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...tally, which includes Massachusetts Governor Jane M. Swift, Colin Powell’s daughter and actress Ashley Judd, project an image of a diverse alumnae base...
...July wore Bermuda shorts. ANNETTE BENING smoldered through the continent's record heat wave in a fur stole and long gloves. She was in Budapest and London to film Being Julia, an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. The American Beauty star says she plays "a theater actress in London in 1938 who falls apart and finds herself" while cheating on her husband, played by Jeremy Irons. Bening says she was concentrating too hard to mind "a few hot moments." Perhaps when you're married to Warren Beatty, you're always cool...
Thurman waited nine long years for the chance to be brutalized onscreen. After getting a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Pulp Fiction in 1994, she performed with varying degrees of conviction in stiff period pieces (A Month by the Lake, The Golden Bowl), little-seen indies (Tape, Chelsea Walls) and a few conspicuously horrible blockbusters (Batman & Robin, The Avengers). "I never built a niche for myself," says Thurman a bit defensively. "Some of that was because I didn't want the niches I could have had--the romantic heroine, the victim, the girl who needs to be rescued...
...Tarantino did get a script done and started preproduction, but by then Thurman was pregnant with her son Roan, now 20 months. (Thurman and Hawke also have a daughter Maya Ray, 5.) Tarantino, who likes to use nuclear hyperbole when mere exaggeration would do, says replacing Thurman with another actress was out of the question. "Would Sergio Leone have replaced Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars? Would von Sternberg have replaced Dietrich in Morocco?" he asks. "I knew how good she was going to be in this movie, so we waited...
...generating a character amid all the physical mayhem. Tarantino tried to guide her performance with an avalanche of Hong Kong cinema and female-samurai movies, but, says Thurman: "As much as he might have wanted me to see stuff, I wanted to make something new." So director and actress argued almost daily about just how to portray the Bride, with Thurman lobbying (often successfully) for everything from wardrobe changes to dialogue rewrites. "Quentin's actually kind of great to argue with," says Thurman. "He's a tough character, but he's not stupid, and he grants it when you score...