Word: varela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dollars--the $30 million-plus cost of this mini-series is piddling. But for TV, it's colossal. So what do those big bucks buy? Lavish spectacle, a Dynasty-style version of Cleopatra's romances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, and just about zero chemistry between Leonor Varela's Cleopatra and Billy Zane's Antony. Zane (Titanic) makes a stalwart Roman general (and so does Timothy Dalton as Caesar), but pretty, pouty Varela lacks utterly the "infinite variety" that Shakespeare attributed to history's most famous vamp...
...Best performance] "Leonor Varela was as unlike Cleopatra as Elizabeth Taylor. But she looked pretty...
...mark of cultural pride. But on the day of the dedication, supporters of the name change showed up at the school to find a group of blacks there too--protesting. They thought the Latinos wanted to honor Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, and they disapproved. Recalls Matias Varela, a Hispanic resident who heads the county's arts council: "It was a total misunderstanding between the two groups." Or perhaps it was the clearest sign that such conflicts might be eased if the two groups were to spend some time swapping stories about each other's political struggles...
...obscenely easy," says Manuel S. Varela '94, who took the course during the spring of 1992. "Students really should not receive college credit...
...have two other friends who took the course," Varela says. "Both attended zero percent of the lectures and ended up with A-minuses. Not only that, but for the midterm they were supposed to read the play "The Wild Duck' by Henrick Ibsen. They rented the movie instead and both...