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Summers called Altshuler, who is Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, “an outstanding scholar, a distinguished public servant, and an able administrator...
...years later, Wong did appear in the adaptation of a Pearl Buck novel, The Patriot, on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse (successor to his Mercury Theatre on the Air), supported by future Citizen Kane co-stars Ray Collins and Everett Sloane (as Chiang Kai-shek!). Wong played Peony, a servant in the house of the mandarin-turned-revolutionary I-Wan (Welles). Again she gets star billing; again she has a small role...
...weird, sad exit for an honorable public servant. British Home Secretary David Blunkett, the country's chief law-enforcement officer, had no choice but to resign when an inquiry unearthed an e-mail and fax showing his office had helped speed up a residency permit for his ex-lover's nanny. The offense was tiny - the nanny was entitled to the permit anyway - but Blunkett had insisted there had been no intervention at all. (He later said he had forgotten the e-mail and fax.) Several missteps had steered him toward this patch of political quicksand. The public seemed willing...
...humanity to the character—you don’t hate her at the end of the movie. Vega, star of Spanish hits Sex Y Lucia and Talk to Her, stubbornly refuses to make Flor a type character, replacing the ignorant, meek characteristics of the non-English speaking servant with nobility and confidence...
...play centers on upper-class society, but most of the powerful scenes take place in offbeat situations, like a secret meeting in the red-light district and a midnight cross-dressing spree in an outdoor produce market. It is the servant couple, played by Karen MacDonald and Thomas Derrah, who hilariously propel the plot through some of its most crucial twists and turns. Their second act tryst summarizes all the characters’ struggles between the forbidden desires, ethical dilemmas and stifling social conventions which they constantly confront in their lives...