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...Raúl Castro, in 1972, I confess that I did not pay any attention to him at all. I was visiting revolutionary Cuba with a group of young "internationalists"; I was green and wanted to change the world. Fidel was the one that I wanted to see. First I met Vilma Espín, who had joined the revolution before marrying Raúl. That she was from a well-to-do family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women's Federation. People...
...interaction with other characters, however, that Gagnon particularly shines: though his initial dialogue with John Dewis’s satanic Fistula is a trifle stilted, the actors play off each other increasingly well, and his well-deployed balancing of melodrama and pathos in his dealings with his lover Dr. Vilma (Julia Morton ’07) shines...
DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, gangly dancer turned TV star; in Torrance, Calif. Ebsen danced with his sister Vilma on Broadway and later on his own in MGM musicals like Captain January, with Shirley Temple. He was originally cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz before his allergy to the metallic makeup forced him to give up the role to Jack Haley. From 1962 to 1971 he played Jed Clampett, the nouveau riche patriarch of a trans-planted mountain clan, in the popular sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. He followed that up with yet another long-running TV role...
...golden coin was only in high demand for about three weeks last spring, says Vilma Pugh, associate vice president at Cambridgeport Bank...
...three other panelists were Cornell's Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Latino Studies Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Stephen Sumida, and Associate Professor of American Literature at UMass-Amherst Ron Welburn