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...Braga has a three-part undertaking. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, two prisoners, played by Raul Julia and William Hurt, pass time in jail as Hurt's character recounts the plots of early Hollywood movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend. Of the three, Braga found Leni the most intriguing "because she was a woman of the '40s like Joan Crawford." But with Braga around, who needs to be nostalgic...
Many Swiss women felt betrayed by the vote. "We live in a patriarchal society," proclaimed Marie-Therese Gwerder, Switzerland's most popular television announcer. Said Leni Robert, an independent member of Parliament...
...Holly wood, Charlie Chaplin thoughtfully ar ranged an orgy for Buñuel, and in New York, the power of the Roman Catholic Church was flexed to remove him from an editing job at the Museum of Modern Art (where one of his tasks had been to cut Leni Riefenstahl's Nazified master piece. Triumph of the Will, to half its length for U.S. consumption). By the time Buñuel got around to directing his first fiction feature...
...successful vaccine would finally put an end to the age-old taint that lepers bear. Even today, patients, though treated and no longer contagious, carry the onus. "I feel ashamed," says Leni Ignosta, 20, a Los Angeles welder who contracted leprosy five years ago in Samoa before moving to the U.S. "I don't want anybody to know I have it, not even my family. I wanted to stay in the U.S., but I think I'll go back to Samoa and live by myself...
...entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...