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Jane Alexander is a freelance journalist and writer specializing in mind, body and spirit. Jane started her career in journalism as Consumer Editor on City Limits, the London listings magazine, around ten years ago before moving to the Evening Standard as deputy editor of ‘Metropolis’ covering cultural issues. In 1992 she left to become a freelance writer and contributed to a huge array of magazines. Jane is well known for her features in the Daily Mail which cover all aspects of alternative and complementary health-care, self-help, psychology and mind, body and spirit.
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Jane Alexander is well-trusted as an expert in natural medicine, holistic living and contemporary spirituality. Her aim is to simplify the often arcane concepts behind alternative health and spirituality and make them accessible and meaningful to everybody. She is the author of sixteen books on holistic living, including Spirit of the Home, Live Well (a western guide to ayurveda), The Detox Plan, The Five Minute Healer and The Weekend Healer. Her website was recently given 5 star top rating by The Good Web Guide who said "If she didn't exist, you'd have to invent her and the Mind Body Spirit movement probably owes her a great debt of gratitude..her books are all worth buying." Visit JaneAlexander.org and find out why.
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The South African artist Jane Alexander constructs creatures that seem kitschy at first glance, yet monstrous and mysterious at the second. As hybrid beings – human bodies with animal heads – they represent human thought and action. Their animal physiognomies embody the psychic state, the conditio humana, of a traumatised multicultural society in the period after apartheid. Jane Alexander, who is white, was born in Johannesburg in 1959. The writer and art critic Simon Njami sees her as "an accessory to a truth and a history which force her, even against her will, to think within the terms of a sick society."
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During the 1970s, Jane Alexander continued to turn in stellar performances on stage and in films. She was nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was first up for 1976’s Watergate scandal film All the President’s Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as famed journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Alexander played a bookkeeper who helped out the pair on their quest for the truth. She scored her second supporting actress nomination in the divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
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Tony Award winner and four-time Academy Award nominee Jane Alexander is profiled in this biography from Lifetime. After a privileged upbringing in Massachusetts, the budding actress briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College until her sophomore roommate's life was cut tragically short. Alexander sought refuge in the theater program at the University of Edinburgh, and upon returning to New York she began to slowly build a successful career out of playing strong women in risky, politically serious films and plays. From marriages both unsuccessful and successful to her 1993 appointment as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Intimate Portrait uncovers the real stories behind a very public life. Narrated by Marsha Mason, the program features interviews with James Earl Jones, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wendy Wasserstein, Alexander's husband Ed Sherin and son Jace Alexander, and Tina Howe. ~ Sarah Welsh, All Movie Guide
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Jane Alexander was born in Johannesburg in 1959. Her father’s family came from Berlin. Alexander studied art at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1982 and her Master’s degree in 1988. In 1982, she was awarded the University of Witwatersrand’s Martienssen Student Prize.
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