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Article: What Becomes A Legend Most?(Movies)(Ruby Dee)
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- Newsweek
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- February 25, 2008
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Byline: Joshua Alston
An Oscar, at 83, would be nice. But Ruby Dee isn't done yet.
In 2005, an interviewer made the mistake of referring to Ruby Dee's career as though it were ancient history. "You've had such a long and storied career --" he told the then 80-year-old actress. "Say, 'You are having'," she interjected. At the time, it seemed a bit cantankerous, the behavior of a woman refusing to acknowledge the onset of her winter. But then Dee won a Grammy, then a Screen Actors Guild award and, last month, her first Academy Award nomination for her performance in "American Gangster." So she wasn't just being crotchety. She was anticipating the Ruby Dee ...
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