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...black of the period, Stepin Fetchit. And there were technical gaffes galore: in a late-night scene in "Dirty Gertie," actress Francine Everett clicks on a bedside lamp and the screen actually darkens for a moment before full lights finally come up. Yet at least one Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus" (1941), has a naive grandeur to match its subject. A morality play about an angel and a devil fighting for a woman's soul, it begins with a baptism and ends in bloody death near a cross - all scored to rousing gospel music. Fifty years after...
DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor, composer and pianist, who made his conducting debut at the Bolshoi in 1955; in Moscow. Known for his interpretations of Russian compositions, he was recently dismissed from his 35-year post as chief conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra for working too much overseas...
...Identity?precious, elusive, fakable?is at the heart of Hari Kunzru's engaging debut novel The Impressionist (Penguin; 481 pages), which explores what it is to be Indian, English and all that lies between. The boy who would will himself into becoming Jonathan Bridgeman was born Pran Nath, spoiled heir to a wealthy Hindu clan in WW I-era British India. He is celebrated for his royal paleness?until he is revealed to be the half-breed bastard of a British officer. Teenage Pran is promptly tossed from his house and launched on a journey to the ragged ends...
...possibility of an African-American President is an idea whose time has come, and it came to two people at the exact same time. Comics CHRIS TUCKER and CHRIS ROCK are both developing movies about the history-shattering idea. Each man will star and each will make his directorial debut. Rock's film is called Head of State; Tucker's is titled Mr. President. Last week Tucker even appeared with an actual former President when he joined BILL CLINTON at a fund raiser in New York City. Perhaps Tucker was picking up some tips from the man novelist Toni Morrison...
While there is more socioeconomic diversity of debutante balls than in the past, most girls who debut have a certain social stature. Lyman knew almost everyone at the two balls she attended. “It’s all the New York inner private school circles and the people that left and went to prep schools,” she says...