Word: vanessa
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...bait in Kurtz's plan is Charmian (called Charlie), an English actress whose haphazardly radical political involvements qualify her (á la Vanessa Redgrave) for the role Kurtz wants her to play. She is the rebellious middle-class type who could very well be swept away by a sensual young Palestinian and his burning desire to regain his homeland. Kurtz assigns Becker, an aging but still handsome Israeli war hero, to recruit Charlie and then teach her how to act in "the theater of deeds." A fictitious love affair must be fabricated between Charlie and the younger brother, whom...
Warden Jack Pursley posed the traditional question, and Brooks, 40, did indeed have some last words. He turned to his friend Vanessa Sapp, 27, and said he loved her, prayed aloud to Allah, turned again to Sapp and told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas...
...actress Vanessa Redgrave won in academy award for her performance in "Julia." She used her acceptance speech, tradition a forum for thanking colleagues and friends much as Marlon Brando had used his a few years before; to air for political sympathies with an approved and homeless people. When Brando refused his best actor award, he did so in support of the American Indians. When Redgrave got up to accept her statuette, she voiced her support for a terrorist organization, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and attacked "Zionist hooligans" for probating her appearance peacefully outside the auditorium...
Jane Fonda is not "raising her two daughters," because she has only one, Vanessa, by Roger Vadim. Her other child is Tom Hayden's son Troy...
...MOST JARRING PART of The Best Defense comes on page 168. The same Alan M. Dershowitz who challenged PLO advocate Vanessa Redgrave to debate "anything, anywhere, anytime", who let it be known that he would represent Claus von Bulow in the Danish socialite's appeal; who once disrupted a Kennedy School panel chaired by a fellow Law professor by rushing the podium and shouting that a Palestinian panelist was a "metaphysical cheerleader"--the Alan Dershowitz almost everyone at Harvard has read about--says he resents lawyers who go public. "I do not like to see cases tried in the press...