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- <title>
- May 09, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 09, 1994 Nelson Mandela
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
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- <body>
- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
- </p>
- <p>Gritty Family Values
- </p>
- <p> In his new Fox sitcom South Central, LARENZ TATE plays a sexy,
- rebellious but goodhearted inner-city teenager. The show, which
- depicts the struggles of a close-knit family in the riot-torn
- L.A. neighborhood, is a target for critics who complain that
- it portrays the community too harshly. But Tate, who is also
- currently starring in the film comedy The Inkwell, disagrees.
- "There are real family values in this show," he says. "And being
- quote-unquote gritty on TV is actually a very unique thing."
- </p>
- <p>Reconstructing Keanu
- </p>
- <p> By next semester, students taking Films of KEANU REEVES (a course
- offered by a California art college) will have startling new
- images of the young actor to deconstruct. This summer he will
- assume the role of action hero in Speed--an unexpected career
- move for the star of the somber My Own Private Idaho. In the
- fall he goes futuristic in Johnny Mnemonic. Would Reeves like
- to reflect on these roles in academia? "I hope they all learn
- something," he says of the students enrolled in the class. "I
- wouldn't seek it out."
- </p>
- <p>How to Marry a Millionaire
- </p>
- <p> Had President Clinton not appointed her the U.S. Ambassador
- to France, PAMELA HARRIMAN might have considered joining the
- staff at Cosmopolitan. As a new, unauthorized biography of the
- Washington society doyenne details, Harriman has devoted most
- of her womanhood to expertly attracting enormously wealthy and
- powerful men. Life of the Party, by TIME International contributor
- Christopher Ogden, discusses not only Harriman's courtships
- with husbands Randolph Churchill, Leland Hayward and Averell
- Harriman ("Comforted and stimulated by the statesman, she found
- irresistible the invitation to spend the night under his down
- coverlet"), but also her affairs with Edward R. Murrow and Italian
- auto mogul Gianni Agnelli. There is even reference to a dalliance
- with Frank Sinatra, who comforted the socialite after Hayward's
- death. Harriman had originally assigned Ogden to write an authorized
- account of her life, but she backed out of their arrangement
- when she realized how heavily that book would have focused on
- her romantic pursuits. "Her life was defined by men," says the
- author. "You can't tell the Pamela Harriman story without talking
- about them."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
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- <p> Chic young celebrities seem to define friendship more broadly
- than the less soigne. Last week the New York Post ran photos
- of Julia Roberts looking dreamily into the eyes of--and dancing,
- hugging and amorously holding hands with--grungy heartthrob
- actor Ethan Hawke. Roberts' spokeswoman insisted that the two
- were "friends, just friends." She made the same claim just days
- before Roberts married Lyle Lovett. Lovett, meanwhile, appears
- on the cover of this month's Esquire, and the issue contains
- a long article that savvily declares how happy the couple's
- marriage is.
- </p>
- <p> In seemingly more auspicious celebrity-coupling news: Whoopi
- Goldberg, healed from her Ted Danson breakup, announced on Larry
- King Live that she is engaged. The new man in her life is Lyle
- Trachtenberg, a representative for a filmworkers' union, whom
- she met on the set of her forthcoming Corrina, Corrina.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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