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...Dorathea Manuela, a member of the Third World Women's Caucus, said at the rally, "The Supreme Court must understand that if they uphold Bakke, they will be responsible for a reaction the likes of which they've never seen before...
...compromise. Says Nykvist: "Ingmar and I agreed to shoot color in black and white." Although most of the film captures the dark, gray quality of drab Berlin, Bergman has punctuated the gloom with bright and often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform badly a bawdy German ballad called I Have a Sweet Bonbon for the audience of the sleazy cabaret called the Blue Mule...
...dusk light for dawn, he shot tired Berliners plodding to work at the first light of morning-normality amid pending catastrophe -while buses, trolleys, cars and carts clattered around the curving street. At the other end of the set, Nykvist shot Carradine pushing through the crowds to arrive at Manuela's cabaret at twilight. The realism was enhanced by a cold rain that began to splash on cars and pedestrians. Soon the street lights were turned on and the final take of the parade was in the can. "We did it," said Nykvist. "We did here what...
...slams against the low-hung tar-paper roof of the dirt-floor shack he rents on the edge of a gravel pit in the hills above Mexico City. Sometimes he gets a day's work in the gravel pit for $6.40, but it is not regular work. His wife, Manuela, earns $45 a month as a maid. Their six-month-old son lies sleeping on the family...
Author Aguilera Malta, a noted Ecuadorian writer, was able to draw on the best possible source for this historical novel: Manuela herself. In addition to her other activities, she was the official archivist for Bolívar's army, and her records document much of the tragedy, trivia and triumph that accompanied the 14-year battle to drive the godos (Spaniards) out of Latin America...