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Wednesday, Jan 29, 1986
Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart and excerpts from Gap-Toothed Women and Warmth and Wildness (working titles)
Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart: In his latest venture into an American ethnic subculture, Les Blank looks at the lives and customs of Serbian Americans, whose lively traditions most Americans know nothing about. Immigrants from a troubled land who faced seemingly endless hardships in melting-pot America, they are survivors: Serbian "Independence Day" celebrates the Turkish invasion--a defeat of the body, but a victory of the spirit. Made in association with the USC Department of Anthropology. Executive producer, Andrei Simic; associate producer, Vikram Jayanti. (c. 60 mins). Gap-Toothed Women: What do Lauren Hutten, Sandra Day O'Conner and Chaucer's bawdy Wife of Bath have in common? The women in this film come from all walks of life and they all bear the same cross: a space between their front teeth. (15 min. excerpt). Warmth and Wildness Fifteen years after Spend It All, Les Blank returns to Cajun country to take another look at Cajun cooking in Warmth and Wildness. (15 min. excerpt).
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