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...sight of India's finest actor, Aamir Khan, outfitted for his latest role as a 19th century anti-British mutineer with shoulder-length hair and a handlebar moustache, jogging with the futuristic metallic torch, was undeniably arresting. The newspapers went front page with pictures of an equally unlikely torchbearer?actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, kitted out in a white tracksuit, giggling with her boyfriend, actor Vivek Oberoi. It was a perplexing spectacle. Watching the decidedly un-Olympian figure of former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev paunchily puffing his way past New Delhi's Red Fort, I found myself...
...bare facts: Phyllis Adams Kirkland Jenkins was born into privilege on the East Side of Manhattan in 1923; came of age in a dazzling period for New York society; trod the boards as a young actress; reported on the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis; helped pioneer the daytime talk show; married a handsome actor and then an even handsomer designer of sets for stage and screen; gave unstintingly to Amnesty International and other worthy charities; left behind a loving, lovely family and a host of bereft friends...
...life case of fatal attraction. At a preliminary hearing, the Chicago star read aloud from letters sent by her alleged stalker, Dawnette Knight. One note promised "to slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored a crush on Douglas and was upset by a tabloid story claiming that Zeta-Jones was cheating on him. After facing the couple...
...womanhood is a continuum, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on one end and Jessica Simpson on the other, Joan Allen occupies a sparsely populated middle position: the dignified babe. It's a precarious perch, and not just because it seems such an oxymoron. It's dangerous, at least for an actress, because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with you. Or rather it knows exactly what to do with you: you play the wife. The nice but uptight wife...
...claustrophobic production can knock the air out of you. But when Hedda declares, "I can do what I want, and that is never going to change," there is a thrill in seeing an individual pitted so powerfully against the limitations of her age - and the feline grace of an actress at full stretch. That's worth standing...