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...defected from Cuba in 1990, has a new album out titled Hot House (N2K). Cuba is also going Hollywood. In August, Columbia Pictures will release Dance with Me, a salsa-spiced love story about a Cuban immigrant (played by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne) who falls for an American dancer (Vanessa Williams); the lively Latin sound track features several Cuban artists, including the already mainstream emigres Jon Secada and Gloria Estefan. "On the album we have Vanessa and Chayanne both singing in Spanish and English," says Tammy Lester, the sound track's associate producer. "Hopefully, this will bring a whole...
...half-century later, Vanessa Redgrave came to the rescue. While researching her role in Williams' Orpheus Descending a few years ago, the actress discovered a reference the playwright made to his forgotten early work: "I have never written anything since then that could compete with it in violence and horror." She tracked down the manuscript at the University of Texas and eventually showed it to Trevor Nunn, the acclaimed British director (Nicholas Nickleby; Cats) who is now artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. Nunn's first reaction was surprise that there was no role in it for Redgrave...
...Warner Bros. prison films of the '30s as well. Not About Nightingales is paced like a movie, with short scenes that skip willy-nilly from warden's office to cell block, from mess hall to prison yard. The warden (played with fine, greasy intensity by Corin Redgrave, Vanessa's brother) is a sadistic dictator with no redeeming features. The convicts include a bullet-headed tough guy who organizes a hunger strike (James Black); a sympathetically rendered homosexual called Queenie (Jude Akuwudike); and the inevitable "new boy" (Mark Dexter), who arrives at the prison with dreams of running...
...technological and cultural possibilities of broadcasting live video over the Internet. Instead, your article appears to give blatant support to a practice that is degrading to both genders of the human race. If I had wanted to read about and see pornography, I would have subscribed to Playboy. VANESSA HAYS Morton...
Wang, playing in the top singles spot, was downed in straight sets by Blue Devil Vanessa Webb, the eventual 1998 NCAA singles champion. It all went downhill from there as the Crimson was unable to pull out a single victory in the match...