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Child actors have been stealing scenes and hearts at least since Jackie Coogan teamed with Charlie Chaplin in the 1921 weepy The Kid. For three years in the '30s, Shirley Temple was Hollywood's biggest box-office star; she was just 6 when the Motion Picture Academy voted her a special Oscar. Since then, the Academy has honored 16 actors under 14 with nominations or Oscars. Keisha Castle-Hughes, 14, the Maori charmer of Whale Rider, was cited last year. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) and Anna Paquin (The Piano) won supporting-actress Oscars on their first acting jobs. Standards...
...great actresses who never won an Oscar, Barbara Stanwyck had an intelligence and fire that lasered through all her roles. She's best as a predator on the make but showed her range in this 1937 sudser about a back-street woman who embarrasses her daughter (Anne Shirley) as the girl rises in society.We won't describe the ending, except to say that if Stanwyck doesn't make you cry, we would be tempted to refund your money--to help pay for a heart transplant...
Perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science is Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The first African-American woman at M.I.T. to get a Ph.D.--in theoretical physics in 1973--Jackson knows a thing or two about overcoming discrimination. Shot at and spit upon by whites while a college student, she went on to do research at Fermilab and Bell Labs. In 1995 she became chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in 2003 was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general-scientific society...
...will be referring to over the next few years in the service of winning my much-deserved Oscar. Frankly, they should have given me one simply for being born, but unfortunately for me Terms of Endearment came out that year, and I’ve got nothing on Shirley MacLaine...
...their 700-word missive, Presidents Susan Hockfield of MIT, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton, and John Hennessy of Stanford stopped short of criticizing Summers directly, but said that much of the uproar generated by Summers’ controversial remarks last month “has had the untoward effect of shifting the focus of the debate to history rather than to the future...