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Commander of the Stage: Gen. Colin Powell’s daughter is a struggling actress who hopes she makes it big before anyone gets her dad interested in the White House. Linda Powell, 26, jokingly said of her father’s possible aspirations: “Oh, President? I hope I become famous first.” In the movie “Reversal of Fortune,” the younger Powell played one of the law students who helps Alan Dershowitz win Claus von Bulow’s case. On Thursday, she opens at the New York City’s Samuel Beckett Theater in “Judgment Day.” She plays a flirt in a small German town in the 1930s.
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