Word: chauffeured
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While common folk have to wait as long as ten years for a private automobile, party officials are whisked around in chauffeur-driven black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines. A separate lane is reserved for them on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major Moscow artery. Those within the charmed circle are allotted spacious apartments and can loll about at weekend dachas in the countryside. They even have exclusive hospitals, where the care is far superior to that in ordinary institutions...
...roles for black actors are still hard to come by, but audiences currently have a chance to see two unusually full-bodied movie portrayals of the black experience: Driving Miss Daisy, the critically acclaimed drama about the 25-year relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish woman and her black chauffeur, and Glory, a stirring account of the first black regiment to serve in the Civil War. Morgan Freeman, now 52, stars in both...
...less capable hands, John Rawlins, the illiterate gravedigger who becomes a sergeant major in Glory, and Hoke Colburn, the courtly chauffeur in Miss Daisy, could have become sterile symbols of good intentions. But Freeman's performances are so finely calibrated that these characters emerge as men of true heft and substance. Says Glory director Edward Zwick: "Morgan inhabits a role rather than performs...
Insiders are predicting that Freeman will win another Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the chauffeur in Miss Daisy, a role he originated in the off- Broadway production, and producers have anointed him a bankable star. "People will be making parts for Morgan," declares producer Richard Zanuck. But Freeman has heard such talk before, and he is taking all the praise in stride. Recently, he, his second wife, costume designer Myrna Colley-Lee, and their seven-year-old granddaughter E'Dena began to live part time on their 38-ft. ketch Sojourner, which is moored in the Caribbean. "When...
Sharp lessons for a Georgia matron and her black chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy; Civil War blacks in Glory; and Louisiana's Earl Long in Blaze...