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...last of Hoffmann's triad of heartbreaking heroines is the conniving courtesan Giulietta (Heidi Brown). A slave to the evil Dappertutto (again played by Benaim), she tries to steal the soul of Hoffman by capturing his reflection in a mirror. She abandons Hoffmann after he engages in a bloody duel with her wealthy suitor Schlemil (James Capobianco...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Dunster House Opera Spins Rousing 'Tales' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...Larry Roller, president of Save Our State Song, commenting on Virginia's anthem about a freed slave who longs to be reunited with his "massa and missis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

...trailer and a seven-figure salary, consider the career of Parker Posey. At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films. Yet to get to the set of Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, where she played the leading lady's "eternal love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned the sum of $75 a day. On another movie she lent the producers her credit card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: QUEEN OF THE INDIES | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Ashong will have a leading role in Spielberg's film, Amistad, which focuses on a slave mutiny during antebellum times...

Author: By Martin G. Hickey, | Title: BSA President Leaves Harvard To Star in Movie | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Amistadrefers to a slave ship on which a group of captive Africans revolted in 1839. Under the leadership of Joseph Cinque, they took control of the ship and tried to return to Africa...

Author: By Martin G. Hickey, | Title: BSA President Leaves Harvard To Star in Movie | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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