Word: starring
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...trial want for drama. Bakker was led away for psychiatric evaluation, one witness collapsed, and Hurricane Hugo interrupted the proceedings. The usual details emerged about Bakker's lavish spending habits (motorized bedroom draperies, a $500 shower curtain). The prosecution's star witness turned out to be Bakker himself. Jurors endured eight hours of videotape showing his histrionic money pitches and then heard the ex-preacher describe himself on the witness stand as a "minister of the gospel," not a "professional businessman...
...East Germany's star athletes, two-time Olympic skating champion Katarina Witt, said in Munich yesterday that her government must think about the causes for the exodus and that changes must be considered...
Shevardnadze's new flexibility on Star Wars was in part offset by his warning that the Kremlin would abrogate a future START treaty if the U.S. goes too far with SDI testing. And the Senate would certainly want to review any deal on Star Wars as part of a START ratification process. "The Soviets made a constructive step which may facilitate negotiations," concludes House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Dante Fascell. "But it only puts off the day of reckoning...
...Vanessa Redgrave entered the world, her father Michael Redgrave was playing Laertes opposite Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at London's Old Vic Theater. During the curtain call, Olivier gestured for silence and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a star is born. Laertes has a daughter." Olivier probably thought he was being gracious rather than oracular. But the man generally acknowledged as the greatest actor of his age in the English- speaking world proved as inspired in his fortune-telling as in his art: the infant born on Jan. 30, 1937, has ripened into the greatest actress in the English-speaking...
Talent and stubborn individuality are Redgrave family legacies. The tradition of performing reaches back to her grandparents and includes her father, her mother Rachel Kempson, brother Corin, 50, and sister Lynn, 46 -- plus, now, Vanessa's film-star daughters Natasha Richardson, 26 (Patty Hearst), and Joely Richardson, 24 (Drowning by Numbers). In Vanessa's generation, the clan paid a steep emotional price. Says Lynn: "All families are peculiar in some way, but ours was extraordinary, a volatile, emotional and passionate mix, which probably helped us to be good actors. My parents never got us up in the morning or picked...