Ruby Lin Xin-ru (Chinese: 林心如; pinyin: Lín Xīnrú; born January 27, 1976) is a Taiwanese actress, television and film producer, and singer.
Lin began her career as a commercial model in 1993 and gained pan-Asian prominence for her role as Xia Ziwei in the megahit TV series My Fair Princess (1998-1999). She followed the success with TV series such as The Duke of Mount Deer (2000), Romance in the Rain (2001), Boy & Girl (2003), Affair of Half a Lifetime (2004), Beauty's Rival in Palace (2010), The Glamorous Imperial Concubine (2011) and The Way We Were (2014). While focusing mostly on TV, she also starred in films such as The House That Never Dies (2014), The Devotion of Suspect X (2017) and Miss Andy (2020). As a singer, she released six albums, beginning with Heartbeat (1999).
Since Lin started her own studio in 2009, she has been producing TV dramas and TV films starring herself, both in mainland China and Taiwan. Her production debut The Glamorous Imperial Concubine (2011) won her Best Producer at the 2012 TV Drama Awards Made in China, and her first Taiwanese drama production The Way We Were (2014) won three out of seven nominations, including Best Television Series at the 50th Golden Bell Awards.
According to Apple Daily, Lin was the third highest-earning Taiwanese drama actress in 2011, and the top-earner in 2012 and 2013. Lin ranked 30th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 36th in 2014, 82nd in 2015, and 68th in 2017.
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Date: 28 January 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Analysis of reasons why ABC News pres William Sheehan forced resignation of Av Westin, exec producer credited with revitalizing network's evening news program and creating respected documentary unit (M)
Date: 27 January 1976
By DOUGLAS W. CRAY
Douglas CRAY
Fed Reserve Bank of NY Pres Paul A Volcker scores media for lending 'sensationalized air' to bank problem areas by publishing articles based on 'fragments' of bank exam repts maintained by Fed Reserve, Currency Comptroller and FDIC, speech at meeting of NYS Bankers Assn, NYC; claims articles might give wrong impression about stability of banking system; concedes some banks are having problems, resulting from econ situation, but holds they are being corrected; notes basic earning power of banks has improved; illus (M)
Date: 28 January 1976
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
analysis of HR Select Com on Intelligence rept draft copy finding that 11 CIA officers were posing as journalists overseas in connection with their intelligence work; notes instance is not 1st in which CIA infiltration of news orgns has been charged; holds that main concern is that readers, viewers and listeners will begin to believe that their news is colored by CIA; says that news orgns and reporters must be doubly certain to make public any secret arrangements they may have knowingly had with such Govt agencies; cites allegations made by former newsman Sam A Jaffe that Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor had such dealings (M)
Date: 27 January 1976
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
White House press sec Ron Nessen and CIA Dir William E Colby charge that leaks of HR Select Intelligence Com rept on intelligence activities violate agreement between com and exec branch; Nessen says leaks raise questions about how classified material can be handled by Cong when natl security is at stake; Colby says that under agreement by which CIA supplied information to com, Pres Ford should have been consulted before any release of secret information and 'his decision would be final in the absence of further judicial determination,' news conf; says he believes rept is 'totally biased and a disservice' to US; says com, by selective use of evidence provided and by innuendo and suggestive language, implies that intelligence has deceptive budgets, no accountability and has not complied with direct order of Pres; denies this; Colby says 'best way' to stop leakage and the dangers to US it involves is by rapid dissolution of com; tells AP reporter in int that he told Washington Star in Nov '73 that CIA infiltrated news media; Repr R McClory attacks news leaks; says he is particularly upset because his minority opinion on rept was not reptd in NY Times; Repr R N Giaimo scores leaks; com staff dir A Searle Field says leaks did not come from com and that there are copies of rept at State Dept, exec offices and Pentagon; Colby denies anyone at CIA leaked information; repts' findings cited; Pres Ford awards Colby the Natl Security Medal and praises his leadership (M)
Date: 27 January 1976
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Baker humorous article, in form of questions and answers, notes cliches being used by pol reporters to describe Pres candidates and issues (M)
Date: 28 January 1976
By DENA KLEIMAN
Dena KLEIMAN
Carson trial; he testifies that he did not order slayings and that he only learned they had been shot when he read them in newspapers; says only reason he went to victims apt was to search for painting stolen from Helio Museum in Plaza North Hotel (M)
Date: 27 January 1976
Av Westin resigns as ABC-TV exec producer of news and documentary programs following dispute in Dec with ABC News pres William Sheehan; dispute reptdly centered on budgetary cutback to 7 documentaries this yr from usual 12 and apptmt of Steve Skinner to be producer of evening news program (M)