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...played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death in 1947. Wong had played Fu Manchu's daughter in 1931, but the following year, when MGM made The Mask of Fu Manchu, that role went to caucasian Myrna Loy, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Jerry Lewis, Alec Guinness, Shirley MacLaine all applied Oriental makeup for mainstream movies. It wasn't until the late 60s, when Americans were seeing East Asians on their TV screens every night, that Hollywood finally renounced this sorry tendency...
...turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now--here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage--fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations." The studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that...
...spent her career playing unstrung women on the verge, like the despairing mom in About a Boy. "I find myself falling into a niche," says Collette. "I want to expand it." As Rose in In Her Shoes, with CAMERON DIAZ, left, who plays her pretty but flaky sister, and SHIRLEY MACLAINE, her long-lost grandmother, Collette starts out frumpy, overworked and overweight (she gained 25 lbs. for the role) but eventually blossoms. Says Collette: "Her name, Rose, says...
...DIED. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80, trailblazing Congresswoman and candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination; in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first black woman to sit in Congress, she championed such concerns of her underprivileged Brooklyn constituency as day-care funding and minimum wages for domestic workers. Describing herself as "unbought and unbossed," she criticized Congress as being run by "a small group of old men" and protested the "petrified" seniority system that initially placed her on the Agriculture Committee...
...It’s a lot of fun,” says junior tri-captain Shirley Veronica Cardona when asked about the long road trips. “Sometimes we go overnight, and it’s fun to stay in hotels. It’s like a mini vacation, until we have to cheer in the cold the next morning...