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...vocal authority and concert-stage charisma served Mui well when she made films. She lent coherence and gravity to such doomed characters as Fleur, the ghost lover of Leslie Cheung in Stanley Kwan's Rouge (for which she won the 1989 Hong Kong Film Award for best actress), and a Chinese spy in Eddie Fong's The Last Princess of Manchuria. In the latter, she played the real-life title character Kawashima Yoshiko, who spied for the Japanese during the occupation, and Mui was cold steel personified. She slapped men's faces, spat out her scorn at those who would...
...CHURCH STUDY GROUPS. Princeton professor Elaine Pagels won a National Book Award for her 1979 essay The Gnostic Gospels, which explored those alternative interpretations of the Christ story. The book was a surprise best seller, and three titles later, study groups at churches around the country are using Pagels' works to supplement more traditional Bible studies...
...unleashed his rants on Saturday Night Live, Monday Night Football and his own HBO series. On Jan. 26, Dennis Miller will launch a one-hour daily talk show on CNBC in prime time. TIME's Rebecca Winters finds out why the Emmy Award--winning comedian has changed his political stripes, whom he likes on SNL and what's got him all riled...
...should be of themselves, but I have absolutely no qualms about doing so. Thank you, dearest voters, for taking this opportunity to belittle the value of the Heisman Trophy once again and thank you for your continuing effort to reduce a new generation’s respect for the award and its winners...
...second half, whenever the Rutgers offense stalled in the Crimson zone, Pondexter would nail a jumper, no matter the defense or her place on the court. She demonstrated to the crowd 1,710 at Lavietes why she is a candidate for just about every player of the year award in the nation...