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BOSTON—As one of the students of the “Little Rock Nine” recounted her story under Faneuil Hall’s towering ceiling last night, her words were interrupted with short, poignant pauses. Fifty years ago last month, Carlotta W. LaNier and eight fellow students became the first blacks to integrated into Central High—a previously all-white Arkansas school—under the order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state’s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents...
...ballet, where you just stand at the bar by yourself, Harvard ballroom forces you to meet and dance with many new people. And because the upper-level dancers teach the newer members a lot of the time, everyone eventually gets experience teaching. Through the team, I was introduced to Carlotta Jorgensen (“Dancing with the Stars”), who soon became my dancing role model. Possessing great artistic expression while maintaining a lot of class, Carlotta is also just a wonderful person. Interacting with and taking lessons from her is an inspiring experience. She makes you feel like...
...Richard Gere; Phantom has 18-year-old Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow) and Scott Gerard Butler, 35, best known for 2003's Tomb Raider sequel. The only name is Minnie Driver, who is less than hot these days and has a cameo as the jealous opera diva Carlotta. Although Phantom has kept salaries low by casting virtual unknowns, its $80 million budget puts it between Alien vs. Predator and The Incredibles. An ensemble of 100-plus sings and dances through Schumacher's enormous, immaculately designed soundstages. In addition to the roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there...
...doesn't sing in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. "It would have been ridiculously arrogant to believe I could pull it off without a lifetime of training," says the Good Will Hunting star, who appears with Gerard Butler as the Phantom. Besides, the role of Carlotta provides other outlets for Driver's pipes. "I do a lot of babbling and screaming in Italian," she says. "I enjoyed that quite...
...bulb for pulp fiction moths. Over the years, Erich Segal’s Love Story, Pam Thomas-Brown’s A Darker Shade of Crimson, Jane Harvard’s The Student Body and hundreds of other not-quite-Faulkner caliber books have been set at Harvard. Now Carlotta Carlyle, the red-headed, fast-talking Boston detective and long-running serial mystery protagonist, is walking the campus beat...