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...cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also in the works: legendary American tales and Bible stories. The videos are being run on the Showtime cable network, and Raul Julia is recording them in Spanish...
More recently, Denzel Washington portrayed royal white villain Richard III in this part summer's Central Park Shakespeare series, sponsored by The New York Public Theatre. "We have been casting across racial lines since producer Joseph Papp started the Theatre in 1954" explains a Theatre spokesperson. "Morgan Freeman appeared recently in our production of The Taming of the Shrew...
...there. My instant fear turned to instant relief when on hearing my identity they literally opened their arms to "our brother." Astonishingly, all had seen Cry Freedom, and their questions had less to do with the national situation than with what the stars of the movie, Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington, were like and how the crowd scenes had been filmed...
RICHARD III. Shakespeare's equivalent of Saddam Hussein, the power-mad usurper who will do anything, is suddenly everywhere: Ian McKellen acts him in London, Stacy Keach in an upcoming Washington staging and Oscar-winner Denzel Washington (Glory) in New York City's Central Park. Are producers more farsighted than...
...point, then as now, was that stage and screen are places of sublime pretense where audiences can make believe that any actor is perfect for any role. A woman can play Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt); a black man can play Shakespeare (Morgan Freeman as Petruchio, Denzel Washington as Richard III in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare series in New York City's Central Park). Some call it inspired casting. Others, like producer Dominick Balletta of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, call it affirmative action. "Nontraditional casting was meant to create opportunities for actors of color," he says, "not to take jobs away...