Calif., of lung cancer. The actress's screen impact in her early flush of stardom could also be defined by another pair of clashing adjectives that...
...singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She divorced Brooks in 1977, struggled with alcoholism in the '80s. She had summed up her two marriages by observing that "when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy [Granger] would say, 'I just want you to be pretty.' And when I wanted to cook, Richard would say, 'Forget the cooking. You've been trained to act - so act!' " So act she kept doing, with skill and delicacy and diminished visibility...
...time to take advantage of all that Harvard has to offer, which, suffice it to say, includes a lot of classes you just won't find anywhere else. So we're kicking off our shopping week feature with a choice selection—but by no means a conclusive list—of some of the most interesting, obscure, and unique classes offered this semester at Harvard...
Though not even two decades have passed since the Soviet state collapsed in 1991, the Orthodox Russians who came to France to flee communism say they're starting to view Moscow with mistrust again. The reason: the recent move by Russia to take control of a dazzling Orthodox cathedral built in Nice during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, which some opponents say is part a wider, nationalistic power play by Moscow to regain symbols of Russia's historical, cultural and religious grandeur abroad...
Image consultants and p.r. managers, who are professionally optimistic, say it's possible for him to rehabilitate his public image, but it won't be easy. First up, he has to come totally clean, and he has to do so in front of a camera. On Jan. 21, just shy of Quinn Hunter's second birthday, Edwards finally issued a statement that copped to his being her father. "It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter, and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me," the press release said. Nuh-uh. For a doozy...