American soprano Maria Ewing dead of cancer at 71
She was the mother of the actress Rebecca Hall (married to DL lust object Morgan Spector) by her husband and frequent director Sir Peter Hall.
Famous for doing in Los Angeles and London a Dance of the Seven Veils as Strauss's Salome that ended in total nudity. Her uncertainty about her ethnic background (which turned out to be mixed white and African American) prompted her daughter to direct "Passing."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | January 24, 2022 1:13 PM
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Cancer is the real pandemic for the past 50 years
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 12, 2022 11:01 PM
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She was quite fond of cosmetic surgery, as I recall.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 12, 2022 11:03 PM
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Im not clear on how she was confused on her ethnic background ? Was she Meagan before Meagan ?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 13, 2022 12:16 AM
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Explained on FINDING YOUR ROOTS
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | January 13, 2022 12:21 AM
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I enjoy her in a 1992 recording of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
RIP dear lady.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | January 13, 2022 3:06 AM
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Ain't you tired, klan granny, ain't you tired, r4?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 13, 2022 3:14 AM
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Is she black? Then NPR will devote the entire day to her.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 13, 2022 3:51 AM
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I don’t think she was confused, I think she was…circumspect. I saw her very good and very nekkid Salome in Chicago.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 13, 2022 3:48 PM
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On Finding Her Roots, it turned out Maria's father who passed as a native American was in fact technically African American though very light-skinned with a lot of European (but no native) blood. Which is surprising as Maria did look black, much more so than somebody like Meghan Markle who is 50% black.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 13, 2022 5:01 PM
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Why is that surprising? Her father had African African in his blood.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 13, 2022 5:18 PM
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R11 according to Gates' DNA analysis, he was only 50% African and his wife, Ewing's mother, was white. Whereas Meghan Markle's mother is - I assume - 100% African descent and Meghan doesn't look black at all.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 13, 2022 5:23 PM
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She and Hall divorced in 1990 and she never remarried.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 24, 2022 2:26 AM
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Rebecca Hall is gorgeous. She looks like her mom.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 24, 2022 2:59 AM
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She does looks like her mom but she isn't gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 24, 2022 3:05 AM
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At age 36, Dance of the Seven Veils in then-husband Peter Hall's production of Richard Strauss' "Salome" featured full-frontal nudity and steamed up L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the '80s!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 24, 2022 5:57 AM
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15 - She's horsey, as was her mother. "Gorgeous" and" horsey" have never been intertwined.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 24, 2022 1:08 PM
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