Auschwitz, Porrajmos; Other matters...

So much to write about... but over the weekend I lost two fairly decent blog entries while trying to finish them. Too painful to blog about.

One was about an interview Carlo heard last Saturday morning on the talk show "uomini e profeti" on italian radio 3 (rai), about what was done to European Roma people during WW II. They said in Rom language they call it the Porrajmos - "il divoramento" - the devouring. That's a terribly powerful image.

The Hebrew community in Italy [UCEI.it] has helped the Roma with their project on that history.

I'll deal with the 2nd lost blog later. I intend to come back to them but probably not right now.

I re-discovered the Jamerican (Jamaican-American) actor Frank Silvera when [Rupert Murdoch's] Sky international satellite broadcast the 1955 movie "Killer's Kiss"; that would be a Stanley Kubrick flick.

It's a shame the cool things one never sees or hears of again in the USA. Luckily Silvera is the inspiration for Garland Lee Thompson's respected Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop [fsww.org] based in Harlem (upper Manhattan), New York. It's a place for playwrights, actors, directors, producers, designers & others. FSWW is also involved with the annual National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Aug 1-6, 2005).

From the 1940s/50s till his death in a home accident in 1970 (repairing the sink electric garbage disposal!) Frank Silvera was a major actor - from New York theatre & Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival to Hollywood and back. Just check his bio on IMdB.

But then you look at posters from the movies he was in - like "Killer's Kiss" and "Viva Zapata" and more; but you probably won't find him since even he couldn't overcome the marketing ban against Blacks/people of colo(u)r which today has only been modified. Compared to that I wonder what the NY theatre/Broadway documentation is like.

The next few days we'll be busy - & I'll be skiing!! Not sure exactly what time I'll blog (or if I'll blog early) but we shall see.

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[owukori]

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