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Dec. 27, 1993: People
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 85
By Ginia Bellafante
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<p>TO THE INFOMERCIAL HIGHWAY!
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<p> What will become of her? SHANNEN DOHERTY, 22, TV's most poisonous
faux adolescent, isn't going to be part of the Beverly Hills
90210 family next season. Producers of the hit teen show have
reportedly refused to renew the insatiable party girl's contract.
How could they? 90210 producer Aaron Spelling is offering only
a "no comment" on the alleged dismissal of Mrs. Ashley Hamilton.
But we can assume her tabloidy misbehavior, on set and off,
was no longer worth its weight in publicity.
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<p>CONQUISTADOR
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<p> Spanish actor ANTONIO BANDERAS may struggle with English, but
he seems well versed in the language of fame, and today that's
spoken in the dialect of anti-fame: "I don't want to be a star,"
he says. "Stars always play themselves. I want to play characters."
But avoiding celebrity will soon be difficult for the star of
the art-house hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
and the man whose Mastroianni-circa-1960 sexiness bedazzled
Madonna in Truth or Dare. Banderas will begin shooting Interview
with the Vampire with Tom Cruise, and he appears as Tom Hanks'
lover in Philadelphia. Early next year he falls into the arms
of Winona Ryder in the epic The House of the Spirits. As Banderas
shuns fame, his House character shuns money. "Today there is
no one like him," says the liquid-eyed Iberian. "There are no
countries anymore, just banks."
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<p>NOT A BLUE CHRISTMAS
</p>
<p> With Harry Connick Jr. and two-thirds of Wilson Phillips serving
up wholesome collections of holiday song this year, you won't
need those old Bing Crosby Christmas records. Even rapper LUTHER
CAMPBELL--of 2 Live Crew and obscenity fame--is in Der Bingle
mode, offering Christmas at Luke's House, a Yuletide R.-and-B.
album. Campbell swears the disk is "clean because Christmas
is a family time, a holy time."
</p>
<p>SEEN & HEARD
</p>
<p> A certain Massachusetts Senator may need to be reminded that
while his first name is Ted, his last name isn't Danson. Wearing
a Barney costume, TED KENNEDY entertained guests at his annual
Christmas party with the sort of ribaldry befitting a Friars
Club gathering. When his wife Victoria, playing straight man,
mentioned screws floating in space during the Hubble telescope
repair mission, Senator Kennedy riposted, "Floating screw...that's what people used to call me." One Barney-related line:
"They don't call me Tyrannosaurus sex for nothing!"
</p>
<p> America had stopped expecting a book from ANITA HILL, the law
professor who captivated the country during a single weekend
in the fall of 1991. But Hill, who rejected numerous publishing
offers after testifying at the Clarence Thomas hearings, has
now signed a deal to write both an autobiography and a book
on sexual harassment. Hill decided to turn author after receiving
thousands of letters from people urging her to share her views.
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<p> LARRY FISHBURNE has obviously developed a penchant for playing
less-than-lucid '60s rock stars. The actor who brought us the
unceasingly irascible Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with
It will star in a film chronicling the life of guitar god Jimi
Hendrix. The film is tentatively titled 'Scuse Me While I Kiss
the Sky.
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