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- Feb. 28, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 28, 1994 Ministry of Rage:Louis Farrakhan
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 69
- By Ginia Bellafante
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- <p>MOONLIGHTING AT THE MIKE
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- <p> When she began studying opera, her friend Orson Welles told
- her to stick with acting. When she appeared in the movie musical
- At Long Last Love, no one went to see it. And when she sang
- My Funny Valentine during a football game at a Los Angeles high
- school, a heckler stood up and shouted, "Hey, just take it off!"
- Now, emotionally fortified by five years of psychotherapy, Cybill
- Shepherd is ready to face the microphone again. "In another
- life I'll be an opera singer. It's a miracle that I keep this
- up," says the struggling chanteuse. And yet last week she graced
- the Tonight show stage to sing The Power of Love, and next month
- she will perform a full 90-minute radio concert for the BBC.
- And if she doesn't turn out to be the next Edith Piaf? Fear
- not; CBS has slated Shepherd to star as an affluent single mom
- in an upcoming sitcom.
- </p>
- <p>BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
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- <p> Tearing up the L.A. stage as Norma Desmond, the unhinged Hollywood
- discard in Sunset Boulevard, Glenn Close has won the kind of
- reviews actresses dream of. Meanwhile, playing the same role
- in the original London production of the musical, Patti LuPone
- has felt distinctly unappreciated. Last week came the ultimate
- blow for LuPone. Though she had been promised the role when
- the show opens on Broadway this fall, producers announced they
- were casting Close. It will cost them millions to buy the devastated
- LuPone out of her contract.
- </p>
- <p>FUR'S FOE, EXPOSED
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- <p> Famously p.c. and pet-friendly, Kim Basinger has dined on tempeh
- scallopini and proclaimed that "a nation is only as strong as
- it treats its animals." Now the impassioned Mrs. Alec Baldwin
- has proved her commitment to the cause by posing nude for an
- antifur ad that will appear in four languages on billboards
- in Europe.
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
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- <p> He is Geraldo's dream guest: the publicist who admitted to a
- "sexual relationship" with the shoes of his former employer,
- Marla Maples Trump. After a comically lurid trial, a jury found
- foot fetishist Chuck Jones guilty of stealing dozens of Mrs.
- Trump's pumps and boots.
- </p>
- <p> ABC believes that what the American public really wants is more
- Diane Sawyer. Warding off rival network suitors, ABC renewed
- Sawyer's contract for a reported $7 million a year. (That puts
- her some $5 million ahead of Tom Brokaw.) While still co-anchoring
- PrimeTime Live, she will contribute to Turning Point and Day
- One.
- </p>
- <p> Like ex-stand-up comic Jerry Seinfeld, ex-stand-up comic Paul
- Reiser stars in a sitcom in which grave moral dilemmas arise
- when characters retrieve the wrong shirt at the laundry. Now,
- like Jerry, the Mad About You star will pen a book of observational
- humor. Next will he court a co-ed named Shoshana?
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