Word: diana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role cries out for someone with the versatility, verve, sensuality, humor, and bearing of black actress Diana Sands. Which raises another point: although she is often described as pure Greek, the historical Cleopatra was actually of racially mixed ancestry and would today be classified as Negro. The opening speech of Shakespeare's play calls her "tawny," and she even refers to herself as "black...
...grandmother Ada (Uta Hagen), a transplanted Russian who repeats adages like "God does not mean that we miss too much what he takes from us," and "As we came from the earth, so are we returned to it." Grandmother needs all her homely folk wisdom, for her daughter Alexandra (Diana Muldaur) has been driven mad-not by Granny's dialogue, as might be imagined, but by Mysterious Events. Alexandra sulks around the place in her all-violet wardrobe, and can be discovered from time to time near the closed-over well in the front yard, prostrate with grief...
...unabashed sex comedy, a Myra Breckenridgian imbroglio of ungodly carryings-on among ancient deities. Cavalli's music floats along, endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear, then into the constellation...
...Cincinnati students played their ribald roles with enormous style and verve, coping with the 17th century music as if it were as familiar as La Boheme. Set Designer Paul Shortt's floating clouds, silver rain and heavenly chariots were magically effective. The double Diana switched her sex with dazzling ease, garnering great applause from Cincinnati's sophisticates-and some rather hysterical giggles from startled youngsters who came unprepared for a lesbian love duet. "R.T.J...
...Puerto Rican moviemakers, with 53 apprentices now working, and a film school is in the planning stages. TWC's film plans are appropriately ambitious. They include a biography of Billie Holiday (Motown, a black record company, is already shooting its version of the Billie Holiday story, starring Diana Ross), a film from the works of Puerto Rican Author Piri Thomas, and an adaptation of John O. Killens' chilling war novel, And Then We Heard the Thunder...