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Thomas Wolfe once said that only the dead know Brooklyn. He never met photographer Thomas Roma, who doesn't just live in Brooklyn, he gets it. When Roma goes to a public pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that...
SEEKING DIVORCE. ROMA DOWNEY, 34, haloed heroine of Touched by an Angel; from director DAVID ANSPAUGH...
Years ago, you only heard about a large company like General Electric going into the international marketplace," says Roma Malkani. "But now I can stand up against a Lockheed Martin. [Foreign buyers] are looking for niche companies like...
...show that got the reformation rolling was Touched by an Angel. In 1993 CBS went hunting for something fluffy to cash in on the New Age angel craze. What it got instead from executive producer Martha Williamson was some heavy religious programming. Each week three angels (Della Reese, Roma Downey and John Dye) come to earth to counsel souls in crisis. Basically, they tell them to shut up and trust God, and then the angel of death takes someone away. It is great melodrama--Job replayed weekly--but pretty tough stuff. Nervous CBS execs ordered six episodes--and prepared...
CEFERINO JIMENEZ MALLA When in Roma...Spanish horse trader is the first Gypsy beatified by the Catholic Church...