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Gibson may not have thought herself a winner. Her life meandered after she gave up amateur tennis in 1958. Her marriage failed. Her illness has all but robbed her of speech. All the blinds are lowered at her home. But through a gap, the doorbell brings a momentary glimpse of a tall figure in khakis, refusing reply and vanishing into darkness. A certain unintended wistfulness haunts the title of her autobiography, I Always Wanted to Be Somebody. She was. But in East Orange, there is a woman who lives in an apartment whom nobody sees. She used to be somebody...
...Christopher, TV designer; Emmy winner for The Academy Awards. Each state contributes one sculpted tree to surround the chamber. The eagle with shield is a giant, 24-ft. replica of the one that overlooked the original Senate...
DIVORCING. GEENA DAVIS, 40, Amazonian Oscar winner; and RENNY HARLIN, 38, Finnish filmmaker who directed her in such flops as Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight; in Los Angeles...
...Anse, Grenada. A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice. He terrorized his opponents with his henchmen, the Mongoose Gang; traveled to the U.N. to expound on UFOs; and once visited London to judge a Miss World contest (the winner, no surprise, was Miss Grenada...
...compelling-repelling way, mordantly funny--imagine an atrocity tale told with Noel Coward insouciance. But the most interesting part of the film comes after it's over. That's when the real knives come out. At the Sundance Film Festival, where this pitch-black comedy was an award winner, LaBute was widely rebuked by the sensitivity patrol. After a Manhattan screening, a male publicist was punched. Well, he was a guy. Probably deserved...