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...wonderful gift for language," said Theodore D. Mann, the former artistic director of Circle in the Square. "It's a real loss for theater...
...moviemakers therefore create a character named Mann (Ving Rhames), who drifts into town on horseback just as the tragedy is beginning to unfold. In essence, he's the mysterious stranger of a thousand westerns, eager to avoid conflict but miraculously adept at the killing arts when he is finally obliged to employ them. Ultimately he and John Wright (Jon Voight), the white storekeeper in the town and a reality-based character, make common, inspiring cause to rescue Rosewood's surviving women and children from the swamp where they have taken refuge from the blood-crazed posse searching for them. There...
...grew up in privilege. Her father was a well-connected Jewish financier who made millions on Wall Street and was an adviser to Presidents. Her mother, a writer and socialite, counted among her friends the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and the novelist Thomas Mann. In 1940 Kay married Phil Graham, a charismatic protege of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and later something of a golden boy of the postwar liberal establishment. It was quite a family...
...Even as AIDS has evolved [and changed its concentration from specific demographic populations], the groups that it affects now have added to them the burden of AIDS-related discrimination," Mann says...
...Mann says that in addition to improving treatments and education, "one of the [most important] factors of increased tolerance is knowing someone who is infected -- dealing with a person you know and not an abstraction," he says...