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...ambitious Dédé Duvalier Dominique is, in short, the only person any one can remember who has engaged in a battle of wills with Papa Doc and survived. And local bocors (voodoo witch doctors) claim that she, alone among Duvalier's brood, is his "spiritual daughter." Jean-Claude seems certain to wind up wearing the presidential sash, but it seems equally likely that Dédé and Max will run things once the ailing Papa Doc, 63, takes his leave...
...Shephard gives us two American tourists in a Mexican hotel, confronted with a strange Mexican shoeshine boy who invades their room, rips out their phone, and gives them (and the audience) a brief exegesis of Mayan culture. As the American husband lies dying of dysentery before an absurdly funny witch doctor, the boy assumes his bed, his clothes, his role, and finally, his wife...
...Turista is not the average Woody Allen tourist comedy. It is always engrossing, but also enigmatic, for Shepard never defines his people. Who is mad? Is it the doctor, or is it the patient? Who is sane? The wife, the witch doctor, the Mexican-cum-American-cum-southern black slave narrator? The viewer is just not sure, nor can he be, given Shepard's own lack of clarity. In any case, the acting is top rate, with Jan Egleson excelling in his ability to switch accents and characters in a moment, and Roberta Collinge marvelous as the wife...
...have also been warned, for as long as I served in Government and now by those in the Nixon Administration, of the "right-wing backlash," the new "loss of China" witch-hunt, that would follow such a move. We have been warned of the headlong flight into "isolationism," or "neo-isolationism" that would ensue. Are these real dangers...
...escaped the Nazi gas chambers where millions of defenseless and innocent died, urge you to protest the revival of this medieval form of witch hunt for the sake of political expediency.B-7615; GSAS '55 and 29 others