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...established his early rep in the '50s, when Egypt rivaled India as the Hollywood of the Arabic-speaking world, and stars like Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama set moviegoers' heart aglow in Islamic countries from Morocco to Indonesia. In 1954 Chahine cast Hamama, who had been in movies since girlhood, and the 22-year-old Sharif, a recent college graduate making his first film, in Siraa Fil-Wadi / The Blazing Sky / Sky of Hell. This Romeo-and-Juliet drama set on sugarcane plantations was Egypt's entry at the Cannes Film Festival, and a pan-Arabic smash. It established...
...many reasons. Because it's Paris, it's this place, it's my girlhood dream come true. Because in 1969, when I was 22, I came to Paris for the first time and stayed just around the corner, in a French crash pad at 9 rue Campagne Premiere. It was a six-floor walk up, with like eight people, and we all slept on the floor. I did a lot of drawings, and taped them all over the walls. And now these drawings are going to be on exhibition here. It's very moving for me. These drawings were done...
...tight-jawed housewife, nearing 50 and careworn, is asked by her son to tell once more of the time in her girlhood when she danced a fox-trot with George Raft. As she recounts the one public moment when she ever felt attractive, her face softens and she reveals a hidden sense of humor, of naughtiness, of delight. The son responds with glee: "There's a whole movie in this story, ma. And one day I'm going to write it." Then he asks her to dance. He holds her in his arms, standing in for the absent father...
Angela Hult of Portland, Ore., cherishes girlhood memories of peacefully trolling on Puget Sound, while her father would bait her hook and tell her stories of his boyhood. Now 38 and a community-relations director, Hult spotted an opportunity to share that kind of time with him again. At 70, her dad Jim Hajek was lamenting that his old fishing pals were gone or infirm and that his back pain kept him from making the rugged trips he used to enjoy. He leaped at Angela's offer to fish together at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska. She picked...
...allows for extreme circumstances. The absence of males allows for the effects of gender politics to be felt acutely, but more importantly, it allows for the non-traditional development of its students. The “desire to grow personally” may be fulfilled, but the transition from girlhood to womanhood might not be typical or linear for the Wellesleystudent...