Word: ross
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...Diana Ross and Brandy. It sounds like the start of a movie pitch. Turns out, it's a pitch that worked: the two singers, one a legend and the other a Gen-Y sensation, are co-starring in the dramatic TV movie Double Platinum, airing this Sunday...
Distractions, distractions. Everything in Diana Ross's midtown Manhattan apartment vies for your attention: a zebra-patterned couch, brightly colored Warhol portraits of Ross, a table full of black panther statuettes, a large gold Hindu figurine. One thing holds your focus: Ross herself. The 55-year-old Motown great looks fabulous--slim, smiling, sexy. She seems as breezily radiant as she ever was, flipping back her wavy black hair after every other sentence. One wonders why it took so long for the Oscar-nominated star of such big-screen films as Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the TV movie...
...Ross says she was just looking for a quality script. In fact, after agreeing to co-star with Brandy in Double Platinum--she liked the younger woman's spirit--she nearly pulled out after giving her character's dialogue a once-over. Says Ross: "So I asked the director [Robert Allan Ackerman], 'Will you allow me to improvise?' And he was very open to that." (Ross and Brandy both say they ad-libbed much of their dialogue.) Ross also made one more request: she wanted the script's setting moved from Los Angeles to New York City so she could...
Ironically, Platinum is about a singer (played by Ross) who abandons her family for stardom. "A lot of people are wondering if the part she's playing is autobiographical," says Ross's daughter Rhonda,who is also an actress. "This is really the antistory of her life, the opposite of an autobiography. She made completely different choices than her character...
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has delineated five stages of reaction to death, from denial to acceptance, but in America there is a sixth: litigation. Just days after the Columbine shootings, the father of Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain...