Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, black filmmakers say, Hollywood is often cool to film concepts that don't include pimps, drive-bys, sexual antics or, preferably, all three. Debbie Allen, producer of Amistad, a film about a real-life 19th century slave revolt, spent several years looking for backers before Spielberg signed on to direct it (the film will be out in December). Kasi Lemmons, writer-director of Eve's Bayou--which deals with family secrets, sisterly friendship and voodoo--had a similar experience. "We were turned down by everyone," says Lemmons. "They all said they loved the script, and then they...
...film opens with a long, continuous shot that begins off the coast of mid-19th-century New York, swoops through parks and over avenues, and sneaks into an old brownstone where, in an upstairs bedroom, a woman dies while giving birth. Sustained opening shots can be empty gimmicks (anyone see The Bird-cage?), but Jerzy Zielinski's vivid camera-work shifts moods so subtly in each new context that, within minutes, the various textures of Old New York--from public pageantry to private grief--are established...
Ostensibly, his career will begin Dec. 12, when the world will see him in Steven Spielberg's film "Amistad." Ashong plays Buakey, an African slave who takes part in a 19th century rebellion while on a Cuban ship crossing the Atlantic. The leading role is Ashong's first professional acting...
...from the Vienna Woods or pose in a G-string for publicity shots. All he does is look handsome and make music--a concept as old-fashioned as the music he makes. Therein, in fact, may lie the real secret of his success: the perpetually hummable tunes of the 19th century waltz king after whom Rieu's orchestra is named. "When I want a melody/ Lilting through the house,/ Then I want a melody/ By Strauss," Ira Gershwin wrote in 1936, and six intervening decades of swing, rock and hip-hop have done nothing to diminish the truth...
...disease Jill Seaman battled is not new. In the 19th century, kala-azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "black sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr. William Boog Leishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam...