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With the fervor of a preacher rallying his congregation, Ogletree’s speech inspired the occasional “amen” from the crowd of 250 as he said that the Bush administration has ignored the needs of African-Americans, cited the eventual failure of many 1960s civil rights initiatives and warned that Dr. King’s battles had “just begun...
...role he seems genetically engineered to play--man in loooove. In Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella's captivating Civil War epic from the Charles Frazier book, Law embodies the cinematic romantic hero down to the chest hair. He plays Inman, a curt country carpenter who falls for the new preacher's sophisticated daughter (Nicole Kidman). They share perhaps six awkward conversations (his declaration of love: "It's like when you wake up and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody") and one kiss before he marches off. To get back to her, he has to battle not only Yankees...
When Ada (Nicole Kidman) arrives in Cold Mountain with her preacher father (Donald Sutherland), her refinement startles the citizenry; they must reconfigure their notions of perfection. Inman (Jude Law) has never looked that high. His eye has been on the plow, the nail to be hammered. But Ada and the approach of war bring a clarity to his ambitions. He wants her heart, and she lets him pack it on his journey into battle...
BlackCAST produces this poignant and provocative tale of the all-or-nothing fiery preacher Margaret Alexander with a heart and hand of iron. She rules her black Pentecostal congregation with conviction and unwavering certainty, until her ex-husband returns, penitent, with sorrowing news. The Reverend’s hard ideas of right and wrong soften with his appearance, as she begins to question the nature of her previous stubbornness. A VES production. 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Tickets $8; students $5; seniors $5. Adams House Pool Theater...
Hawkins choreographed and performed with Expressions during her junior fall semester, and is playing the lead role of Preacher in the upcoming BLACKCast performance of James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner, opening this week in the Adams Pool Theatre. She has taken an active part in the community of black students at Harvard, chairing the Freshman Black Table in Annenberg as a first-year, and subsequently serving as the publications chair of the Black Students’ Association, and historian of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW...