Word: vanessa
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...your client's sitcom contract. Then there's CHER. Just when folks were thinking of her as the late Congressman's ex, Bob Mackie and that hat reminded us why she's famous. Mothers were also big winners this year. MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast to Titanic director Jim Cameron's "King of the World" shtick. There were losers too, of course. Poor Joan Rivers, broadcasting live, didn't recognize Rosa Parks, Tyra Banks or Mercedes...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
QUESTION: Compared with other generations of British actors, has the '60s generation of actors (Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) been slighted in the awarding of knighthoods...
...Actors nowadays don't do too badly. When Olivier got a knighthood, it was considered almost unknown. Now, there's almost one a year. [But many are] Shakespearian actors, and you very rarely see them on film. By the way, Vanessa Redgrave, it is commonly understood, has turned it down...
Numerous columnists have written that without the services of All-American forwards Kristin Folkl and Vanessa Nygaard, Stanford was doomed before the start of the game. Harvard just happened to be in the right place at the right time--how else could one explain Stanford losing to "Harvard and little Suzie Miller" as one writer...