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just an ugly broad myThe same judge previously had sneakers tor a week, and you 11 released a 19-year-old charged *( (* 11 better about yourself.Eudora Welty short story is being filmed this weekEudora Weltv’s beloved shortwstory, A Worn Path, will once again be traced as Bruce Schwartz, independent filmmaker records the journey on film in Jackson, Canton and on the Natchez Trace, this week Cora Lee Day, star of American Playhouse production ‘‘Daughters of the Dust,” will play the leading role of Phoenix Jackson, a 90-plus-year-old African-American woman who makes a 20-nule trek as a labor of love to find medicine for her sick grandson Shemust lace the dangers of rugged terrain and uneasy encounters with strangers along the way Brad Dourif. nominated for an Academy Award in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, will play the hunter.Conchata Ferrill is featured as the nurse She started in NBC’s L A Law,” and can currently be seen as the psychiatrist on CBS's Hearts All re.The film, a period piece recreating the atmosphere of the 1940s,also represents a labor of love from Schwartz and the actors, who are donating their performance work. They will be working with the Mississippi Film Office, New Stage Theatre and Mississippi Educational Television to produce the 30-minutc film which will air on ETV at no cost to ETV Schwartz, who is funding the project himself, hopes to sell the film to PBS andthe BBCSchwartz has taught acting and film classes at Rutgers University. MacArthur Park, which he directed under an American Film Institute Grant, won the International Critics Prize. Recently he directed the award-winning film, “Outside the Lonely.Miss Welty’s classic tale is a parable about life,” said Ward Ending, manager of the Mis sissippi Film Office. It is a joy to work with this story by Jackson's literary treasure. Eudora Welty. This piece of film will be a tribute to the work and to the writer herself.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Thu, Feb 17, 1994
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