Word: maids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children. The racial theme--"I was a servant in my father's house," says Marie's brother, describing their white father's rejection of them--is provocative without pontification. And there are fluid and poetic bits of staging, as when Marie casts a voodoo spell on her maid, snipping a ribbon as the girl's limbs collapse...
...amazing what an eight-inch blade will do for an empty gun, even sheathed, and what a little savagery will do for a soldier-in-training who's beginning to think he's going to maid academy...
...Maid of Orleans has always been played as an innocent speaking truth to corrupt power. In this version of the story, Milla Jovovich goes a step further and plays her as God-addled--all heat, energy and passion, a teenager who doesn't begin to think calmly until it's too late. This makes for a lively, nutty film, one full of clumsy, clanging battles filmed by the gifted, eccentric Besson (La Femme Nikita) with bloody brio. Besson is less confident of his genius with the court intrigues that bring Joan down, but that's where all the good actors...
DIED. BENNO SCHMIDT, 86, pioneer venture capitalist, health-policy adviser to several Presidents and father of former Yale president Benno C. Schmidt Jr.; in New York City. A J.H. Whitney partner, Schmidt backed risky start-ups, including Minute Maid orange juice--which he at first deemed "tinny" in taste...
...season opener, a character calls her Salvadoran maid a "tamale" (NBC replaced the word with "honey...