Word: protesters
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Although she makes films elsewhere, Hollywood has not cast Redgrave since Yanks in 1979. She has secured only sporadic U.S. TV work. Other actors report that merely suggesting her for a role is enough to damage their own careers. The protest peaked in 1982, when the woman whom Redgrave was playing called for her to be ousted from the Emmy-winning lead in Arthur Miller's CBS-TV drama Playing for Time. Politics also excluded her from being cast in the Broadway drama Plenty. That same year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, allegedly fearful of disruptions and of losing donor support...
Happily, thus far Orpheus has met no protest, according to co-producer Elizabeth McCann. Says she: "Redgrave is controversial, and controversy brings a certain degree of risk. I'm not kidding myself that there aren't people out there still deeply hurt or offended by her views...
...crowd of 85 pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered before Johnston Gate yesterday afternoon to protest the presence of an Israeli general as a 1989-1990 fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA...
...have three goals in mind: To get Mitzna out of Harvard, to end U.S. aid for Israeli oppression and to stop Israeli atrocities in the West Bank and Gaza," said Donald H. Veach, protest organizer and steering committee member of the Cambridge coalition of students and residents...
...Under the limits of the government and the army, he dealt with the situation very well," she said. Mitzna's presence as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs has sparked protest among pro- Palestinian activists in Cambridge this fall...