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Weiss, a history and literature concentrator, is the ballet mistress and former director of the Harvard Ballet Company...
...Quiet American's central trio--an English reporter (Michael Caine), his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and the young U.S. official (Brendan Fraser) who comes between them--represents the Europeans, Vietnamese and Americans who danced on a slippery geopolitical slope that led straight into the Big Muddy. But they are mainly three points on a triangle of love, lust and rancor in a land where emotion, no less than pan-national idealism, revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril. Bedfellows make strange...
...Another two-character play, and the two women are the wife of a man who has just left her for a younger woman and the man's long-time mistress. Had anyone put this trope on stage before David Hare? A small, pretty, witty play given snap and stature by the presence of its stars, "The Breath of Life" reveals a major playwright in the narrowing career journey from the political epics of his early years to the intimate, no-less-barbed confrontations of "Amy's View" and this two-hander. Some theatergoers wanted to follow this trajectory; most wanted...
...They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment...
...assume the answer involves physical intimacy. I probe my mother about her dalliances with my father in Saigon and she claims not to remember the details. Still, I suspect that before she was my mother she was my father’s mistress. I asked my relatives to see those romantic missives, but the letters no longer exist. In 1975, when North Vietnam took over the South, my grandmother burned them. She had to destroy the family’s ties to America as the new government searched homes looking for evidence of treachery and conspiracy. I traveled...