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Images are political --Actor David Oyelowo, Inspector Javert in Les Misérables A trend that's on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, color-blind casting opens opportunities for actors of color, and makes dramas accessible to new audiences who can recognize themselves in the faces of the actors.
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[I] looked in the direction whence the noise proceeded, and saw a party of cavalry in blue and white uniform, come trotting sword in hand, around the corner of a garden wall, and to the front of a row of new houses, where they reined up for a line. ...On
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Nurse Valerie Dyer: Did we do the right thing? Bringing her here? Mother Julienne: The word midwife means with woman. A woman in that situation needs someone by her side whatever mistakes or choices brought her to our door. It’s 1964 and things are changing in Poplar on Call
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It’s not just Downton Abbey. In just about every show imported from Britain there’s a common denominator: tea. Tea is very important to the British and has been for almost four hundred years. It helped win World War II—in 1942, Britain bought up virtually all the tea
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I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs… Anne Lister/Gentleman Jack Anne Lister, diarist, mountaineer, and explorer (1791–1840), nicknamed Gentleman Jack, is once again in the spotlight, although her home town of