Mumbai, India – About 40 years ago at the age of seven, Masooma Ranalvi was lured to a dark alley in a decrepit-looking building by her grandma’s promise of ice-cream. It is a day that she will never forget.
“I remember it so clearly. I was told to lie down, my legs were held and I was cut with a razor. It was a sharp piercing pain. It was so scary and I couldn’t stop crying,” Ranalvi told Al Jazeera English. Read More...
The youngest of three daughters, Kathleen 'Kathy' Doyle Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to a homemaker and a mechanical engineer on June 28, 1948. After getting into acting via a high school play, the future Dolores Claiborne and Titanic star went on to major in theatre at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1969.
New York beginningsIn 1970, aspiring actress Kathy opted to head to New York to pursue her career. Read More...
Flip Wilson, the popular comedian who became the first black entertainer to be the host of a successful weekly variety show on network television, died Wednesday night at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 64. The cause was liver cancer, his assistant, Angie Hill, said.
Then, Did Flip Wilson ever get married? Wilson was married twice. In 1957, he married Lavenia Patricia “Peaches” Wilson (née Dean); they divorced in 1967. Read More...