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Hollywood in the '30s and '40s is the novel's principal setting, though the ramified and exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality...
Angela Bassett's performance as Tina Turner was one of the year's finest dramatic performances. The character demanded an more than-20 years evolution in Ms. Turner's life. At the beginning of the movie she portrays the unsophisticated and naive Anaa Mae, who eagerly allows herself to be taken under Ike's wing. As the film progresses, Bassett flawlessly displays Turner's blossoming performances-consciousness and ultimately her development into a self-confident woman who knows her true worth as both a musician and a human being. At different stages in her life, Turner is supposed to look...
Confusion among students, many of whom areinexperienced with finance, is compounded by thefact that the loans, once they are granted, aregranted, are often sold to secondary markets suchas Sallie Mae or Nellie Mae within a day. shesays. These sales can leave students confused asto whom actually owns their loans...
Currently, the private Student Loan Marketing Association, or Sallie Mae, services student loans, acting as an intermediary between the federal government and student recipients of federally guaranteed or subsidized student loans...
Proponents of the direct lending plan say that it would simplify things for students and save money by reducing the default rate and cutting out the profit now made by Sallie Mae and commercial banks...