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...Powell and Emeric Pressburger over who would win her services, either as a Himalayan dancing girl in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) or as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948). The directors finally agreed to rearrange their schedules so Simmons could appear in both films. In Black Narcissus she donned brownface to play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond-wigged "most beautified Ophelia" is another willful creature, no less flirtatious with her brother Laertes than she is crazy for Hamlet...
That's a grudging remark to make about an actress who had 60 years of film and TV roles ahead of her. After playing in a few other British films, notably as Emmeline the nubile castaway (the role that brought stardom to Brooke Shields three decades later) in Frank Launder...
Advisers also warn investors to choose larger ETFs over smaller start-up ones, especially when it comes to global and emerging-market funds. Unlike mutual funds, investors face price spreads when buying and selling ETFs, and these spreads can be quite wide - spanning several percentage points in some cases - when...
Is there any aspect of human experience that you don't think science can touch? Oh, absolutely. What happens after permanent death - after we're no longer able to interview people - is an absolute. To that extent, the work I do may always require some element of faith. But by...
But is it really a good deal? After all, you're still spending a little more than half of the purchase price of a new copy of Principles of Economics for one that you won't be able to resell (or for the right to look at a digital version...