Word: rivera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, some of the best characters have little to do with the plot. Brian Martin does a terrific job as Tess Pattern, a wovewy journalist with a speech impediment. She and Tab Lloyd (Andrew Howard), a 15th-century Geraldo Rivera-Maury Povich type, dig away at the sleazy side of the kingdom, threatening to broadcast everyone's dirty laundry. (Political Subtext...
...show is far from didactic. This is as much as anything a musical about the magic of musicals, and its title character -- sultrily sung and danced with eyebrow-high kicks by Chita Rivera at 60, an age when she qualifies for a senior citizen's London bus pass -- is pure fantasy, a bygone film goddess whose camp theatrics provide the personal mythology of the gay prisoner brilliantly played by Carver. When life becomes awful, he escapes into reveries of scenes from her films. And when life becomes truly unsustainable, he joins her forever in a brightly lit world of soft...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...Wanda Rivera, a store register worker hired on October 6, said she was told of the closing only after she started work. "They said they were going to place us at other stores" she said...
...photos, drawn from all stages of Bravo's career, convey a sense of the precision Rivera praised. Bravos most striking characteristic is a crystalline, sometimes stark vision of his country's landscape and people. Light and shadow appear as palpable entities in these photos. Bravo's clearsightedness proves especially valuable in portraying the reality of Mexico, a nation so steeped in stereotype for Americans. His uncompromising view drains these images of any sentimentality or quaintness. At their best, these scenes of everyday Mexican life and death appear iconic and timeless...