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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — As if an unflattering Broadway play weren't enough. Now, Hollywood's plans to cast Madonna as Evita Peron has Argentina crying for its legendary first lady.
Madonna as Evita causes stir
The Associated Press
The president is outraged. The archbishop calls it blasphemy. A local filmmaker has launched his own production, with official support, to set the record straight.
Bo's film, to be called "Evita: The True Story," is backed by President Carlos Menem, who is a Peronist, and will feature a squeaky-voiced Argentine soap opera star, Andrea del Boca. Production is to begin in March.
"Evita was a pioneering feminist, not the prostitute others would have you believe," said movie producer Victor Bo.
While the Broadway musical "Evita" painted the second and most famous wife of dictator Juan Peron as a corrupt populist who slept her way to power, the Argentine production will promote her image as a
champion of the masses.
They didn't take kindly to the Broadway musical, which was banned in Argentina. And
for many of the former first lady's fervent admirers, casting Madonna in a film version of "Evita" only adds insult to injury.
Madonna
To many
Argentinees,
Eva Peron was
nothing less
than a saint.
"A total and utter disgrace," said President Menem. The Argentine version, he said, will be "a film about the real Evita, not like one of those fakes people who know nothing about her life have been making."
Antonio Quaraccino, archbishop of Buenos Aires, called Madonna "pornographic and blasphemous. An insult to Argentine women."
The Hollywood version of "Evita," directed by Alan Parker, is set to go into production in January, and will
be filmed mostly in Budapest, Hungary, a decision that producers said was based on budgetary and not political concerns.
In 1993, Menen granted American filmmaker Oliver Stone access to the presidential office to film his own version of "Evita." The president changed his mind a week later after many Peronists protested. Stone later scrapped the project.
Few subjects split Argentines as passionately as Evita's controversial legacy.
Admirers still hang her portrait in their homes, and her name is evoked in political and union rallies. But detractors are inclined to agree with composer Andrew Lloyd Weber, who before his musical's 1979 opening said Evita was "easily the most unpleasant character I've written about."
Eva Duarte met Peron in 1945, as he was preparing for the presidency, and a decade after she came to the capital to be a stage and radio actress.
They were married a year later, and almost immediately, Evita
became a heroine to the poor masses and blue-collar workers. She helped get women the vote, and her Eva Peron Foundation built schools and hospitals and bought gifts for needy children.
All state workers were obliged to contribute two days' salary per year to her charity, money her detractors claim was siphoned off for private use.
Despite claims that she despised the rich, Evita would appear in public wearing expensive gowns and jewelry.
On one occasion she explained her predicament: "Tonight you see me in disguise, wearing these loathsome trappings I have to put on because of my job. Pay no attention. You know I would rather be with you."
After she died at the age of 33, her husband asked the Vatican to make her a martyr. The request was turned down.
City promotes use of English only
Said Bo, the filmmaker. "She never got the credit she deserved."
The Associated Press
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — "One Flag, One Country," says the old downtown monument in Allentown, Pa. But 18 languages are spoken in the valley it overlooks. This fact strains the sense of community hailed by the stone inscription.
Cities like this one, swollen by newcomers, their words and their ways, are driving efforts around the country and now in Washington to make English the official language.
While typically limited by the law to making governments speak in one language, the push has wider goals: speeding assimilation, upending the linguistic ghettoes that keep foreign schoolchildren in their native tongue, and in some cases discouraging immigration.
"I'm an architect. We build the foundation first," said Mauro Mujica, a Chilean immigrant leading the group U.S. English and the fight to make English the official language.
A year after Allentown passed an ordinance urging the exclusive use of English in government, little has changed. So few documents were printed in other languages that Mayor William Heydt pegged savings at $36.
The Republican called the law, which he neither signed nor vetoed, absolutely meaningless.
More than 20 states and 40 municipalities have laws declaring English the official language and setting or urging limits on the use of other languages by government.
Bills introduced in the House and Senate appear to have wide GOP support, and polls suggest most Americans like the idea. However, it has been defined faintly.
As in Allentown, little would change in Washington, at least on the surface.
Advocates of a federal language law could find only 265 foreign-language documents produced by the U.S. government in five years out of 400,000 checked.
Most documents addressed health and safety issues and would be exempted from an English mandate.But even that scant multilingualism is too much for some as it trickles into other areas.
"I had to blow up Seventh Street in three languages," Heydt said, recalling the English, Spanish and Vietnamese warning signs posted for a round of urban demolition.
Kids come to school speaking 18 languages and are shoelorned into three — primarily English in recently integrated classrooms, supplemented by in-class Spanish and Arabic tutoring.
Nationally, the Census Bureau found immigrants spreading from big cities to small towns and suburbs.
In response, Montana, South Dakota and New Hampshire recently joined the ranks of official English states.
Similar efforts failed under governors' vetoes in Maryland and Georgia and failed completely in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Army asks soldiers, civilians to revere flag
The Associated Press
Others have shouted obscenities at those who stop to observe the flag-lowering ceremony. Some claim not to know what is required of them.
FREDERICK, Md. — Some soldiers and civilians at the Army base here duck into buildings to avoid saluting Old Glory.
Sgt. Maj. David Faiello, who is in charge of enlisted personnel at Fort Detrick, views it all as an affront to those people who fought under the red-white-and-blue.
Faiello has ordered military police to warn anyone who disregards Army policy during the solemn flaglowering ceremony, held daily at twilight. There are 4,700 civilian and military personnel at the base.
Faiello issued the order after his call for respect was largely ignored.
"He was upset by it," base representative Norm Covert said. "He served, and others served in uniform fighting for that flag, and it deserves our respect. People do it at baseball games."
At 5 p.m. every day, a cannon is fired on the first note of "To the Colors!" and the flag is lowered slowly during a ceremony that lasts about one minute.
As the music starts, civilians and soldiers are required to stop and turn toward the flag, Covert said. Soldiers are required to salute; civilians are required to hold their hands over their hearts.
Cars also should stop, and their occupants should observe the ceremony, he said.
Faiello has ordered that four officers be posted around the base to stop cars during the ceremony and that the officers note the license plates of those who do not stop.
He also has instructed military police to issue verbal warnings to violators and to educate those who claim not to know about the policy.
"We had an incident recently when a military driver stopped his car and got out to salute, and several drivers behind him got very angry and shouted obscentities at him," Faiello said. "There is just no excuse for this."
Officers have not begun issuing written citations, which would require violators to receive counseling from their supervisors, but that could start if infractions continue. Covert said.
"I don't think some people are ignoring it as much as they don't know what's going on." Covert said. "Then, there are always those in a hurry to go pick up their child at day care."
Spc. LaShawn Brown, who is on
the flag detail, said that a few more people had been showing respect for the flag and that some had gone to extremes to get around it.
"A lot of people try to hide. They duck back in the buildings," Brown said.
Stop and salute, soldier
Compliance, however, appeared strong Monday evening.
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