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...success by the Globe even over the original 1971 production, which starred the legendary Alan Bates. Two years ago, Martin was so successful with the Huntington’s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler that the show was taken to Broadway, where the same lead actress won a Tony. With Hedda Gabler, Martin managed to turn a familiar script into a more effective telling, not altering the essential strains of the classic story, but drawing them out in subtler, more powerful ways. The Boston Globe called the production “crisp and potent...
...DIED. JAN MINER, 86, versatile stage and film actress best known for her role as Madge the Manicurist in Palmolive commercials from 1966 to 1992; in Bethel, Connecticut. In the ads, the wise-cracking Madge would praise the gentleness of the dish detergent to a customer?who would invariably react in shock when informed that her hands were soaking...
...Celeste Holm for Falun Gong In 2002, the Academy Award-winning actress (for 1947's Gentleman's Agreement) organized a petition calling for the release from a Chinese prison of her acupuncturist, Dr. Teng Chuyan, a member of the Falun Gong spiritual group. "The only choice for a practitioner [of Falun Gong] given by the Chinese government," Holm wrote, "is between death or living-death...
...Angelina Jolie for Cambodia's forests The Tomb Raider actress is donating 300 cows to impoverished farmers to wean them off logging and hunting. Two years ago, Jolie adopted a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage...
...speak of any personal tragedy - a question about his youth yields only a curt pointer back to the movie. "My childhood had no exile, no struggle, no trauma like the Behranis," he says. Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of a Kenyan-Indian doctor and an English actress, in Yorkshire. In a 1989 Daily Express interview, he said that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow him to become anyone he wanted...