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What turns an actress on? If you're Natasha Richardson, scion of one of Britain's most famous acting families (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave) and trying to carve your own niche on the stage, playing Sally Bowles in a radically revamped version of Cabaret is one sure way. Deciding how to follow up that Tony-winning turn, however, is a tougher call. Richardson twice turned down an offer to join the four-person Broadway cast of Patrick Marber's hit London play Closer. Asked a third time, she thought it over for a weekend and agreed--not because the role...
...Ethel Rosenberg or Caryl Chessman were neither rich nor powerful, and gained their status as a consequence of their trials, Cohen says. More recently, capital punishment was pre-emptively rejected in the O.J. Simpson case. But Capano had no legendary gridiron past, and a wholly unpleasant present. Although the scion of a wealthy real estate family and a mover among Delaware's elite, "at no point in the story did he present himself as an appealing human being," says Cohen. "People were outraged by the viciousness of the crime and the underlying relationships" -- which involved not only the three-year...
...Young emits a serene, reflective demeanor as he recalls his almost four score years in America. Over the years, his knowledge of the history and experiences of many Armenian immigrants has made him the scion of the Armenian-American community in the Northeast...
...swoon response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly good warrior-king for the cute but feckless Paris. Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-'n'-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love, it's the penniless no-account who makes the girls scream--and did anyone see Titanic...
...scion of a noble Arab family that traced its roots back to the prophet Muhammad, Hussein ascended to the Hashemite throne in 1952 at the tender age of 16 -- having already survived one assassin's bullet, which deflected off a medal he'd been wearing on his chest...