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...salvation for Irving in Director Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey. The star, playing a Manhattan bookstore manager named Isabelle Grossman, is made to look tired and behave with moral myopia. Can't Isabelle see that the European author (Jeroen Krabbe) who courts her is just one more serpent-eyed wordsmith who would flatter a pretty woman's intellect to soften her resolve? Can't she tell that sweet-souled Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), a pickle salesman from the old neighborhood, is the guy for her? Isabelle's Yiddishe grandma (Reizl Bozyk) can tell, in cliches that fall from...
...tired of arguments comparing Opening Day fans to Adam and Eve, pre-serpent. I'm tired of people insisting that Opening Day induces a blissful state of innocence and encourages fans to believe that any and all dreams may be realized...
...days later the so-called Organization of the Oppressed on Earth delivered to a Western news agency a statement typed in Arabic declaring its responsibility for the abduction. Enclosed were snapshots of two of Higgins' identity cards. The statement read: "We have caught the throat of the American serpent, criminal agent of the satanic CIA and one of the biggest spies, sowing daily terror in our land." Mindful that an earlier hostage, CIA Station Chief William Buckley, had been tortured to death by his abductors, the State Department denied any links between the kidnaped colonel and the U.S. intelligence services...
...Serpent and the Rainbow comes out of a collaboration between two Harvard graduates, executive producer, Rob Cohen '71 and author of the book, Wade Davis '75. In an interview with The Crimson, Cohen and Davis shed some insight on the making of the film...
...Voodoo Fire in Haiti, Puritan In Voodoo Land. And they were full of zombies crawling out of the grave attacking people, and voodoo dolls and pins that don't even exist. This led to Hollywood movies like I Walked with A Zombie and Zombies on Broadway. I think what [Serpent] attempts to do is give a positive portrayal of a culture at the thrust of change. The whole point of The Serpent and the Rainbow is to take a phenomenon which has been used in an explicitly racist way to denigrate an entire people and turn it on its head...