Word: desdemonas
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Stage Beauty opens with Maria (Claire Danes) standing wistfully in the wings while watching a performance of Othello’s Desdemona by her employer, London’s “leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors ardent aspirations for thespian glory...
...James (Mekhi Phifer), the only black kid in an elite Southern prep school and, gee whiz, a basketball star--a player of great flair, a dark temper and, apparently, no will of his own. Iago is Hugo (Josh Hartnett), the coach's son with a bit of a grudge. Desdemona is Desi (Julia Stiles); Emilia is Emily (Rain Phoenix). As the updated plot is predictably spun out by scripter Brad Kaaya, your response may be a glum "Uh-O." Best to watch the many ovals that Nelson has cleverly worked into the visual design, and to savor Hartnett's handsomely...
...coach, and within days Johnnie Cochran turns up at the player's side and the airwaves are filled with agonized exegeses of the black player-white coach issue. Why, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington is playing Othello in reverse colors: a white man (Patrick Stewart) is Othello; Iago, Desdemona and everyone else is black. Not enough conversation...
...priest and cuts a wide swath through Parisian high society before crashing and burning in the fifth act. It isn't exactly typecasting, she confesses with an all-American grin, but it's a welcome change of pace from the "pedestal-type women" she usually plays, such as Desdemona (in Otello) and Marguerite (Faust...
...where she met and married actor Rick Ross, caught the ear of classical-music-business professionals and began her speedy climb to stardom. James Levine, who two years ago led the season-opening production of Otello at the Met that marked her professional coming of age, says Fleming's Desdemona "already ranks with the very best." The late Sir Georg Solti was instrumental in persuading London Records to sign her to an exclusive contract, making her the first American singer signed by the Europe-based label since Marilyn Horne...