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...Iraqi academics who got there first; Ali has made one futile job-hunting trip to Damascus. Now Jordan and Syria are beginning to turn people back from the border. Ubaid is concerned that it may be years before they can get married. "I will be an old maid, with no teeth, and he will have no hair," she jokes. The alternative, of course, still seems even worse. For lovers in Iraq, happily ever after is only possible somewhere else...
...have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lockjawed mouse. The movie begins at the deathbed of Redgrave's Ann Lord, whose thoughts, in her final moments, have turned to a young doctor named Harris (Patrick Wilson), whom she met when she was maid of honor at her best friend's wedding in Newport, R.I. a half century earlier. The bride (Gummer) loved Harris too, but it is Ann (played as a young woman by Danes), an aspiring jazz singer, who gets close to him. Instructive tragedy, however, interrupts their romantic interlude, warning them...
...weeks later, on that year's Floating Film Festival, he brought Mary into a Q&A on the book, again championing her cause (and on karaoke night sang "The Union Maid" in her honor). He volunteered to testify for Mary in the National Labor Relations Board trial that followed; and when he was ready to issue a second volume of Great Movies, he asked Mary again to do the photo selection, though she was no longer in charge of a picture archive. It happens that, five years later, the Museum has reopened in much larger quarters, but its 4 million...
...somehow he retains it all. He has a memory that's both photographic (enabling him to recall virtually every shot from every film he's seen) and phonographic. On one indelible occasion at the 2002 Floating Film Festival, he and cinematographer Haskell Wexler sang Woody Guthrie's "The Union Maid" - and Roger performed not just the chorus ("Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union, / I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die") but every verse. Roger had picked it off a Pete Seeger record he heard when he was younger and repeated...
WHETHER HE was playing a snobbish lawyer masterly deflating bigot Archie Bunker or performing Shakespeare on the New York City stage, Emmy-winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne emanated sophistication. Despite a few racist critics (his reply to one who said he sounded white: "I had a white maid"), the man with the tuneful baritone and restrained style crafted a reputation as an expert character actor in such diverse roles as a spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, a gay police informant in the 1968 film Up Tight!, the erudite butler on TV's Soap and the eloquent narrator...