World No. 5 Williams, seeded third in the absence of her top-ranked younger sister Serena and No. 2 Dinara Safina due to injuries, crushed unseeded German Sabine Lisicki 6-2 6-3.

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When she compounds her crime by stealing Rose's first man in years, she flees her sister's wrath and takes refuge with the grandmother neither knew she had, which introduces a third powerhouse actress: Shirley MacLaine.

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