Valeska, Viggo and Voodoo

Look at the Valeska Gert portrait; she’s important to me – wrote Alan.

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Valeska Gert, the great grotesque pantomime
Photographs by Mark B. Anstendig

Valeska was in Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits, she played the hermaphrodite.
In time we will learn more about Valeska Gert from Alan.

Viggo Mortensen reads Bartolomé de Las Casas

Impeach and jail them (or teaching kids the wrong things)

Narrates Howard Zinn “Empire or Humanity?”

Viggo immerses himself in Russian culture.

Zora Neal Hurston and Voodoo

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Listen to Zora Neal Hurstorn (homepage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Alice Walker On Zora Neale Hurston, pt. 1

Her life will be chronicled on the PBS show American Masters: Zora Neale Hurston — Jump at the Sun.

”I hope that after being with Zora so long, I was able to bring her alive,” says Andersen, 56, who lives in Tampa. “She is so difficult to understand. And the best way is to try to place her within her time.” (Kristy Andersen)