Word: althea
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...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...
...streets of East Orange, no one knows where Gibson lives. "Althea who?" is a common response. "You mean the great track star?" says one man. In city hall, behind the counter at the Department of Property and Taxation, the clerk recognizes her name ("Oh, we know exactly who she is") but says, "Are you sure she hasn't passed? I could have sworn I heard she passed...
...missing among the living champions gathered for the extravaganza. Andre Agassi's supposed snub of the opening ceremony was much easier to headline. But Gibson's absence was heart-wrenching. The new stadium was named for a man who broke race barriers in the '60s and '70s. Althea Gibson broke race barriers in the '50s: she was the first black person to win the French Open, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. And on the day the new stadium opened, she turned...
...Cobain and primal scream of the rock band Hole, she was the id other rockers warmed their instruments against. This year she's Audrey Hepburn. O.K., not quite. But for her sizable performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which she played Flynt's formidable and doomed wife Althea, a druggy ex-stripper, Love won the New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Supporting Actress. Last month the same woman who used to apply lipstick the way toddlers mash crayons was demurely turned out for the Oscars in a chiffon Versace gown. It was the most thorough transformation...
...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...