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...Adam. The painted figure, from the Sistine ceiling's Creation of Adam, is very little changed from this life study. In the drawing, though, his face is only sketched in-the final version has the artist's favorite idealized head. Like all the ignudi, Adam looks like the young Marlon Brando. In a detailed study for one of the ignudi, the model's own features are lightly indicated-a rare occurrence, as Michelangelo avoided portraiture. According to his contemporary, the famous chronicler Giorgio Vasari, "he abhorred anything from life unless it was of the utmost beauty." Occasionally, though, he pulled...
From The Jazz Singer to White Chicks, the history of black- and whiteface in entertainment has generally not been one of high social purpose. But starting March 8, an FX reality show is betting that the same magic that made Marlon Wayans look like Paris Hilton can be used to start a dialogue about what race means. In Black. White. (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a provocative and valuable reality-TV experiment, two families of different races live life in each other's skin...
DIED. OFELIA FOX, 82, manager and "first lady" of Havana's famed Tropicana nightclub during its 1950s heyday, when regulars included Marlon Brando and Joan Crawford; in Burbank, Calif. With its casino, showgirls and lavish stage shows, the club was a renowned hot spot before Castro took it over...
Mauger is 32 years old. He works 32 hours per week as a grill cook for Quincy House. His hair is black and slick; his voice is low and measured. He’s not like Paul Simon at all. If anything, he evokes a young Marlon Brando—thoughtful, charismatic, and more than a little frightening when he describes the life he left behind...
...Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads...