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Reynolds Price is the author of more than 30 books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award...
Singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris has recorded since 1967. Her latest album, Red Dirt Girl, earned her a 10th Grammy Award...
Never had we imagined that the smile could get any bigger. But it did last March, on Oscar night. She accepted her award and the lips parted from ear to ear, from sea to shining sea, even as her memory grew dim. In her now infamous, rambling, exuberant, makes-for-great-television acceptance speech, she unfortunately failed to thank, among others, the real Erin Brockovich, the legal eagle whose fight for justice had inspired the movie that brought the star to the podium. Not even the desperate time signals from orchestra conductor Bill Conti could slow her down...
Julia Roberts is America's Best movie star not because she is good in good movies--heck, Tom Hanks can do that--but because she is so popular in mediocre ones. Her every-award-winning role in Erin Brockovich was an aberration. Roberts typically fronts airy romantic comedies or treacly melodramas that might go direct to video if she weren't in them. And still they are hits. People go to see Roberts despite her films, happy to pay for the privilege of being in her virtual presence. They want what she's got--what, seemingly, she is. No matter...
Through design or instinct, Roberts cannily feeds her goddess-next-door image. She ladles her charm onto David Letterman, and the cynic morphs into a swain. She was chattily charismatic picking up her laurels at the Golden Globes and the Oscars; if there were an award for Best Acceptance Speech, she'd win that...