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- <title>
- Nov. 08, 1993: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 08, 1993 Cloning Humans
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 97
- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <body>
- <p>Don't Bother Comparing...
- </p>
- <p> SARITA CHOUDHURY defines the show-business out-of-the-ordinary--she's an incomparably beautiful non-blond who chooses to
- appear only in incomparably unconventional films: the star of
- last year's Mississippi Masala returns to the screen this week
- in her second film, Wild West, the not exactly cliched story
- of a group of Pakistani twentysomethings who dream of starting
- a country-and-western band. Next month Sarita will turn up in
- the surreal epic House of the Spirits. But what may turn out
- to be her most unusual project is Wasteland, a film Sarita succinctly
- describes as a "nonlinear, futuristic environmental-disaster
- movie."
- </p>
- <p>Feted, Clint Meets Klimt
- </p>
- <p> To most moviegoers, CLINT EASTWOOD is the man on the winning
- side of a .357 Magnum, but intellectuals admire him as an auteur.
- This phenomenon reached its apotheosis last week when New York
- City's Museum of Modern Art honored the Dirty Harry star; one
- speaker even invoked Albert Camus. What, though, will eggheads
- think of Clint's next possible role--in the film of the profoundly
- middlebrow The Bridges of Madison County?
- </p>
- <p>Baby Buster Bonnie Raitt
- </p>
- <p> Behind the long hair, the fringe jacket and all the melancholy,
- SHERYL CROW has some things most hippie-ish singer-songwriters
- lack: a healthy sense of irony and just the right dose of arty
- affectation. On her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club, the
- former schoolteacher delivers plenty of strained love and alienation
- but still manages to churn out lyrics like, "Gotta get a TV
- set for my car/ Tonite's the battle of the network stars." Her
- sound may be reminiscent of Bonnie Raitt, but her soul is pure
- slacker. "You go through a weird period in your early 20s when
- you lose your sense of humor," says Sheryl, 30. "I've got mine
- back." The Missouri native composed her first tune at 13 and
- went on to write songs that were eventually covered by Eric
- Clapton and Wynonna Judd. But there have been career low points:
- Sheryl sang backup for Foreigner.
- </p>
- <p>Seen & Heard
- </p>
- <p> Rumormongers are apparently suffering from a collective case
- of bad karma. The week in gossip debunked:
- </p>
- <p> Julia Roberts is not pregnant. London tabloid reports that the
- newlywed would become a mom in April were immediately denied
- by Roberts' publicist, who says the stork has absolutely no
- plans to visit Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Lovett. Also unpregnant, Louise
- Brooks-coiffed supermodel Linda Evangelista, despite rumors
- that she is bearing boyish actor Kyle MacLachlan's love child.
- </p>
- <p> Sean Connery is not suffering from cancer and is not dead. The
- sexagenarian sex symbol appeared on Late Show with David Letterman
- to notify the world that contrary to newspaper accounts he is
- well, and contrary to recent outlandish speculation he is alive.
- </p>
- <p> And, remarkably, Shannen Doherty is not estranged from brand-new
- husband Ashley Hamilton, as columnists have suggested.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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