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...think she's very pretty," says poor young Pip of the slightly older Estella. "I think she's very proud." Extraordinarily pretty and proudly defiant: that was the indelible first impression the 17-year-old Jean Simmons made on moviegoers in David Lean's Great Expectations in 1946, at the beginning of a long, full career that lasted from her early teens to her death on Jan. 22 at 80, in Santa Monica, Calif., of lung cancer. The actress's screen impact in her early flush of stardom could also be defined by another pair of clashing adjectives that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Simmons: Portrait of a Complicated Lady | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...Brooke Shields three decades later) in Frank Launder's The Blue Lagoon, Simmons went to Hollywood and stayed there. Her first of four movies for Hughes was her best: Otto Preminger's Angel Face (1952), essentially a feature-length rendition of the Ophelia mad scene. As Diane, a young Englishwoman in Southern California, she's in hysterics when Mitchum first sees her (they exchange hard slaps); later she toys portentously with chess pieces and glowers at us out of a fetal position. By the end Diane has been the agent of two gruesome car crashes and four deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Simmons: Portrait of a Complicated Lady | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...hurt beyond words, but I believe in him,' she'd get Mother Teresa status and it would help him with his biggest problem, which is the credibility,'' says Sitrick. This could be tough, however, since two new books, one of which is by Edwards' former aide Andrew Young, a.k.a. the guy who originally claimed to be Quinn's dad, cast both Edwardses in a bad light, and Elizabeth may not want to put herself out there to face uncomfortable questions. (See the top 10 political gaffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can John Edwards' Dreadful Image Be Rehabilitated? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

Read "John Edwards Sex Tape with Rielle Hunter Alleged in Andrew Young Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can John Edwards' Dreadful Image Be Rehabilitated? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...Indeed, the profile of the average French board member painted by the Ernst & Young report seems frozen in time: the person is typically a 59-year-old male from one of France's élite graduate schools. He probably serves on more than one board. (French law permits people to hold seats on up to five companies' boards at the same time.) French boardrooms are far less diverse than those in other nations; a survey last month by the independent Politico-Economic Observatory of Capitalistic Structures (PEOCS) indicates that the concentration of business power is greater in France than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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