This is what, this year, people looked at, selected as the best and the worst, read most, remembered, cared less and completely forgot about... Part 4
BEST 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
1-Illinois, by Sufjan Stevens. 2-Z, by My Morning Jacket. 3-Wearemonster, by Isolée. 4-I am a bird now, by Antony And The Johnsons. 5-Echoes of my heart, by Rhe De Ville. 6-Madonna, by Madonna. 7-Extraordinary machine, by Fiona Apple. 8-Twin Cinema, by The New Pornographers. 9-Compared to What?, by George Kahn. 10-Right Onto the Track, by Doug Gochman.
BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
1- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 2-Never Let me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. 3-A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut, 4-The Lemon Tree, by Ilil Arbel. 5-On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. 6-Silent Lies, by M.L. Malcolm. 7-The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. 8-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rolling. 9-Teacher Man: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt. 10-The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion.
CELEBRITIES:
Photos: Anna Nicole Smith, the year's undisputed queen of vulgarity.
The 15 most searched celebrities on the Internet in rank order: 1-Paris Hilton. 2-Pamela Anderson. 3-Janet Jackson. 4- Jennifer Aniston. 5-Angelina Jolie. 6-Anna Nicole Smith. 7- Brad Pitt. 8-Tom Cruise. 9-Christine Taylor. 10-Oprah Winfrey. 11-Katie Holmes. 12-Madonna. 13-Michael Jackson. 14-Renee Zellweger. 15-Jessica Simpson.
The most vulgar celebrity of the year: Anna Nicole Smith. The most financially successful celebrity of the year: Oprah Winfrey. Alleged annual income: $210 Millions. The 10 most valuable stars of the year in rank order: 1-Angelina Jolie. 2-Julia Roberts. 3-Jake Gyllenhaal. 4-Eminem. 5-George Clooney. 6-Tom Cruise. 7-Charlize Theron. 8-Jessica Alba. 9-Madonna. 10-Michael Jackson.
The 5 most controversial celebrities of the year: 1-Michael Jackson. 2-Howard Stern. 3-Michael Moore. 4-Janet Jackson. 5-Martha Stewart.
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THE BOOBS-MILLIONS-LAWSUIT OF THE YEAR
Anna was rewarded $450 million after a court battle, to the chagrin of Marshall's son.
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vicki Lynn Hogan November 28, 1967, in Mexia, Texas. After her father had abandoned her and her mother when she was a child, she was raised by her mother and aunt, commuting back and forth to each caretaker. At the age of 17, Anna (then Vicki) married Billy Smith, and that same year, they welcomed their son Daniel into the world. Time with Billy was short-lived, as young Anna, now a mother, headed to Houston to turn over a new leaf. In order to pay the bills, she began working at topless bars in Houston, where she was actually more noticed for her rear than for her breasts (she did not have the breasts that men recognize today).
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Anna Nicole Smith. Is she worth $450 millions?
But since she was not as rail-thin as the rest of the dancers, Anna did not work the coveted hours of topless clubs, rather she was scheduled in the afternoon shift. Regardless, Anna (who then used several pseudonyms such as Nikki and Robin, before finally sticking to Anna Nicole) was discovered by a photographer, and quickly realized that she can use her body as a career tool. Since her childhood dream was to become the next Marilyn Monroe (her idol), Anna was inspired to make more of a name for herself. After a breast enlargement and some cosmetic surgery, Anna was ready for the big time, and ironically, headed in the same direction as Monroe. She entered the Playboy Cover Contest, and appeared on the cover of the magazine at the age of 24. Two years later, she was crowned 1993's Playmate of the Year, which although is an honor in itself, led Anna to bigger and better things. Thanks to her Playboy appearance, Guess? president Paul Marciano, also responsible for the modeling careers of Eva Herzigova, Josie Moran and Shana Zadrick, saw Anna's potential and cast her as her a Guess? model. She made her big screen debut in the 1994 slapstick comedy, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, followed by an appearance in The Hudsucker Proxy, starring Tim Robbins. If audiences didn't catch Anna in these films, they surely heard of her questionable marriage to oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II -- 60 years her senior -- on the 27th of June 1994. Anna had remained low-profile, until Marshall's death in 1995. In 1996, the former Playmate filed for bankruptcy, after a former female assistant sued her for sexual harassment (she would have had to pay $850,000). Although Marshall had left Anna with an inheritance, his heirs claimed that she could not receive what he left her, accusing her of mistreating him in his last few days and not marrying him for the right intentions. She was not mentioned in any of his wills, but she claimed that he offered her half of his money, to speed up her decision to marry him. Anna was rewarded $450 million after a court battle, to the chagrin of Marshall's son. The television viewing public can now get a bigger glimpse of Anna Nicole Smith, as she's starring in her very own reality series, on E!. And judging by past Anna Nicole media coverage, we'll just eat it up -- cleavage and all. Askmen added: Why We Like Her? When Anna first appeared on the scene, she was hot. Posing for the bunny mag and Guess?, she had men everywhere begging for more. Unfortunately, a marriage to a very senior citizen, a bitter court battle, some significant weight gain, and proof that she isn't the brightest woman to grace the E! channel have scared us somewhat. But it looks like she has her act together once again, and we're happy about that.
Why Is She Famous? A marriage to an 89-year-old
billionaire, gracing the cover of Playboy, chosen as 1993's
PlayMate of the Year, posing as a Guess? model, and starring in her
own reality TV series all made Anna famous, or should we say infamous?
Anna Nicole Smith. What can we say that hasn't been said? Rarely has a
woman had so many readily available adjectives to describe her. Gold
digger, bodacious, vixen, plaything, conniving, innocent, moron,
misguided, beautiful, and unstable are just some of the many things she
has been called.
An angry and "concerned" reader wrote this: "Walking doucheville, Anna
Nicole Smith, recently appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in one last
attempt to yank millions of dollars out of her late husband's cold dead
hands. Smith claims that oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II promised her
millions of dollars when they got married in 1994 - he was 89 years old
and she was 26 - but that Marshall's son schemed to cut her out of the
estate after Marshall's passing only a year after he married Smith.
Yesterday, U.S. Supreme Court justices said they would consider Smith's
appeal, which could land her as much as $474,000,000.It scares me to
think of future law school students studying the socio-legal implications
of a case like Anna Nicole Smith v. Decency, where the evidence starts
from Exhibit C and goes all the way through to Exhibit Double-F, and
consists mostly of bras and the random number generator Anna Nicole used
to determine the size of her new bust line every week. I'm not saying that
her breasts will be a deciding factor in the high court's decision per
se, but you try to keep a bunch of angry old men's attention for more
than three minutes without flashing some bra action. Plus I hear Ruth
Bader Ginsburg is totally into experimenting, and apparently she likes 'em
busty." A UK magazine " FemaleFirst" stated that ANNA NICOLE BUSTS OUT
ABOUT HER BREASTS. Busty ANNA NICOLE SMITH is happy with her perfect
breasts after undergoing five operations to get them just right. The
model/actress lost her boobs when she gave birth to her son in 1986 and
she spent years getting them back to their original state - and then
supersized them. But in the process, she went from too small to too big.
The 37-year-old reveals, "I went up to 211 (pounds) so I stretched to
double-Fs, and when I lost all the weight I went way back down, except my
skin didn't. It was not pretty." The busty blonde admits she opted for a
C-cup implant but didn't like the way her nipples pointed downwards, so
she supersized to a D, then a double-D and then an F before settling for
her current choice, the size of which she refuses to disclose. But she's
happy to clear up a few rumours about implants: "I've heard a rumour that
I have two implants in each boob. Now, if anyone could show me how that
would work I'd really like to ```see it myself." She explains her new
breasts are like tyres - they need changing from time to time: "You get
scar tissue. You have to go in every five years and change them out."
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WOMEN AUTHORS AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Best remembered for her role in the first rock musical Hair with its notorious nude scene, the iconic Sixties star Marsha Hunt writes about her struggles with cancer in her book Undefeated in which she records her recent battle with breast cancer. Undefeated by Marsha Hunt, published by Mainstream Publishing - ISBN:1845960785. Quite challenging in its nature, the books appeals to both sexes. It is dramatic and fun too.
Pamela Stevenson:
Sails the South Seas in search of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
Pamela
Stephenson gave up her job as a psychologist and - having analysed her
husband, the comedian Billy Connolly - left him and two of their daughters
behind, as she followed in the intrepid footsteps of Fanny Stevenson,
maverick wife of the writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. Pamela talks about
her journey in a sailing boat around the South Seas, meeting her dream
lover - and how Billy reacted to her trip. Treasure Islands: Sailing
The South Seas in the wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by
Pamela Stephenson, Headline Books, ISBN: 0 7553 1285 6. The book is as
exciting as the personality of the author. Get a copy.
M. L. MALCOLM'S "SILENT LIES"
This is the story of a Hungarian boy born into poverty, who uses his amazing ability with languages to build a brilliant new life for himself. But when Hungary collapses after its defeat in World War I, Leo loses everything. Caught up in a riptide of events beyond his control, he reinvents himself as circumstances demand, eventually fleeing to Shangha. He takes with him a stolen diamond necklace that will prove to be his salvation—or his death warrant. Based on actual historical events, from the Communist takeover of Budapest in 1920 to the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937, Silent Lies brims with fascinating details about life among the rich and scandalous during the period between the two World Wars. Malcolm excelled in depicting the authentic aura and ambiance of the era. Her characters are captivating, even though, her hero is not exactly a saint or a martyr. This is a mesmerizing story told in the genre of a Robert Louis Stevenson who has just swallowed a double cognac with Victor Hugo. Malcom's mastery of lyrical suspense is evident. The story encompasses all aspects of life, its ups and downs, hopes and despair, adventures and rendez vous with fatality. A must buy book. It will haunt you for years to come. Hardcover: 6 x 9, 336 pages. Publisher: Longstreet Press (USA) (November 2005) ISBN: 1563527502.
Alice Walker:
Do older women want their own romantic fiction?
Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, talks about her life and work.
The latest literary phenomenon is 'Matron Lit': romantic fiction
aimed at the older woman. Do older women want to see the reality of their
lives reflected in romantic fiction or do they prefer their fantasy
figures in pert good health, and without the family responsibilities and
emotional baggage that maturity often brings? Alice
Walker burst onto the literary stage in 1983 when she became the first
African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Colour
Purple. The book went on to sell more than 5 million copies, and in 1985
was made into a film by Steven Spielberg - bringing the experiences of a
young black woman in the American South to a mass audience for the first
time. In 1992, her novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, raised awareness
on the issue of female genital mutilation. She's been a controversial
campaigner for black and women's rights - coining the term 'womanist' to
describe African American women's experience of feminism. Now, at the age
of 61, she's the author of 27 books - of poetry, novels, short stories and
memoirs. Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart by Alice Walker,
published by Phoenix, ISBN:0753819570, is an outstanding literary
achievement.
Ilil
Arbel's The Lemon Tree: A masterpiece. Best Short Novel of the Year.
As soon as you begin to read Ilil Arbel's masterpiece, "The Lemon Tree", you start to feel the presence of a superb writer who has unveiled the intimate secrets of conversing with the depth of the soul and the warmth of a parallel world of beauty and love which dissipated in joyfully morose and cherished memories. Arbel's tender, heart felt and nostalgic style echoes the drama of Tolstoy and charming eloquence of Victor Hugo. The past is romantic, but no one wants to live it again. In Arbel's book, the past continues on a different path. It is a joyful one, a hopeful road of life, despite the hard time, the suffering, the constant threat of typhoid fever and horrible deceases without cure, facing arrest at Port Said, the fear of being shot by Manchurian officials for smuggling "a few necessities of life", and desperately chasing runway trains, her parents went through, suffered from and barely made it to the promised land. Arbel wrote about all these unpleasant and horrifying events her parents experienced and suffered from. However, the sweetness and lyrical warmth of her style, the way she described how Marusia, Ilil family's nanny was concerned about Ida, (Ilil's mother) frozen nose, because Siberia's icy weather, where Ilil's parent previously lived, had no mercy on humans, and how papa used to rub her frozen nose with snow and goose fat, while hugging her.
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Dr. Ilil Arbel, the author of "THE LEMON TREE". Truly, this woman is one
of the greatest writers of our time.
You will be touched by the simplistic, yet majestically eloquent and descriptive style of Arbel which brought back the memories of taking trips to the woods to collect bluebells and wild berries, skating on the Siberian ice, building huge snowmen with coal eyes, traveling in troikas, pushing their "child-size sleds", running madly with exuberant joy and innocence, jumping to lie on them and " traveling for unbelievable distances on the uninterrupted sheets of ice, feeling as if they were flying."
Yes, it is true, you will be reading about an ordinary and loving Siberian family who lost their child and promised to keep his soul alive through an ordinary lemon tree, should they succeed to plant it in an orchard in Israel. I would give my life for a lemon tree, for a cactus tree, even for the hell tree, if that tree would keep alive the soul, the fragile whispers, the bleeding memory, the loving face of a child I lost and loved so much! This tree is not a plant. In Arbel's book, as well as on the roads of life, Sasha's tree becomes a citadel, a temple, a cathedral, a shrine, a human chronicle, perhaps a human drama, and perhaps too, a guiding light...a strong shoulder...and the reflection of myriads of hope, perhaps?
Photo:
Ida Rosenfeld, co-author of THE LEMON
TREE and Ilil's mother in her thirties in Israel.
Thanks to the magnificent artistry of Ilil Arbel, the whispers of Ida, the jokes and stories of Papa, the silly but tasty cakes of Mama, we learned that the very simple day by day experience of ordinary but "real" people, the songs they sang, the stories they heard and told, the family bond that ties together, mother, father, grand mother, children and grandchildren, naive but funny jokes are more significant, meaningful , tender and mightier than all the swords of the Iliad and Herculean exploits. Get a copy of the book. Get more copies, if you have real friends. "THE LEMON TREE" is a masterpiece. One of the 10 best books of the year. A triumph of the pen and the human spirit. Two thumbs up.
THE LEMON TREE: Publication date: February 2005. Price: $11.95. Size: 6x9. ISBN: 0-595-33982-4. Pages: 104. Illustrated. Available from Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, iUniverse, Inc., Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.
In an era obsessed by family history, how do people without any cope? Kate Adie was adopted as a baby and has written a new book about foundlings, children who are abandoned to the state by their mothers, often with next to nothing to connect them to their roots. Kate talks about Nobody's Child and how the lack of information about where the foundlings have come from affects them as they grow up. Nobody's Child by Kate Adie, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd -ISBN: 0340838000
Adriana Trigiani is author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap books, a series of quirky tales set in a coal-mining town in southwest Virginia. In her latest book 'Rococo', she tells the story of a small Italian-American town poised for a makeover never expected. The book is colorful, informative and entertaining. Rococo by Adriana Trigiani, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743263677.
Author
Lynn Knight tells us about the woman who started out as a factory
girl then became one of Britain's most distinctive designers.
Her brightly coloured designs are instantly recognisable and it's this
that makes Clarice Cliff one of the most influential ceramic designers of
the last hundred years. She was a woman who rose from being an apprentice
gilder in the potteries to a position as an art director, described by the
press as a "brilliant girl artist." The striking range which she designed,
decorated with "a gargantuan feast of colour", is now seen as the epitome
of Art Deco and avidly collected. The modern spirit of her work captured
the essence of the 1920s, a time when women were embracing new freedoms.
Lynn Knight whose biography of Clarice Cliff tells the story of a woman
who started out as a factory girl and became one of Britain's most
distinctive designers. I found the book to be extremely entertaining and
authoritative as well. Wealth of captivating stories and passages of time.
Highly recommended. Clarice Cliff by Lynn Knight, published by Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 0747578281
Booker nominated author on
her new novel
Rachel Cusk's new novel 'In The Fold' has been nominated for this year's
Booker prize. Described as a classic story of modern manners, the book
takes a blackly comic look at the modern English family as it follows the
story of Michael and Rebecca's crumbling marriage and their attempts to
rekindle old friendships.
Sabine Kuegler On her
Jungle Childhood
Sabine Kuegler grew up with a little-known tribe in a remote jungle area
of West Papua in Indonesia and moved to Europe aged 17. Kuegler adapted to
everyday life, in her new world. She writes about what she made of
her first encounters with supermarkets, train stations and pop music.
Jungle Child by Sabine Kuegler is published by Virago Press, ISBN:
184408261X
Dava Sobel: The author talks about her new book
Did you know that sunlight travels to us at 186 thousand miles per second,
or that on Mercury, a day is twice as long as a year? Or that the Aztecs
saw Venus as the twin brother of the sun and that a single carat of moon
rock sold at auction for more than four hundred thousand dollars? Dava
Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter and now The Planets,
gives us an awakening insight on the subject. The Planets by Dava Sobel,
published by Fourth Estate Ltd - ISBN:1857028503
Anna Swan's Statues Without Shadows
A daughter's
search for the parents she never knew. When Anna Swan was a young
girl she was told her father was a demon and her mother a saint. This
was a picture painted by her maternal grandparents who took her in when
her mum died. By the time she was seven her father had died too and Anna
was left to grow up in an atmosphere of secrets and lies. Anna Swan writes
about those cherished , happy and painful family's tableaux in her
biography, Statues Without Shadows, and her long search to discover the
dark truth about her parents and the lives they led at the heart of
London's 1950s literary scene. Statues without Shadows by Anna
Swan, published by Sceptre - ISBN: 0340835370.
Helen Fielding: The
author revives her Bridget Jones column
Helen Fielding has revived her Bridget Jones newspaper column ten years
after her thirty-something creation made its debut. Helen has now settled
with a partner and has had a child, so what new challenges does she
perceive for the world's most famous singleton?
Anna Akhmatova
by Elaine Feinstein
: Discover the Russian
poet's extraordinary life.
Anna Akhmatova was not only one of the greatest Russian poets of her day,
she was also known for her bravery. Throughout Stalin's terror, she stood
by friends such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Boris Pasternak who were
threatened by the regime. She was famously beautiful and many men fell in
love with her, but each of her three marriages were unhappy.
Diana Melly: Author talks about the
ups and downs in her life
Diana Melly has been a night-club hostess, model, novelist and has been
married to George Melly for 42 years. When they met, she was 24, had
already been married twice and had two children. Diana has now written
frankly about her life in a new autobiography. Melly candidly writes
about her open marriage, the death of her son, her role as a mother and
her thoughts about Greckel – one of George’s former lovers. A revealing
and powerful piece of work. Captivating. Take a Girl Like Me by Diana
Melly, ISBN 07011 79066 - Published by Random House.
Shirley
Hazzard on her holiday reading list
Most of us, throughout the year, make ourselves promises about the books
we really must get round to - whether they're classics or contemporary -
but there's never enough time to get going. Holidays are a good
opportunity to catch up so we've been inviting authors to share their must
reads with us. Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire was
short-listed for the Orange Prize and won the National Book Award in the
United States. So what was on her holiday reading list?
A Life In Secrets: The story of Vera Atkins and SOE's lost agents.
The
extraordinary life of Vera Atkins- the woman who parachuted female secret
agents into occupied France during the war, and then in 1945 made it her
personal mission to track down the missing agents and find out the awful
truth of what had happened to them. Sarah Helm, the author of A Life In
Secrets: The story of Vera Atkins and SOE's lost agents, tells the whole
story about the underground and dark side of political intrigues, spies
and beyond. A most fascinating book. Get a copy.
Patricia
Tyrell on her new novel Grandmother Wolf,
and what it's like to find literary success in later life
Patricia Tyrell had nine novels rejected over a period of 20 years; she
self-published 300 copies of her tenth book, The Reckoning, and
sold them to libraries. Interest in the novel spread by word of mouth
before it was short-listed for the Encore Award after which publishers
competed to sign her up. The 75 year-old author writes about her latest
novel, Grandmother Wolf which tells a story about family and the
generation gap. The Reckoning published
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 0297848917.
Grandmother Wolf published by Weidenfeld
& Nicolson ISBN: 0297848968.
Grace Nichol on her childhood in Guyana, her work at Tate Modern and her new collection of poems
Grace
Nichols' latest book Everybody Got a Gift is a collection of new
poems and old favourites, inspired by both her life in Britain and her
tropical childhood in Guyana. Grace writes about her poetry, her family
and her work with schoolchildren at Tate Modern. I loved the book. It is
submerged with human drama, bleeding truth and deep reflections on life.
Highly recommended. Get a copy.
Everybody Got a Gift by Grace Nichols A & C Black (Children's books)
ISBN: 0713673753.
RM Lamming:
Re-writing the stories of women from the Bible
Eve, Martha and Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate – these are three
of the women in the Bible who have now been brought to life by
award-winning author RM Lamming. In her latest book, As in Eden,
Lamming turns the spotlight on these women and gives their lives a new
perspective. Lamming about re-writes these ancient stories. As
in Eden by R M Lamming
Published 9 June by Faber
& Faber Ltd
ISBN 0-571-22642-6.
Elvis By The Presley's Written by Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley
Priscilla Presley is best known as the 14 year old girl that Elvis met and became infatuated with when he was in the army in Germany. She ended up living with him in Memphis and marrying him when she was 21. Six years later they were divorced but stayed friends to bring up their daughter Lisa Marie. Priscilla went on to become a well known TV and film actress and the woman who saved the Presley estate from near bankruptcy. This book could be an exploration about the author's life both pre- and post-Elvis and about the difficulties of living with such a well known name. Elvis By The Presley's Written by Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley Published by Random House Publishing ISBN: 1844138410.
Valerie Mason-John's Borrowed Body
Author Valerie Mason-John spent much of her childhood at a Dr Barnado's
village in Essex, she then moved to London to live with her biological
mother and at the age of 14 was living on the streets. She draws on these
experiences in her new novel Borrowed Body which follows the life
of a Nigerian girl abandoned by her mother. Valerie tells us about the
inspirations behind the book and how, in the Barnado's centenary year, she
looks back at her time in a children's home.
Borrowed Body
By Valerie Mason-John
Published by Serpents
Tail ISBN 1 85242 891 0.
Joyce Carol
Oates by Joyce Carol Oates: One of America's most honoured and prolific
authors
Reading one of her novels is - according to one critic "...like becoming
a peeping tom, staring without guilt into the bright living rooms and dark
hearts of America". An exciting book set against the backdrop of Niagara
Falls, where she grew up. The author deals with the desecration of
natural beauty, in one case a violent gang rape witnessed by the victim's
daughter, in the other industrial pollution.
Beyond Black By Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel returns with her
first novel for six years. The highly acclaimed author, in her
tenth novel, Beyond Black, follows her memoir, Giving Up the
Ghost. Set in the suburban dormitory towns around London’s orbital
motorway, the new novel follows a medium who makes her living by passing
on the messages of the dead. Beyond
Black By Hilary Mantel Published by Fourth Estate ISBN 0 0071 5775.
Life Mask by Jackie Kay: Her new collection of poetry looks at the different masks we wear in relationships
Her
award-winning poetry collection, The Adoption Papers, was
described as a "triumphant debut". Since then Jackie Kay has gone from
strength to strength as a writer. She has a remarkable imagination but it
has been said of her that she also has an "ability to write about lesbian
relationships and racial identity without ever seeming to be pushing an
issue on us". In her new poetry collection, Life Mask, she
brings her characteristic warmth and incisive observation to bear on the
emotional fall-out of a break-up, and the different masks we wear in our
relationships.
Life Mask
by Jackie Kay
published by Bloodaxe.
The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. (2004-2005): Listed in no particular order. Listed by name, country and age.
1. Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan, 42 . 2. Hillary Clinton - US, 48 . 3. Queen Elizabeth II - UK, 70 . 4. Margaret Thatcher - UK, 70 . 5. Alice Mitchell Rivlin - US, 65 . 6. Tansu Ciller - Turkey, 49 . 7. Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway, 57 . 8. Wu Yi - China, 57 . 9. Germaine Greer - Australia, 57 . 10. Oprah Winfrey - US, 42 . 11. Sadako Ogata - Japan, 68 . 12. Christine Todd Whitman - US, 49 . 13. Anson Chang - Hong Kong, 55 . 14. Late Katharine Graham - US, 78 . 15. Laura d'Andrea Tyson - US, 49 . 16. Rachel Lomax - UK, 50 . 17. Madeleine Korbel Albright - US, 58 . 18. Tutut Suharto - Indonesia, 47 . 19. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma, 50 . 20. Mary Robinson - Ireland, 51 . 21. Vidgis Finnbogadottir - Iceland, 66 . 22. Janet Reno - US, 58 . 23. Nafis Sadik - Pakistan, 61 . 24. Hanan Ashrawi - Palestine, 49 . 25. Queen Beatrix - The Netherlands, 58 . 26. Charlotte Beers - US, 59 . 27. Sheila Widnall - US, 58 . 28. Sheila Maureen Copps - Canada, 43 . 29. Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnam, 69 . 30. Dianne Feinstein - US, 63 . 31. Violeta Chamorro - Nicaragua, 65 . 32. Chandrika Kumaratunga - Sri Lanka, 50 . 33. Begum Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh, 50 . 34. Rita Sussmuth - Germany, 59 . 35. Mirjana Markovic - former Yugoslavia, 53 . 36. Christine Ockrent - France, 51 . 37. Sherry Lansing - US, 51 . 38. Gloria Steinem - US, 61 . 39. Jodie Foster - US, 33 . 40. Late Estee Lauder - US, 87 . 41. Rosabeth Moss Kanter - US, 53 . 42. Pauline Green - UK, 47 . 43. Barbara Walters - US, 64 . 44. Sandra Day O'Connor - US, 66 . 45. Anita Roddick - UK, 53 . 46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US, 63 . 47. Nadine Gordimer - South Africa, 73 . 48. Tina Brown - US, 42 . 49. Christy Turlington - US, 27. 50. Susanna Agnelli - Italy, 73 . 51. Carol Bellamy - US, 54 . 52. Liliana Ferraro - Italy, 52 . 53. Carol Galley - UK, 47 . 54. Madonna - US, 38 . 55. Countess Marion Donhoff - Germany, 86 . 56. Jana Wendt - Australia, 39 . 57. Sylvia Toth - The Netherlands, 52 . 58. Imelda Marcos - Philippines, 67 . 59. Queen Sirikit - Thailand, 63 . 60. Irene Pivetti - Italy, 33 . 61. Cheryl Kernot - Australia, 47 . 62. Catherine Bertini - US, 46 . 63. Ritt Bjerregaard - Denmark, 54 . 64. Elizabeth Dole - US, 59 . 65. Elizabeth Dowdeswell - Canada, 50 66. Takako Doi - Japan, 67 . 67. Anita DeFrantz - US, 43 . 68. Donna Karan - US, 47 . 69. Miriam Defensor Santiago - Philippines, 51 . 70. Helen Gurley Brown - US, 74 . 71. Elisabeth Guigou - France, 49 . 72. Janet Holmes - Australia, 52 . 73. Bodil Nyboe Andersen - Denmark, 55 . 74. Heide Simonis - Germany, 52 . 75. Jutta Limbach - Germany, 61 . 76. Hanna Suchocka - Poland, 50 . 77. Wandira Kazibwe - Uganda, 42 . 78. Simone Veil - France, 68 . 79. Jennie George - Australia, 48 . 80. Rosalyn Higgins - UK, 58 . 81. Dame Leonie Kramer - Australia, 71. 82. Rene Saez - Venezuela, 34 . 83. Megawati Sukarno - Indonesia, 49 . 84. Erika Emmerich - Germany, 52 . 85. Dai Qing - China, 55 . 86. Sirkka Hamalainen - Finland, 57 . 87. Roseanne - US, 42 . 88. Winnie Mandela - South Africa, 61 . 89. Xuxa - Brazil, 43. 90. Irina Khakamada - Russia, 40 . 91. Helen Clark - New Zealand, 46 . 92. Esther Koplowitz - Spain, 44 . 93. Alicia Koplowitz - Spain, 42 . 94. Tatyana Mitkova - Russia, 40 . 95. Ilda Boccassini - Italy, 46 . 96. Francoise Baree-Sinoussi - France, 48 . 97. Emily Lau - China, 43 . 98. Late Mother Teresa - India, 85 . 99. Betty Boothroyd - UK, 66 . 100. Meg Whitman, 49, USA.
2004-2005 USA MOST POWERFUL WOMEN: National Influence
Listed in no particular order:
Laura Bush, First Lady, Elaine Chao, US Secretary of Labor. .Lynne Cheney, Second Lady. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, US Supreme Court, Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President, White House. Margaret LaMontagne, Director of Domestic Policy Council, White House. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior. Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice, US Supreme Court. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser. Ann M. Veneman, US Secretary of Agriculture. Christie Todd Whitman, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
ON CAPITOL HILL: Listed in no particular order
Hillary Clinton, US Senator, New York. Jennifer Dunn, US Representative, Washington State. Susan Hirschmann, Chief of staff, House majority leader Tom DeLay. Kay Bailey Hutchison, US Senator, Texas. Eddie Bernice Johnson, US Representative, Texas; chair, Congressional Black Caucus. Nita Lowey, US Representative, New York; chairwoman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Barbara A. Mikulski, US Senator, Maryland. Patty Murray, US Senator, Washington; chair, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. Pam Pryor, Chief of staff, House Republican Conference. Olympia Snowe, US Senator, Maine. Ellen Tauscher, US Representative, California; vice chair, Democratic Leadership Council.
AMERICA WOMEN OF REGIONAL POWERS: Listed in no particular order
Katherine Hanley, Chairman, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Charlene Drew Jarvis, President, Southeastern University. Iris Metts, School superintendent, Prince George's County. Constance A. Morella, US Representative, Montgomery County; chairwoman, subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate to Congress, District of Columbia. Alice Rivlin, Senior fellow for economic studies, Brookings Institution. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant governor, Maryland.
AMERICAN WOMEN WITH ENORMOUS LEGAL AUTHORITY: Brooksley Born,Arnold & Porter. Maureen Dwyer, Shaw Pittman. Tilly Fowler, Holland & Knight. Natalie Ludaway, Leftwich & Douglas. Judith A. Miller, Williams & Connolly. Marna Tucker, Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank. Greta Van Susteren, TV host and legal expert, FoxNews.
AMERICAN WOMEN WITH POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN BUSINESS, LABOR AND LOBBYING: Patty Abramson, Managing director, Women's Growth Capital Fund. Kathy Bushkin, Senior vice president, AOL Time Warner; president, AOL Time Warner Foundation. Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive vice president, AFL-CIO. Nancy Chistolini, Senior vice president of fashion and public relations, Hecht's. Josephine Cooper, President and CEO, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Linda Daschle, Lobbyist, Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell. Jamie Gorelick, Vice chair, Fannie Mae. Marie Johns, President and CEO, Verizon Washington DC. Bobbie Kilberg, President, Northern Virginia Technology Council. Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert Group. Charito Kruvant, President and CEO, Creative Associates International. Mary MacPherson, Executive director, Netpreneur. Linda Rabbitt, President, Rand Construction; chair-elect, Greater Washington Board of Trade. Hilary Rosen, President and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America. Sheila Tate, Powell Tate. Anne Wexler, Wexler Group. Jeannette Lee White, President and CEO, Sytel.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN EDUCATION AND AND CONSULTING: Judith Areen, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center. Alice Gresham Bullock, Dean, Howard University Law School. Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation. Patricia A. McGuire, President, Trinity College. Charlene Nunley, President, Montgomery College. Susan C. Schwab, Dean, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Belle S. Wheelan, President, Northern Virginia Community College.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN RELIGION: Jane Holmes Dixon, Acting bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
POWERFUL WOMEN IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: Anne Allen, Executive director, Cafritz Foundation. Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund. Terri L. Freeman, President, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. Alma Gildenhorn, Honorary trustee, Kennedy Center; cochair of the fundraising campaign for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland. Kate Michelman, President, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Karen Narasaki, Executive director, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Alma Powell, Vice chairman, Kennedy Center Board of Trustees; chair of national council, Best Friends Foundation. Julie Rogers, President, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation. Jan Verhage, Executive director, Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE: Judith Bello, Executive vice president, Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America. Bernadine Healy, President and CEO, Red Cross. Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, American Association of Health Plans. Ruth Kirschstein, Acting director, National Institutes of Health. Ana Raley, CEO, DC Healthcare Alliance. Deborah Steelman, Vice president of corporate affairs, Eli Lilly and Company.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE MEDIA: Jill Abramson, Bureau chief, New York Times. Maureen Dowd, Columnist, New York Times. Cathy Hughes, Owner/founder, Radio One. Karen Jurgensen, Editor, USA Today. Debra L. Lee, President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television. Janet Leissner, Vice president and bureau chief, CBS News. Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, PBS. Diane Rehm, Radio talk-show host, WAMU-FM. Cokie Roberts, Anchor/analyst, ABC News and National Public Radio. Sharon Percy Rockefeller, President and CEO, WETA-TV and WETA-FM. Robin Sproul, Vice president and bureau chief, ABC News. Linda Sullivan, General manager, WRC-TV. Judy Woodruff, Prime anchor and senior correspondent, CNN.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE ARTS AND LETTERS: Sheila Burke, Undersecretary for American museums and national programs, Smithsonian Institution. Susan Farr, Executive director, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at Maryland. Norma Kaplan, Chief, Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division. Molly Smith, Artistic director, Arena Stage. Joy Zinoman, Artistic and managing director, Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.
10 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN FASHION:1. Marie Bravo, 2. Miuccia Prada, 3. Anna Wintour, 4.Donna Karan, 5. Rei Kawabuko, 6.Olsen Sisters, 7. Angela Ahrendts, 8. Delphine Arnault, 9. Aerin Lauder, 10. Floriane de Saint Pierre.
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