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DIED. JEAN MARAIS, 84, swashbuckling French screen idol of the '40s and '50s; in Cannes, France. Marais got his break as the beast in the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast, co-directed by his longtime lover, the artist Jean Cocteau. A wildly popular pinup for women and men alike, the actor starred in 70 movies...
...very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty of love in the flesh...
...Muslim, a lover of film and television, and a sucker for military intrigue movies, I decided to see the movie for myself. To get a more objective perspective, I invited Ramy M. Adeeb '00 and Mustafa M. Siddiqui '00 to join me. Adeeb, a Christian, is from Egypt, and Siddiqui, a Muslim, lives in Houston; his family is originally from Pakistan...
...relationship completely underemphasizes the power imbalance between slave and master. While Wilentz does note that "It was not remotely a relationship of equals," he argues that Jefferson's attraction to Hemings was not merely physical: "It is said that Hemings spoke French and, it seems, could interest her lover from the neck...
Frederik is not the only character trying desperately to stay young. When actress Desiree Armfeldt (Kate Agresta '02), Frederik's former lover, comes to town, Frederik spies her on stage and escapes his wife for a nighttime tryst. Despite her age, Desiree has not lost her charms, and their ensuing rendez-vous stands out as the most artfully staged and intriguing scene in the play. The audience watches the pair's lovemaking silhouetted through a screen. At the same time, on a different part of the stage, Leonora appears to reminisce about her youth spent manipulating aristocrats and complains that...