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Filming the Family--Miriam Weinstein, institute fellow, Agassiz House...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...
...painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Its first show, "Resurgiemento," included Artist Domingo Garcia, whose work is in the city's Museum of Modern Art collection. Miriam ColÓn, whose Puerto Rican Traveling Theater gives summertime performances in ghetto streets from the back of a flatbed truck, has opened the first Hispanic off-Broadway theater in a recycled West Side firehouse and will offer plays in both English and Spanish. On the Lower East Side...
Monday, October 16: Poetry reading by Lewis Hyde and Miriam Levine. Alumnae Lounge, 7 pm, free...
...secrecy in which it was made. Rogosin, his crew, and the actors risked their "freedom" to making this film. Second, though none of the actors in the film (save one) was a professional at the time, the performances are by and large excellent. The only professional is Miriam Makeba, who is inserted in the film near the end--breaking up an intriguing political discussion--to sing a few of the songs that would make her famous just two or three years later when Harry Belafonte "discovered...