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...Celia R. Maccoby ’07 and her friend Katherine L. Penner ’07 went back for seconds before finishing their first cones...
Iolanthe, like most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, is a cheerfully silly piece about love with a healthy dash of British political satire. In this case, the law is the target, but it is powerless before love. The fairy Iolanthe (Celia R. Maccoby ’07), pardoned after a twenty-five-year banishment from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal, has a half-fairy (the upper half) son, named Strephon (Michael Moss ’03). Strephon is in love with Phyllis (Lisa D. Lareau ’06), who, as an orphan, has been entrusted...
...Albert traveled from Shostakovich, Russia, to Omaha, Neb., in the early 1900s at the age of 14. Life would be good in Omaha, assured an immigration officer in Galveston, Texas, where Louis initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...
PASSIONADA. Leading actor Jason Isaacs portrays compulsive gambler Charles Beck, who pretends to be a successful fishing business entrepreneur. He courts Celia Amonte, a Portuguese widow, after she receives some encouragement from her teenage daughter. Amonte (Sofia Milos) reluctantly falls in love with him, at least until she discovers his true occupation. The Dan Ireland film received rave reviews after its first screening as the closing picture at the Seattle International Film Festival. Passionada screens...
...CELIA CRUZ, who died last week, left her native Cuba in 1960 and spent the rest of her life taking listeners back there through her music. She was born around 1924, but was coy about her exact birth year. After growing up in Havana, she joined the band La Sonora Matancera. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, she left for the U.S., where her career flourished. Her contralto voice was like the waters that separate Miami and Havana--inviting, sun-kissed, capable of rising up in a storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music...