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...with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered species will not be on display at all during...
...Brazilian artist and poet Ana Miranda tackles political intrigue in seventeenth-century Brazil in her first novel, Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable...
...sitting there, popcorn in hand, watching MEDICINE MAN, and it hits you: haven't you met those Indians someplace before? You're right. Bekana Santos Kaiapo, who plays Imana, the Brazilian Indian child helped by Dr. Campbell (Sean Connery), made his film debut as an infant in The Emerald Forest (1985) and earned his spurs more recently in At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Edinei Maria Serrio Dos Santos, who appears as Imana's mother, also played Indians in all three films. Elias Monteiro da Silva, Campbell's aide Palala, was in At Play. Silva says his latest...
Also worth mention is the film's patronizing treatment of Brazilian natives and its insincere stab at saving the rain forests. The filmmakers' earnestness would have been more convincing if they had contributed some of their profits to the jungle's preservation...
Tromobonist Cynthia Tigner--Brazilian and American jazz. Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston St. Boston. Thursday, Feb. 20, 4 p.m. Free...