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...Dancer-choreographer Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 did not have to suffer through printer jams and paper shortages to finish her thesis—instead, she brought a little bit of Brazilian culture and samba to the Loeb Experimental (Ex) Theater...
...Braxton-Brooks, a special concentrator in Performance Studies and Performing Texts, her staged thesis let her combine her artistic interests as a dancer with her questions about “fantasized notions” of Brazilian culture in the Western mind...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Director Philip Noyce’s adaptation of the 1956 Graham Greene novel stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler, the middle-aged London Times foreign correspondent covering the French-Indochina war in Saigon. Fowler, who lives in Vietnam with a beautiful ex-taxi dancer named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), finds this lifestyle imperiled when a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong and tries to wrest her away. As the eponymous “quiet American,” Pyle is rather the opposite—his naive idealism...
Nobody in this military town talks about post-Iraq rebuilding plans. No one skims over the fighting and dying and winning of a war as if they were instructions on a waffle iron. It's real here, even for experts in faking it, like exotic dancer Charlotte Johnson. Marines keep handing her their dog tags before they go. "I think they want someone waiting for them," she says. "I always tell them, 'I'll give them back to you when you get home.' But I know not all of them will...
...punishing his body, and vice versa, since he was a 7-year-old Peking Opera student. After more than 50 starring roles and 100 broken bones, he shouldn't be the prisoner of the product guarantee that made him famous. Yet Chan's fans expect that, like a great dancer or a porn star, he will do it for real and do it forever...