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It's natural that we are all very curious about our new president.

Despite the fact that he has been a senator before and that he has occupied two ministerial posts ( Foreign and Finance), Fernando Henrique Cardoso is much less than a widely known public figure. We went out on an expedition looking for treasures and hidden warts.

The journey was most rewarding and we came back with more than

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almost anyone would wish to know about the prince of sociology turned Brazilian president. We found out for example that Fernando Henrique can be considered responsible for the '68 French students' revolution. Impossible? Turn to page 15.

We are also talking about the tribulation of being a writer in Brazil, where being a bestselling author can mean selling as little as 2,000 copies of a book. Even on these barren lands, however, there are some names thriving all the more if they write self-help

or mysticism titles. You will also see that are some Brazilian publishers making money with quality literature. All of this on our cover piece.

For those who love music there is a special treat. We are talking about the biggest sensation in Brazilian pop music these days, Marisa Monte, who has embarked on a worldwide tour - with stops in the US - to promote her third and latest CD. We even included some of the lyrics penned by herself so you can hum them with us. Ate de repente.

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We are reading more

One by Lygia Fagundes Telles

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All about the president

Lamarca's story

17 Fernando Henrique sounds off

18 Candid first lady

19 Here's the voter

21 Amazon: a minefield

24 Casseta & Planeta killing with laughter

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Cover by Avian Francesco

Little Brazil

DEPARTMENTS 6 Rapidinhas 12 Letters 46 The Cultural Pulse 47 Por al 49 Classifieds 50 U.S.A. Calendar 52 That's Brazilian 54 BILINGUAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

41 Marisa Monte among us

43 Music Column.

Brazilian Notas

44 Travel

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arofez de Iota (manioc flour with armadillo) is a culinary specialty forbidden by law in Brazil, since the armadillo is on the list, of endangered species. To hunt or eat such an animal can result in a five year jail term. Dinarte Nobre, Funai's (l'undacao Nacional do Indio - National Foundation for the Indian) president, was caught tasting l'arofa de tatu in Brasilia and is having a hard time to explain it. Ironically, the Indians Nobre is supposed to be protecting can eat as many armadillos as they can get.

Talk about wild capitalism.

Teachers, students, taxidrivers and all kind of white collar professionals are getting a crack at the $80• million-a-month commerce of drugs in Rio. A 45 year• old arts teacher confessed recently to daily 0 Globo that she was selling more • than two pounds of marijuana • a month to help pay for her four children's schools.

• From June 18 to 25 of 1995, Rio will be Gay Rio That's when 8,000 homosexuals • from all over the world will be participating in the 17th International Lesbian and Gay Association's World • Conference. Madonna is the conference's symbol and has been asked to sing during the closing ceremonies. Lyric singer Raimondo Pereira • will be the event's president.

Besides debates, the gathering will have shows, a film festival and a beach soccer championship Following Singapore's lead, senator Ney Maranhao from Pernambuco state has introduced in Congress the.'""' . so-called bamboo law, According to the proposed legislation, people caught defacing private or public structures will get from three to eight bamboo lashes.and will have their picture -6:Y published by the press.

Irritated with graffiti in art objects and churches in his state, Maranhao said, "They are going to see what's bambu (bamboo) in their bumbum (derriere).-

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Bitie export While filmmakers are having a hard time maintaining a faint semblance of life for the Brazilian movie industry, pornographers are having a field day. A recent package with four porno titles serves as an example of this success.

NM Video is advertising in several national newspapers its de-luxe pack that includes four titles: Selecionando as Deprawulas (Selecting the Depraved Women): 0 Garanheio Carioca (The Rio Stud): Lindas, Gosto.sas e Salada s (Beautifit& Tasty and Libertine) and As Gostosialias e o Jeca (The Little Tasty Ones and the Country Bumpkin).

In defense of his product,EI Rolcer, who prefers to hide his real identity "not to be burned," says, "It's a film with American standards of quality."

His productions cost an average of $5,000 and are shot directly into tape. In As Gostosinhas e o Jeca. for example, the star is Paulinha, the 1994 Lingerie Girl. Rolcer is ecstatic since he has just gotten his Export Certificate from Concine, the government agency in charge of movies. He has already contacted distributors for the Latin market in the US. The foreign success seems guaranteed since NM Video has been receiving several requests for the tapes from foreign embassies in Brasillia.

Politics

Year 3,000 Here's a candidate E.T. would vote for. Luiz Reboucas, 45, candidate to Rio Grande do Norte's state assembly, has promised to build a flying saucer airport if he wins the election. His platform also includes. importing camels to be used as burden animals, and raising' frogs to exterminate mosquitoes. The UPOport would have a library, a cineplex and a vegetarian restaurant. And if the extraterrestrial beings never come? "No problem," says Torres, who wears a miniature - flying saucer for a hat. "The tourists will."

Despite public perception to . the contrary, foreign tourism - in Brazil has been growing steadily since 1992. About 1.4 million foreign tourists :ited the country that year..:J4 This number grew to 1.6.

IThon in 1993 and Embratur, the state company responsible for the Brazilian tourism, is anticipating 1.9 million visitors...this year. .................. ' With their five cars out of commission for more than six months, the ICCE (Instituto de Criminalistica Carlos Eboli), Rio's police force responsible for gathering evidence on the scene of crimes, have been using their thumbs a lot these days. Only by hitchhiking are they being able to do their investigations. Solely emergency cases --- a cadaver in the street, for :example ---- are getting prompt response.

Vnder pressure from China .:and Germany, the UN has already agreed to study the possibility of increasing the number of countries belonging to the Security Council, There are only five nations - now, all winners of the latest World War. Brazil has already announced that it wants to he among the chosen. A little problem: Brazil doesn't miss a chance to hit Uncle Sam on the chin.

Lately Brasilia has been defending Cuba and opposing US intervention in Haiti and Iraq. "Iran and Iraq are the onlv countries more aggressive than Brazil in their disputes with the US," comments Jose Augusta Guilhon Albuquerque from Universidade de Sao Paulo International Relations.'..'...

Research Centef ',,:Michael Jackson has been to court by a 13razilian. iirfhe case against the singer was entered at the end of September in Federal Court in New York on behalf of Marcio Alberto de Paula, 16, and Renata, 15, who want $20 million, They were hit by a car from the escort that followed Jackon during his stay in So Paulo. Maicio '-ainderwent an operation and has now a slightly shorter -leg. The singer pod

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surgery, but Joao Alberto de Paula, the youngsters father, says now that the money was not ( the aten ew not evneonutgiohnas nl,v necessary.

This Bud is for you Brazilirlirfn the weather , Viv rIttoonw ia Istar aulista n in S . aP o Paulo) iRbeior' Ia' nduC paagsai(fren (from sim elbIiinbc,e the will world's bealbb°elCseatitSo I tt beer. Ar sng half a tabrielltiioena is dollars with inajoint venture p with American Budew nter eiseer, work more than ' Hogwash, rio)eufs,i3 svhiS ssaUnion tinsi e aaric)a khss?.t YEFIN1h ) ,o r they out a stude.rY year y showing prices, salaries and services in 53 cities in the world. The 1994 inquiry reveals that Paulistas spend 1,857 hours a year sweating their shirts, 30 hours less than the Ciiriocas But this is hard to believe for those passing by Rio's beaches, which seem to be always more or less crowded from Monday to Sunday.

Brazilian alcohol producers can't stop smiling. They have heard that the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered the elimination of gas lead in 15 states, with the addition of alcohol in the fuel. That would mean 12 billion liters that Brazil might sell to the States. And to think that Proalcool, the government agency in charge of that fuel, seemed ready to order its own casket Brazilian animated motion pictures are getting interimtionaI. Several animation artists, including Arturo lIranga and Stil, have started the production of Os Sete Pecados Tropicais (The Seven Tropical Sins), a tropicalist parody on the capital sins. Filmed in English with 50% financed

by US capital, the Sins will be released by Buena Vista, the distributing arm of Walt

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The biggest street show on earth, Rio's Carnaval, scheduled for February 26 and 27 of next year, could be staged today, according to their organizers. They credit this readiness to the fact that the parade has been privatized and is now the responsibility of the Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba. "We are even going to have floats changing colors," announced Fernando Alvares from Escola de Samba Estacio de Sã. For a little taste of what to expect, here are some of the main schools and their planned enredos (scenarios): Beija-flor - Bidu Saylio, um Canto de Cristal, retelling the life of opera singer Sayao, who at 92 lives in the US; Mangueira - A Esmeralda do Atlantico, about a scenic island called Fernando de Noronha; Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel - Padre Miguel, olhai por nos, dealing with Brazilian religiosity; Portela - Gosto que Me Enroseo, based on a classic samba of same name; Salgueiro - 0 acaso do pot. acaso, inspired by a Michigan University doctoral thesis showing that Brazil was discovered, seven years before than officially accepted, by Portuguese Du arte Pacheco Pereira; and Vila Isabel - Cara ou Coma, as Ducts Faces da Moeda, the story of the currency in Brazil People

Revenge of the panty Whatever happened to model Lilian Ramos? She was the girl who became an overnight international sensation after being shot pantyless, all her female anatomy showing, beside Itamar Franco.

On the occasion, during the latest Carnaval in Rio, the Brazilian President was watching the Escolas de Samba Parade. Invitations from men's magazines took her all over the world (Argentina, Portugal, Spain, France) for even — if this is possible — more revealing pictures. Ramos seems to. have found a new home in Rome now and is not thinking about going back to Bra-

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zil where she was harshly criti cized and presented as a golddigger call girl.

After having posed twic for Italian magazine Playmm (she was the cover girl in July and September) and having participate in a varieq program 01 the state T RAI, sh has becom Italy'. sweetheart.

Autograpl and model ing night. are happen ing at an av erage o three time. a week witl her fe never bein. less than $2,000.

Her plans now are to improve her Italian while continuing her modeling career.

She also hopes that the Romat architect she is going out with will propose marriage soon.

The next film of poiee nu director Oliver Stone might be shot in Manaus and R' de Janeiro,in 1995. Screenwriter Richard Rutowsky, who has been working with Stone since 1977, has already written Surrender, a story dyf an American executive living in Brazil who wants to know why the Indians hired him evy refuse to work andwhog y oes i crazy in the process of finding out the reason. The film would go back to the destiny and mysticism themes dealt with in Natural Born Killers, the latest Stone movie.

• In the judicial fight between diminutive singer-composer Nelson Ned and the Gipsy Kings, Ned won by knockout.

Brazilian justice decided that the song "Amor d'un din" performed by the French group is too similar to Ned's -Tudo Passara," a hit he composed in 1968 for his girlfriend. Sony Music do Brazil, Gipsy Kings's recording company, tried to reverse the guilty sentence, to no avail. Ned should receive $32,000 for moral and patrimonial damages.

Meanwhile, the composer's lawyers are seeking even more. They want $3 million in reparation, For that they went to the highest court, the Superior Tribunal de Justice,.

Country singers Leandro and Leonardo are expected to be in Los Angeles this November. They are coming for the taping of their first record in Spanish. They are in 18th place in the world ranking at Warner Music International, which has stars like Madonna and Phil Collins. The new album for the Latin public will be a medley of their biggest hits. The version into Spanish required some tinkering. In the song "Mexentexe" ("Jiggle-Jiggle"), the line `Testa tin roca é pma la de born" ("party in the farm is beyond good") has become "la fiesta nuestra es mucho mejor" ("our party is much better").

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talked recently about the price situ- 75% from 1970 until now, the Bienal sales ation, -The Brazilian book is an exploded with a growth of almost 8,000%. The for biographies. Ruy Castro, for example, has released recently 0 expensive product. But this is a expo had also its setbacks: only 14 countries .Anjo Parnagralico, a very well question that we editors are al- participated in the international side of the received biography of playwright ways. tossing under the carpet."

Bienal (the smallest number since the event Nelson Rodrigues.

Siciliano's Pedro Paulo Sena started in 1970) and the total number of exPublished at the end of 1992,0 Madureira. another publisher, goes hibitors fell from 935 two years ago to 725 this Anjo Pornagralica has already a little farther, "The country has time. sold 60,000 copies. Castro, who inside it an Argentina that cannot Walimg a new boom - With the intro- had to interview 125 people as even buy bread every day. The duction of the real, the new currency, there are . ...well as read 50 books and 7,000 Brazilian citizen must demand those hoping that Brazil will see another 1986. articles by and on Rodrigues, had from the government that his taxes That year, the euphoria of Plano Cruzado - a no advancement from his pubbe better spent in education, food, plan that froze prices for several months lisher. health and housing. Before the brought armies of buyers to the bookstores, Joao Maximo and Carlos Didier Brazilian children can get a mini- where they ended up buyi ng 500 million books. spent eight years interviewing 140 mum of protein so they can be- In the last three years, this figure.has.stabilized , people. researching and writing come readers, any and every strat- close to 300 million a yearAr. Noel Rosa Biogrqfia, about egy will be a failure."

According to the publishers, thanks tlidA .one of the most famous samba Two international major events real, books' prices have been reduced by around omposers Brazil ever had. Vini:in the last few weeks have brought 30%. The Bienal has offered 130,000 -titles ius - Poeta do Paixdo, written s. the discussion of books to the fore- this year, some of which had their debut during by journalist Jose Castello, took '..front of the national conscious- the fair, including Chato, o Rei do Brasil. the two years of work, and has sold Iiess. One happened in October in most anticipated book of the ycar. more than 15.000 copies since its Gernuiny where Brazil W as choChato, a 736-page biography of Citizen release at the beginning of 1994.

-gen as the focal theme for the Kane-like Assis Chateaubriand, a self-made Even famous novelist Rubem Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest folkloric figure and the founder of a media Fonseca has tried his hand at a exposition of this kind in the world. empire called Diarios ..:1swociadas, had that biography in his last romance, 0 The other one was Rio Paulo's rare attribute of being born as a best-seller.

Selvagem da Opera, a romanti13th Bienal Internacional:- do During the eight days the Bienal was open cized story of Brazilian classical Livro. Both generated plenty6:::„4„...„ Ao the public (there were days reserved to composer Carlos Gomes. interest, lots of sales and hundreds business people), the book sold 3,000 copies, Quality can sell - The most of pages of news, reviews and the same as the total printing of most books. successful of these writers have comments in the press.

Chal(), written by journalist Fernando Morais, something in common besides The organizers of the Bienal 48, during a period of seven years, was an their talent, stamina and interest couldn't be happier. From August exception. The book in biographies. Morais, 17 to 28. they had $66 millioniM*4liad an initial printing Castro and Fonseca, all sales, 20% more than in the previ- of 80,000 copies. write for Companhia "Before the ous exposition in 1992. They also Morais, a well redas Letras, a publishhad 1.2 million visitors, almost spected investigative Brazilian ing house created eight the maximum the place could journalist who had a years ago and considchildren can get handle. With a mix of shame and stint as a politician, is ered an exemplar of pride, a director of the fair re- nowadays the most sucsuccess story. a minimum of vealed on the last day of the expo cessful newspaperman His founder, Luiz that scalpers were selling the $3 converted into a book protein so they Schwarcz, 38, who sold tickets to get in for $10. The suc- writer. His success, . his own apartment for can become cess was such that the promoters however, didn't meat." $150,000 to start the of the Bienal have already de- a lot monetirily. He isreaders, any and firm, has become facided to take it from the Ibirapuera the owner of a four-..

-.:" . mous for his contagious every strategy Park Pavilion, where it has been bedroom apartment in optimism even in the held, to Anhembi, where the Auto HigienOpolis, a firstwill be a failure." face of.. adversity.

Fair happens every year. class neighborhood in Schwarcz has no comOne of the exercises in hoopla Sao Paulo, but drives a plaints about authors, on the part of the Bienal was to second hand Fiat and lives a modest life. colleagues, the public or the govshow the correlation between the He has been supplementing his income ernment: "Books are only for an growth of Brazil's population and with public posts (he has been secretary of elite, but the market is opening that of the book fair. In 1970, with Culture and of Education for Rio Paulo state). up." " 90 million Brazilians, the Bienal Morais also had an advancement of $50,000 He is proud to tell people that sold 150,000 books. Ten years from his publisher. Part of this money he used Freud's biography written by later, with 30 million citizens to pay more than 20 contributors who helped American Peter Gay and published more, the fair sold a mere 198,000 him with research and 230 interviews. He also by him, has sold more in Brazil copies. had to travel to London and Paris, besides than in the US or Europe, where it In 1994, Brazil's population is Brasilia and six states in Brazil. was released previously. close to 160 million, while the Most of his fellow authors, however, have Schwarcz was a key element in book expo sold around 12 million a much harder time, even though a great numtransforming the publication of copies. While the population grew ber of them arc also journalists and have opted books in Brazil from a missionary NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

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•River I Sat and Cried) sold more than - 0 Guia Ofiactivity into something 150,000 copies in a few weeks. It's He is proud to tell cial da Paprofessional and comthe love story between Pilar, a Spanquera (How mercial. His plan was that Freud's iard, and her childhood friend, a to Win the always to maintain a seminarian.

Heart ofAnysmall company with biography written "Due to releases, speeches and one, Anytime, quality works. The forby American Peter seminaries all over the world, I canAny place = mula has been worknot have the luxury to spend not even ing. Companhia das Gay has sold more The Official three months, in Brazil," confesses Guide ofFlirLetras had been conthe author; but he discards the idea of in Brazil than in the ration). centrating its efforts on being a Spiritual guide: "I never was' There are literature, biographies US or Europe, and I don't want to be a guru. I don't two authors, and essays. reject the label of esoteric writer; but where it was however, The firm's cata1 am Commitedly spiritual." ' whose names logue has more than released In this latest book, the story of the never seem to 500 titles and includes 'Virgin Mary is used as a backdrop for previously. the leave in its roster of authors Pilar's romance.

According to him best-sellers' such names as Vladimir there's no contradictio n between wizlist: Paulo Coelho and Lair Nabokov, Gore Vidal, Sergei Eisensardry and religion. "Wizardry is a Ribeiro. At times it appears tein, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, tool," he explains. "Religion is an act would the publishers as if and Portuguese writer Jose Saramago. of devotion." all go bankruptif these auBesides Chan', Companhia de Letras The author is in touch with Amerithors stopped writing; These released during the Bienal Nabokov's, can -author and actress Shirley with around 500 books Lolita and A Pessoa em Questa°, MacLaine, who has reported about titles in, the libraries - rep-.

Vargas Llosa's Lituma nos Andes, her past incarnations in My Lives. resent 20% of all the new V.S. Naipaul's Um Caminho no "Shirley has opened the way of the titles on the shelves.

Mundo, Umberto Eco's.5eisPasseios feeling. Before, this kind of books Great times for esotepelos Bosques da Ficcao, and Ruy used to be a formula. The light warricism Due to the ecoCastro and Odilon Marques's Franriors are in touch. We don't get tosale' of nomic crisis, the kenstein. gether all the time, but one knows books in Brazil fell by 50.% Recently the company battled and what the other is doing."

1993. between 1989 and won the war to get the rights to pubCoelho had another incarnation this same period, During A lish Microsoft owner Bill Gates's as a composer, a partner of Brazilian however; esoteric and selfRoadAhead, in Portuguese. The book rocker Raul Seixas. But this was behelp literature had a 20% will be released next March 11, only fore his "conversion" in 1982. His boost. six days after the American release. last composition was Me Deixas Coelho e Ribeiro have a Shwarcz expects to make some money Louca, interpreted by Elis Regina, lot to do with this tendency. and selling 200,000 copies of the considered by many the best singer Coelho, 48, somePaulo book.

Brazil ever had. "I stopped on the times di spara ginglyreferred After five years of great commertop," he notes. to as "the magus", says he cial success and being in the black, The other best-selling giant, Lair is "tuned magically to what Companhia das Letras saw its profits Ribeiro, is a doctor who has lived and soul's alchemists call the Chard evaporate in 1992 and 1993. studied in the US and has been called world. As a writer I'm a and 0 Selvagem da Opera are helpthe Brazilian pope of neurolin. mirror of my time." ing the company to reverse this situguistics. He has already published Coelho alone has alation. The firm should make $6 milseven books of self-help and has sold ready sold four million coplion by the end of the year, 50% more More than 1.2 million copies. He has ies of his five books. He has than in 1993. just released his seventh book, four books simultaneously It's curious that Companhia de Viajando no Tempo on: the bestLetras has become a success without Recriando Seu Passado seller list. His touching a vein that has been a boom e Criando Seu Futuro It's curious that OAIquensista for other companies: books about self (Traveling Through (The A lchehelp and mysticism. More than 48 Companhia de Time- Recreating the mist in the million of these books were sold in Past and Creating the Letras has become English ver1993, while scientific and profesFuture). has sion) sional books sold fewer than 20 mila success without Marcio Souza, a fabeen on the lion and general interest works have mous novelist and aulist for more touching a vein sold a little more than 33 million. • thor of Galvez, o Impesix than Such publications, panned conthat has been a rador do Acre, doesn't Na yea's. tinually by the critics, have been conhide his disappointAlargem do boom for other stantly on the best-seller lists for ment with the situation, Rio Piedra some years now. They have names companies: books "1 don't read these Eu Sentei e like Revelacoes de uma Bruxa (Revthings.

For me all these Chorei (On about self help and elations of a Witch) by Marta Frazdo books would get an of Bank the or Como Con quistar Qualquer Um, a mysticism. entry in the dictionary the Piedra Qualquer Hora, em Qualquer Lugar 10

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as superstition. They seem like that circus 'owner who made money showing freaks and who used to •say, 'People's ignorance has always given me lots of profit."

Souza call the books that are being published now in Brazil, "a literature of survival. How is the middle-class going to spend its money, on the novels of Dostoievslcy or a computer book that can help make some more money?"

International authors too Others tiy to find a positive spin in the trend. Silviano Santiago, a writer and literature teacher, reminds us that Brazil is not alone in this search for mysticism and selfhelp manuals, "We live in a state of decadence at the end of this Century and superstitions have the appeal to balance menaces such as AIDS an natural disasters. When we abandon reason, everything and nothing is charlatanism.

We enter a new way of thinking."

For researcher and education expert Heraldo Marelim Vianna, "the reading of esoteric books can even be positive if this leads people to read with regularity."

"When we started our publishing house we knew there was only one way to be • successful. That's why we invested in the self-help field," admits Alfredo Goncalves from Editora Objetiva, the publisher of Lair Ribeiro books. Therapist Robert Shinyashiki is another story of success.

Ten years ago, he released, without big expectations, a psychology book entitled A Caricia Essencial (The Essential Caress). The book has sold 800,000 copies since. Shinyashiki was so impressed that he opened his own publishing company and has already released other six titles in the same vein, selling 2.5 million books in the process. "Instead of mathematical solutions, my books lead people to discover their own way to happiness."

Some publishers are still releasing the international NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

heavyweights. Record, fcir example, used the Pedro Paulo de Sena MadureiBienal to launch the latest works by Frederyck ra, a published poet and Siciliano's Forsyth (0 Punho. de Deus), Boris Yeltsin editor, has no illusions about the (Diario de Boris Yeltsin), John Le Cane (0 book market in Brazil, "The sales Gerente Noturno), and Gabriel Garcia Marques of books have been growing in the (Do Amor e Outros Demonios). This last work last decade. Ten year ago, howcost $100,000 to Record in an international ever, 3,000 copies was considered auction to get the book's rights. a good initial printing for a book.

The Siciliano company, a leader in didac- This number has fallen to- 2,000 tic and legal books, has opted for Brazilian today. authors and has used the Bienal to introduce Despite all its limitations, Braseven new books:As Femeas (Marcelo Rubens zil has some of the most sophistiPaiva), Veneno na Veia (Jose Neumane), A cated readers in the world. Czech Sentinela (Lia Luft), Cara a Cara (a collection writer Milan Kundera had 300,000 of interviews by TV reporter Marilia Gabriela), copies of his The Unbearable 0 Homem da Mao Seca (Adelia Prado),Agosto Lightness of Being sold in Brazil, de 1954 (Sette Camara), and A Dupla Chama something similar to what hap(from Mexican Nobel prize winner Octavio pened to Italian Umberto Eco's Paz).

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A Chronology 1931 (January 18) Fernando Henrique Cardoso is born in Rio. 1961 Becomes doctor in Social Sciences at USP 1964 Goes in exile to Chile 1967-1968 Teaches sociology at Universite de Paris 1968 Goes back to Brazil and is compulsorily retired by the government.

1977 Enters in the MDB 1978 Elected deputy of Senator Franco Molitor° 1983 Assume vacancy in senate when Montoro becomes Sao Paulo governor 1985 Loses election to be Sao Paulo mayor 1985 Reelected senator with 7 million votes 1988 Leaves MDB to found PSDI3 1992 (October) Becomes Foreign Minister 1993 (May) Becomes Finance Minister. Inflation is 29.7% a month.

1994 (March) Leaves government to run for the presidency.

Inflation is 45.7% a month.

1994 (October 3) Is elected President with 34 million votes 1995 (January 1) To be inaugurated as President

Profile Age: 63 leight: 5'8" Weight: 172 lbs Wife: Ruth Vilaca Correa Leite Cardoso Children: Paulo Henrique, 40; Luciana, 36; Beatriz, 34 Grandchildren: Helena, 8; Joana, 8; Julia, 5; Pedro, 1

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, When Fernandtn.Henrique Cardoso is inaugurated on January 1st, Ls Fraz il's president, the countrv be getting aniidividual who dreamed during his teen-age years .aheut bez, ,ming-MWittired profess., Sorbonne profes0r, a senator and a cardinal. The intelectual Fernando Henrique eriTcled,4p being al of these things (except for Cardinal, which he still has a fl Mt chance of becorning'sluee:it7smi)(1st ellOSZI1 A . omething beyond his own big aintition: :§y:i.,t110,..14"ope):an4-(,'4 In a result that seemed iinpossible just some few weeks ago, Cardosn.Esw0t the:presideneyEviW.54W : ::11he 64 million of valid ballots, getting more votes than all of his sr,!ven,E0ppGinerit,s.combinedOtiitintilit, that'of his closest contender, Luiz Inacio Lola da •:::'Respectful of his biggest voter, president Itaniar Franco, who ridiriin:Tecotd.,.higkofpopulanty_', ;and interested in not giving ammunition to any oppoi ent,. since many tata g..-OvettOrs'ar.e' still going t6 1)e selected in the second round of the elections on Ncventber 15. CardPor.i&'se.xpriiiing -opinions in toe: ]:Tymost general terms possible. This shouldn't be hard for hi-n. When runnaigtonmnynroof Sao Paulni•upom„' being asked about his favorite soccer team in the state, :le came out with•- hispi2atI;111i.00t for Corinthiar.:::: ..-,:naturally. But I've been a member of Falineiras in the past. When out of S5o Iottliori-not or Sants. Arid if Portuguesa wins I will not get upset.- He was able to Mclude al the major ;•preferences, so he wouldn't hurt any feelings or lose ary votes He post-oc, ned,untit'Decairibettougit...:: llecisions like the names to fill his cabinet. In his first stmement after being, eledtdd;-..he alincintided, "Wk4, .:" 3rieec1..,: to, decrease the degree of anxiety and tension. You can relax' „ --']•-,x1,11e,:vvas born on Tulle Ig. 1931 at home, in Botafogo;Rio de Janeiro. At age:1 'ite.'w-lts: already able to read a habit that would follow him throughout life Cardoso might favc beccroi_e-Ant itary ()Ulcer 1, he hadn't moved to the Ferdizes neighborhood in Sao Paulo, in 1940, whet Ite'va$'4,.::..aiirks:tarted a new flife. His grandfather was Mauricio Cardoso, a general, and three of these une,12 3 Were Army colonels father Leonidas Cardoso, who married at age 44, was also a general bat 1- c rarely wore-a uniform ad 1' n leader'. m ost )o-ndar communist l"liked to read communist politician Luis Carlos Frestes(lt:98-1990) the but nbahdoned- i7i' Ileurique would also romance the Partido CoM unista !tnefBraztill. oviaanvasion of Hungary He keeps good memories of ilk child119:04:*t4lhis father ore lei. • D 2•71..:.yv.p.ite,1,0theateri byl#in, On Carnaval my father loved to draw, and tominke doll slur& ermifetti..He wai. :: Fre :', had a very nice personaln v " ,..•eryip'yfulancl.ployful li f school, he Tiever got a nicknatue. As - At 'Colegio Sao Fau2O, his high to he Learning 17\- 1 is colleagues. Tie himself, , h&:Eig:16:ddy'clie. used ttil$talled Fernando Henrique, t some was very formal and cOtieentrated. By 13 he has createo a iieading group in sl- c ol He,also heiped to start 0!eitWent$'. fraternity, 1ving its vice-president and gene-al director lintir,;F to these positions helitt'• NEWS •rorv BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994,

e •.:: ::chosen once for an electiye:s.pO " e 1986. He .had been a -Senate'bf timed „•the post only.. because thy ition, Andre 'Franco 'Montero, vy venior of Sap Panic> and had to le ?deputy. .:Cardoso:" had lest, that ele eking of all the left, 'including Lui a, who was then- a powerful uni -1'1'135, he almost won..., S.Ao Paulo. His loss is and not enough political savvy In a TV mterv tripped and left the impressionthat: he•.didn t belt • God and in another interview yf:•to PliOboy he adritit ted having experimented marijuana in his youth 'If had simply answered I believed in God, I wotildfit be able to • :•• wile,:andm......:Children in the eyes," • .,. Ex-president Janio or's seat, used the would you • it, atheist and potsmoker?"

That did it Public's a friend . accused him of cominittot ens have used the mayoral electi fCi. argue that Cardoso is vain and on aecinstant ego-trip. It was n the eve of that election that Fernando Henrique esed ten.iii. t.t.ts..nuigor..eicham "triewsweeki#.; ...::fthat the pieVeca with ewspapers, ed them on Cardoso frod lost by 141 154 votes He had aso t suffer the iliation of having Jnio?dismfectrng" the chair in re sitting m it for the first :it of t he TV time.fhroughou` thiseltaa dential campaign there t the oppos tel:st:061:ritio wereors irqb9s rq0f of an eight t7'01n r long ex extra marital affair TV reporter and whose m most coricrdie resttit Was three-year-old child . No facts, however, were ever pr 4 esuedied out AllegedlY, Cardoso's itiadteisciareeaat yie other dirty: tricks, emie

start „ Icato040,roaling and itite Mtx's The Capital They'.Wotild read:the text in English and they disctissrng • ..agraph„;',..:The Capital...Group- became,' provoked a otof jealousy among those younger':.:: . .,f.. whe came. %() latele be able to be• partef.the tienced by this reading, three yearsiater,f 'earcidlik plete his doctoral thesis entitled Capitalism af.idf$ ' 40.0a1 Brazil " That 1404 would be published as abe Lj.ust One.of books he has written.:::.cluting„hht It was GitSinAo,aga.7 basement the papers ,...„ „.. thesis to get the cevetedied:.!„..„... ,catednitico. The then 11SP pto military took power After eoi :was on the blank list looking for him be hid t -Guarma beach": rich" Sao Paulo. ThOrnilitarr ., _ 17, the sociologist croSSed:; .. tins using his.:owti passport,.

Where he very soon started Institute fOr ::CEPAL .,..(Econothic Comnii an 'organ of the United N.4.40 a telegram saying, "ScOn. was hisTatiter's'hicknairiek ..110),Vas atthe revoltitle.

January '68, before ..PYRT.OiliC,:::' an old:friend and. t pope otrench so .,..s,vent to Nanterre wherek .,aatnie was organizing a coUHis mission: teach SociologiFtfiebry for graduation stuha and Dependency Theory — a concept he had helped to develbpwitii Chilean political scientist .Binzo Faletto in Dependeheia e ..Dos.envolvintimi ,AefeinterioitLatina — to postgraduate disVet. He eride ,goOte.,:than a simple witness to the '68 yelution. The elements .to _make a case that the evolution woul '-'4*.eteri'.t for fttaillian resident elect How? In a c professors wellilistant and aloof, he %if rapport' With his upils, including 4.0 an ie POOtftiI3 endit, or eny the Red, th he:would lea# „eleyOluon that set Pula.

- 1Vie.class,to. ' —"dit me to him will '.*as being 'eatened with :.theS 'when he came 'ing love was ardoso toolg„ .ismissed. Diaii hey talkedir . And t1WtS, fore tlwimfir in the sindee that was „ said. eir onr. true in 1974 As soon as he ned ii e, gene . In Bzi and street dettnis lyesidOlier""" aStatitiaral Act "Ntith executive acts issued''' With that the Predk. . sership in the prea".".

The effects -of thi Henrique in April .of retired Irani his:.d664. of the university and detain.

Later he was taken to prisonht Bandeiratites) Ile has talked hood in lily head, they ifi tortured ..it was a very toti ' -

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teriOus Merl scholar.. -11.is...`86 rim gress was more a series of classes :than a...politiCal campaign. He visited more than 200 cities:.all .ever the state of Sao Paulo, meeting there at closed Xlesirs with ....small groups of no more than 50...people4Abevc.. .: 411,.

Fernando Henrique is a professor. He lit eight colleges and universities in Brazil f . ....He had thought about becoming a lawyer, bitt„etided.ti choosing sociology, and in 1949 took the course at University of S4o Paulo, arguably the best superior school in Brazil. .At age 22, he hadhis'......degreekand,.. . becanie. a teacher assistant for Sociology/l.„Xoting.:and ;•!•:.:' handsome, he gat the nickname of,La*Ol.b.p .'frent.' his female studentS. It is the name. of....,dleading:lleye''drop.

One more .daring 'student sent hintAiiote;..A7.Isthere any, sociological .'sexual relations between nd4scspleF' Ws answer!.!Sociological no, se h . 4:met Ruth:"...Yilaca. Correa ' Leite 19 alS • a sociologY,....:student'They. seemed re like friends, than sweethearts, 'so similar were their tastes," commented recently' Roberto•Gusinao friend from these times. GuSinAo reinembera ..goen; with him to the SAo Silvestre. marathon (art.eVerit that starts a little before midnight 'on' 1)ecember ':31 and ends on the new year) to. Toot for. Emit .Zatopec, a Communist from Czechoslovakia, He'reininds'eardeso . .

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The writer Ills 24 books have sold more than 250,000 copies around the world.

• ('or e Alobilidade Sock:! em Floriancipolis. Nacional, 1960, out of print • Moment e Sociedade, Nacional, 1961 , • ( vitalism° e Escraviddo no Brasil Akridional, Paz e Terra, 1962 • Empresario Industrial e Desenvolvimento Economico no Brasil, Difel, 1964 • Industrializacitin, Estructura Ocupacional y Estratificackin Social en America Latina, Santiago, 1966 • Cuestiones de Sociologia del Desarollo, Santiago Universitaria, 1967 Mudaneas Socials na America Latina, Difel, 1969, out of print • America Latina: Ensayos de Interpretacion Sociologico-Politica, Santiago Alianza Editorial, 1970 Dependencia e Desenvolvimento na America Latina, Zahar, 1970, translated into English, French, Spanish, German and Italian • Politica e Desenvolvimento ens Sociedade Dependentes, Zahar, 1971 Autoritarismo e Democratizaedo, Paz e Terra, 1972, out of print • 0 Model° Politico Brasileiro e Outros Ensaios, Difel, 1972 • Os Partidos e as Eleiedes no Brasil, Paz e Terra, 1975 AmazOnia: Expansdo do Capitalism°, Brasiliense, 1977 • Democracia pans Aludar, Paz e Terra, 1978 Politica e Sociedade, volumes I and II, Nacional, 1979 and 1981 • As Ideias e seu Lugar, Vozes, 1980 • 0 Novo Socialism° Frances e a America Latina, Paz e Terra, 1982 • Perspectivas: Ideias e Atuaedo Politica, Paz e Terra. 1983 • Democracia Necessaria, Papirus, 1985 • Economia e Alovimentos Socials na America Latina, Brasiliense, 1985 • A Construed° da Democracia, Sicilian°, 1993 • The New Global Economy and the Information Age, co-authored with M. Carnoy, M. Castells and M. Cohen. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

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Not again, was his first reaction. The future president it was tired of living in exile. That's when, in concert with economist Paul Singer and philosopher Jose Arthur Gianotti, he decided to create a center of studies to ; ...reunite those deprived of their political rights arrelYmig the military," as he himself has said. It wasn't harcfrOthim to make some calls to friends in high positions overieas and get $180,000 from the Ford Foundation to start CEBRAP, the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. A bomb thrown at CEBRAP in 1976 shows how the center had become infamous for some circles. The next year, the MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement) invited Cardoso to run for the Senate. He balked, consulted friends, and finally accepted. 'Then there w•s a deluge of backing from intellectuals, actors, singers, and Lula. He manag4d, to get an impressive 1.3 million votes. Not enough, however, to make him the winner, A Scrooge at heart - He left what had become the PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement), in a risky venture to create his present party the PSDB (Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy). His admiration for impeached president Fernando Collor de Mello almost ruined his own career. He was in favor of his party getting closer to the Collor administration and almost accepted an invitation to become Foreign Minister. He would be just that during the Itainar Franco reign that succeeded Collor.

Ins passage through the Finance Ministry, however, with his Plano Real creation, has been the decisive factor to take him to Palacio da Alvorada, the presidential palace.

Commenting on the passage of Cardoso from the left to the center, Darcy Ribeiro, an anthropologist who is his friend and who was a companion in exile, talks about the influence of the US on the president's thinking, "It was at Harvard that he became what he is today: a Harvard head.

He stopped being a leftist in the United States. He started to think that Brazil's dependency on the US is inescapable.

All we can do is relax and enjoy."

Fernando Henrique has a reputation of being a bon oourinet but also a penny pincher. Among the stories about „ his avarice is the one that he doesn't use money but always checks from a state he is not in, so when it's time to pay he can get scot-free. He is also known, when eating with a group, to take the tab, divide the expenses among all those at the table, taking care of excluding himself of the monetary obligation. He also is famous for taking the tip for himself when the thinks his companions at table were too generous with the waiter.

During his exile in Paris, he used to eat with sociologist Luciano Martins. They had an agreement that they would pay the restaurant check in turns. Every time it was Cardoso's day, he would take from his wallet an old 100 franc bill and offer it to the waiter. He invariably would make a face because it was a high bill for those times and also because the bill was disintegrating and Martins would end up picking up the tab. Finally Martins offered to buy the relic for 300 francs since it would cost him less on the long run. But Fernando didn't accept the offer..

At home, Cardoso is the anti-handyman. According to his children he is incapable of changino a light bulb or washing a dish. He doesn't even touch the b stove, explaining that the contraption might explode in his hands' When the children we.re going to school he never sign0 their report cards, leaving all the work for the wife. Although he is generally very calm, he can get very upset when be people beinF humiliated due their lower social condition.

Except for the occasional glass of wine, Cardoso never drinks and he is not a smoker either. But he likes to sleep.

He refuses to spend the night at parties. The only concession sometimes is half an hour to play a little poker with friends before hitting the sack. In contrast to other politicians he hasn't yet learned to press the flesh and .kiss babies. He continues to talk with a professorial toije:.(and to think that some of his advisers suggested that littnake some grammatical mistakes on purpose to make hirn close to the populace). But apparently he has learned.,SonlietIling more important now that he is the president: to $1.1.y.:41p. This was something acquired *ery recently, in the last year or so, while in the Finance .Ministry. That should come handy now that appeals for posts and employment are coming from all sides.

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The poet Fernando I lenrique had his poetry phase and he published verses like these in 1949 in &vista dos Novissimos: morta / Branca muffler triste.../Ai que en sou poeta de tempos agonizantes / Ai que ninguem me pode compreender / As mensagens sao brumas hibernais / Flutuando em coracoes gelados./ Meus negros cabelos de espanador / -Unveil] bolas de neve nas pontas" "Dead woman / Sad white woman.../ Helas, I am a poet of agonizing times / Helas, nobody can understand me / The messages are wintry fog / Floating on frozen hearts./ My duster black hair / Have snow balls on their tips-

Patrimony Cardoso and his wife make together $11,500 a month in salary, the equivalent to 178 minimum v,'ages.

Properties Market value Apartment in Higienopolis, Sao Paulo $230,000 Half of farm in [Mai (Minas Gerais state $200,000 House in downtown Sao Paulo - $70,000 Ranch in lbiima, Sao Paulo suite - $70,000 Apartment in Brasilia $60.000 Two lots in Praia Grande, Sao Paulo state - $30,000 Apartment in apart-hotel in Brasilia - $20,000 Two lots in Araraquara, Sao Paulo state - $10,000 A 1990 Volkswagen Quantum 2000 - $10,800 A 1992 Volkswagen Parati - $11,600 Total - $712,400

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Q&A

The Platform

No other presidential candidate has ever received so many votes as you in past elections. Does this responsibility make you worried? .

I'm very worried. But I am humble enough to take such responsibility. I have gone through a series of difficulties: curtailing of my political rights, exile, defeat J.ri elections.. I'm going to assume the presidency without fear and without bravado, but with a very big inner courage to be worthy of these millions of Brazilian who voted for me and even those who didn't, but are Brazilians.

How about the first 100 days?

We'll start our platform program from day one. I will not waste a minute. From ciur three plans , the economic one, is already in place. We still have to establish the social and developmental programs.

Who will be your ministers?

They will only be known in December. I'll choose the best names available. We need o examine the projects to be executed and then find which ministers will be most suited to make them work, most capable of communicating with the nation about them. The main requirement will be competence. If the parties canriot provide us with capable people, be they technicians or politicians, we will look for them outside the parties. We will not have superministers., neither will we have a superpresident. I have my hands free to make these choices.

What will be the minimum wage in your administration?

What's the problem of the minimum wage nowadays? It's social welfare. Because from the 14 million who get minimum wage, 11.5 million get it from social welfare. In order to increase the minimum from $70 to $100 you need $2.75 billion in welfare.

Without it, you will cause a deficit, You would be giving with one hand and taking with the other. And this produces inflation. It's pharisaic to propose a raise on the minimum and to oppose welfare reform. This is demagoguery.This doesn't mean that I don't consider the present minimum wage shameful.

Will you have money for health programs?

Health is another question. The money is not enough and it will always be scarce in a country like ours. The US solved its health problem with generalization of public health. There are two things to fight: bureaucracy and pork barrel. To improve people's life, we have to reform the state.

Is it possible to reform the state?

To do this we have to break up the bureaucracies and the wild corporativism that exist in our country. We also have to change the structure so the resources can be used conveniently. half of the total sum available to pay debts and invest is reserved for health. It shows that we are on the limit. Or you increase taxes, or simplify bureaucracy or you do both things at the same time, We also need rules. There is too much fraud:on the part of hospitals. There is a new bourgeoisie in the interior formed by hospital owners, who keep complaining and asking for more money from Brasilia.

Won't stability exclude many Brazilians from the organized economy?

Without stability, exclusion will be guaranteed because inflation is the prime cause of exclusion. Inflation is the biggest tool for concentrating income. The biggest mistake of the parties who opposed me is that they were demagogues and didn't face up inflation that impoverishes the poorest people even more. To be radical is to go to the root of the questions. I am a radical. The fight against inflation is necessary, but not enough. We need also public policies regarding employment, regional distnbution of income and so on.

What's being changed in your foreign policy?

Mercosul (South America Common Market) is already a reality It brought huge gains for Rio Grande do Sul and it has increased our exports a lot. But Brazil, as we like to say at Itamarati (the Foreign Ministry), is a global trader. The development of the next century has to do with technology. So, the big technological markets should be at the center of our interest: United States, Europe, Japan. On the other hand, Brazil has to look for new partners who are very dynamic, such as China. As we used to say, "China is our neighbor". I've been in constant contact with the Chinese. I gave total support to our joint effort on rockets. We had to choose between China and India. And our option was China.

The big market continues to be the US, right?

There are many alternatives . In Latin America there is not only the Mercosul. I have proposed the Amazon Initiative, to stimulate bilateral agreement's between Brazil and other Latin American countries. We cannot forget, however, that the big consumer of Brazilian machinery and equipment still is the US. Without chauvinism, we have to think seriously that we are one of the ten biggest economies in the world. We cannot keep repeating the '60s chorus that we are an underdeveloped country. Brazil is unequal, unjust but not underdeveloped.

Will agrarian reform be a priority in pine government?

Agrarian reform in Brazil is a social question. Brazil has no lack of food; it has a huge capacity to produce it and an agriculture that answers to the challenge. We have to implement agrarian reform because there are people without land. Past governments were able to settle no more than 30,000 families a year. While Finance Minister, I destined $300,000 for the settlement of 50,000 families in 1995. The problem is not only administrative, but lack of political savvy.

Are you going to get close to Lula again?

We had some temporary dispute common in the heat of an electoral campaign. But I have esteem and respect for Lula, who represents an unquestionable leadership. We've been friends for many years, we have backed each other in the past. I don't see anything preventing us from finding a foot of clean soil and a common area in which we can sit and talk about Brazil's problems.

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Fernando I Ienrique Cardoso is keeping the names of his ministers up his sleeve, but he has already announced that he will have fewer posts to fill than his predecessors. He intends to cut the present ministries in half, from 27 to 13 or 14. In contrast with recent administrations in which the Finance Minister was a super-minister and sometimes used to be called Prime Minister, there will be a- more balanced distribution of power among the cabinets, with added emphasis to the areas of Education, Agriculture and Health.

Development -There is no money to finance development, and the Federal government intends to concentrate on social issues. It's hoped that private foreign and domestic investment will flow to the country due to these public measures: control of inflation and of' the public deficit, deregulation and privatization, and opening of the economy.

Money for investment in infrastructure should come from the sale of public assets, partnership with the private sector and foreign loans. Hard currency reserves should be used to import goods that will modernize the economy.

Jobs -Agriculture, housing construction and tourism will get special attention in order to create jobs. Small businesses will get special incentives including tax reductions. National and international loans as well as social funds and resources from the privatization program shall be used to finance the job program.

Education - More efficient schools will get more money. There will be room for everybody in first and second grades.

Minorities will have a better chance at education. The ministry will have the role of formulating policies, but state and local governments will be responsible for executing them.

Health - Investment of $80 a year per citizen. Decentralize the execution of health services in the country. Regulate the private health system. Creation of sanitary districts, in order to integrate health and sanitation programs.

Agriculture -Interest rates that guarantee competitiveness to the agricultural sector. Irrigate 300,000 hectares, one third of the Northeast. Settle 280,000 families through an agrarian reform program. Finance the creation of small and medium agribusiness's concerns, mainly in the Northeast.

Welfare -Contributions will be based on a more equal and just criterion. Creation of complimentary and voluntary welfare plans, be they public or private.

Inflation - Plano Real will be continued, while the economy is deindexed and the federal government tries seriously to balance the budget. To get to achieve this goal it will be necessary to go through a reform involving welfare, the income tax and state companies.

Privatization - With the exception of the communication and oil sectors, state companies will be privatized. In the areas of communication and energy, there will be partnership between State and the private sector.

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The divine (and tough) lady The new Brazilian first lady has been compared to Hillary Clinton. But you will see that Mrs. Clinton could learn some lessons of feminism with Ruth Cardoso. For her sheer intelect, she is probably closer to Simone de Beauvoir, the French philosopher she received and called a bore.

ALESSANDRA DALEV1 She hates to pose for pictures and she doesn't like to give interviews. Not that Ruth Cardoso, 64, the new Brazilian first lady has nothing to say or is shy about talking about it. It's mainly because while her husband was able to make the transition from academician to politician, the anthropologist can't shake the habit of telling things the way she sees them. On the rare occasions when she has opened her mouth since president elect Fernando Ilenrique Cardoso became a candidate for the presidency, the firefighters have had to be called.

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This happened, for example, in an interview with Rio daily Jornal do Brasil in which she commented on the alliance of her husband with conservative party PFL. "The PFL has ACM (Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, Bahia's ex-governor) but it also has Gustavo Krause and Reinold Stephanes," implying that Magalilacs was less than an honorable man. The declaration made FHC blush profusely.

The same day the interview was published, Cardoso called the folkloric Baiano politician five times to apologize, until he was able to talk directly to Magalhaes. He also called his wife's statement "an unhappy remark."

Ruth Vilaya Correa Leite, a native of Araraquara, a city in the interior of Sao Paulo, has already let it be known that she will not take any post normally associated with the first lady, such as the presidency of the federal assistential program called Legiao Brasileira de Assistencia (Brazilian Legion of Assistance). She is aware that the country has survived without any trauma for more than two years without a primeira dama — president Itamar Franco didn't cancel any of the receptions in Brasilia due to the lack of a spouse — and intends to continue her own activities as much as possible, including frequent trips to Sao Paulo to continue her own interests and activities. When the husband became a politician in 1982, she didn't follow Fernando Henrique to Brasilia, preferring to continue in their apartment in HigienOpolis, a high middle-class neighborhood close to downtown Sao Paulo. This time, however, she promises to respect all the rituals imposed by the presidency.

Ruth refers to her husband always with respect, calling him Fernando Henrique. At the beginning she didn't like the idea of his candidacy mainly because this would mean that her privacy would be shattered, something she was always very eager to preserve. Despite the success of her own career she got used to living in the shade of a very successful rutsband, moving with him to Chile, Paris and United States, while Cardoso, persecuted by the military regime, waited for a chance to go back to Brazil.

During" all this time she was the one in charge of raising their three children (Paulo Henrique, 40; Luciana, 36; and Beatriz, 34). She is proud that no one of them haS. officially married. Ruth herself would have preferred to just live together with Fernando Henrique, "but he acted as a scoundrel and in concert with my mother we ended in a middle field."

They married, but she was able to avoid the traditional ceremony and party.

She was 15 when she moved to the city of Sao Paulo to study in Des Oiseaux a traditional and for-girlsonly school. It was in 1951, while trying to get accepted by the School of Social Sciences at USP (Univer-

sity of Sao Paulo) that she met her future husband. Ruth was 23 when, two years later, she married Fernando Henrique. "We didn't have anything romantic between us," confessed the first lady recently. "We are anti-romantic." While Cardoso was a full time student, Ruth got a job in the university. Commenting about these years, Arthur Gianotti, a USP philosophy professor and friend of the couple since those times, noted, "She was very pampered in college, pretty, smart and still was supporting the husband."

Ruth doesn't hide the fact that she loves a soap-opera and doesn't mind spending a weekend in front of the TV shooting the breeze. But this is the same woman who is the director of CEBRAP (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning), one of the most respected social think tanks of Brazil. Her strength is in orienting candidates seeking a post-graduate or doctoral degree. But she is also author of Sociedade e Poder: representac des dos favelados de Selo Paulo (Society and Power: portrayals of Seto Paulo's slum dwellers), a study from 1978, considered by some as a mark in the studies dealing with power structure in the megalopolis.

The new first lady doesn't dodge a polemic. She criticizes the media and the political parties in Brazil for maintaining women at a distance, but curiously she regards soap operas as the main promoters of women's rights together with Liberation Theology, a leftist movement inside the Catholic Church condemned by the Pope. "I'm in favor of decriminalizing abortion," she says. -It's right. But this is a question that has to be seen as part of the health problem of women in Brazil. It cannot be a method of birth control but an individual option."

Being an atheist in the past Seems to have cost her husband the election for mayor of Sao Paulo. She prefers not to talk about her religious beliefs, "I had a Catholic upbringing, but I don't practice any religion nowadays.

I have extreme respect for religious people. These are questions from the private life." Ruth is also a gifted cook who likes to spend time experimenting with new recipes and then serving it to friends always welcome to her home. But don't ask her to be the most elegant in her block. She doesn't care about fashion, and has no time or patience to buy clothes.

Her main sources of new outfits are the surplus of her friends' wardrobes.

Comparing his wife to first lady Hillary Clinton, Cardoso commented, "Ruth will be similar to Hillary in the planning and creation of proposals, but not in their execution. Whoever knows her understands that she will not seek posts in the government."

She confirms, "Being a politician is not something for me. I don't believe I have the qualities to build bridges and agreements." For her friends she is the "divine lady". Why the epithet?

For her everything is always easy or she makes it seem like that. • NEWS from BRAZIL- NOVEMBER 1994

Here are some statistics about the Brazilian electorate and its socioeconomic distribution.

The next four years will reveal whether their faith in Fernando Henrique was justified. or whether it might have been better had they dared to dream.

Voters' profile Recruited by a weekly magazine, polling company Retrato tried to take a candid shot of the Brazilian electorate.

Here are the results.

1CATHERYN GALLANT When 34 million Brazilian voters placed an X beside the name of Fernando Henrique Cardoso on October 3, what did they expect him to do in his four-year term in the Palacio da Alvorada?

According to sociologist Maria Tercza Souza Monteiro, founder and owner of Retrato, a Brazilian polling firm, Brazilians "want to have the right to sleep, wake up. and leave home without any surprises, without having to contend with 'saviours of the fatherland,' 'Dut with trustworthy politicians who make the solution to political problems easy to swallow As Brazilian newsweekly Veja described in its cover story o October 5, Rctrato did eleven two-hour long interviews between August 16 to September 9 with 95 voters from Porto Alegre, S5o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia. and Salvador. Since the Brazilian electorate is 94.7 million, the interviewees represented approximately one-millionth of those going to the polls. While perhaps those 95 interviewees were not exactly, a representative sample of the electorate -- the interviewees were all between 25 to 45 and worked in t`typical middle-class professions" -- Souza Monteiro explains that 52.7% of the Brazilian electorate fits the young, urban, middle-class profile.

Ahhough every Brazilian voter has an equal say in the polling booth, this particular group is v ital to Brazilian public opinion. Says Souza Monteiro, We pick up with these groups the core of Brazilian society. deliberately ignoring the very poor, who are most concerned in day-to-day survival, and the very rich, who consider themselves above political contigencies. Sonic are left out because they don't think an election will change their lives, and others because they have a house and a bank account in Miami. The voters we want to hear are those who live in Brazil, of Brazil, and for Brazil. They are public opinion."

Based on her research for l'eja, Souza Monteiro declared that Fernando Henrique was a candidate with the "flavor of reelection."

His followers praise the "continuity" that they see in him. Those who supported Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had hoped to rally voters against Cardoso's status quo stance. However, even militants of the PT (Workers' Party) were reluctant to make serious criticisms of the Plano Real, whose success since its introduction in July virtually insured Cardoso 's election.

Says Sol172 Monteiro. "After the downfall of Fernando Collor, the Brazilian voter came to think about himself that he can vote badly. Voters are scared of being cheated again. The majority who are voting for Fernando Henrique are acting out of caution, in order to avoid unforeseen changes in the country. What struck rne, in this series of interviews, was the sensation that the voters were trying to keep their cool. The voters have renounced dreams that have always been an inseperable part of electoral campaigns. But this time, the voters have refused to dream."

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94..7 million able to vote 8.5 million illiterate 3.5 million college graduates 25.3 million only know how to read and write their own name 26.3 million are between the ages of 25 to 34. the largest age group of the electorate 2.1 million voters are 16 and 17 years old 20.7 million voters live in the state of Sao Paulo. the largest electoral college in the country

Voters' face The vast majority of the electorate is in classes C and D. which together total 73% of the population.

Class A Four percent of the population. They are educated (36 are college graduates), earn more than $3000 a month, and live comfortably (93% own their own home. 40% have a beach house, 100% have a car). The majority (53%) have three cars or more. They travel abroad every year (37%). like to go to the beach (70%), and go to the movies (63%) more often than to the theatre (39%).

Class B This class. 12% of the population. earns between $2000 to $3000 a month. Most have gone to college (but only 17% finished it). own their own car (82%) and home (77%). Their houses have two bathrooms and are equipped with refrigerator (100%), VCR (94%). and vacuum cleaner (77%). A minority have a house on the beach (12%). Only 10% travel abroad every year and 14% have travelled by plane within the country.

Class C This is 27% of the population. They earn between $1000 to $2000 a month. The majority (32%) did not finish school and live in their own home (68%). Almost all have a color TV (98%) and a refrigerator (98%). and fewer have a car (40%) and VCR (32%). In this group. 95% have a savings account, but only 8% have checking accounts and 14% use credit cards.

Class D This is the majority (46%) of the population.

These Brazilians earn between 500 to 1000 reais a month. They have little formal education (48% did not finish school and 24% are illiterate). Most are homeowners (60%) and have radio, sound system, and color TV. But only 2% go about in their own car.

Class E They comprise 11% of the population and earn less than $500 a month. The majority arc illiterate (54%) and have their own home (51%) and refrigerator (48%). Normally. they have a radio and a black-and-white TV. Their consumer goods end there. They don't travel, they don't have checking accounts. and only 1% have credit cards

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The greatest show on earth New findings reveal that the Amazon river is not only the biggest but also the longest in the world.

This, when Brazil is having trouble preserving its territorial integrity in the Amazon jungles and the Amazon cause itself is being sullied by an international scam.

CARLOS RAVELO The first explorers of the Amazon river were so impressed by it that they called it el mar duke (the sweet sea). Now. four centuries of ignorance and mistakes are being laid to rest. In Peru. the Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas .de la Amazonia Pcruana (HAP), or Institute for Scientific Investigations of the Peruvian Amazon, has reached the conclusion that the Amazon river is not only the most voluminous in the world: it is also the longest. The Amazon is 4269 miles long. That places it ahead of the Nile (4136) or the Mississippi-Missouri (3702). and thereby corrects its NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

previously designated length of 4030 miles.

The Guinness Book has been assigning a length of 4185 miles to the Amazon and 4135 to the Nile, but now there is an official conclusion. IIAP's vice-president.

Spanish researcher Joaquin Garcia Sanchez. who has been working in the Amazon for 27 years. says, "It was always doubted whether the Amazon was the world's longest river, but it practically cuts through the continent, from the Pacific to the Atlantic." Reversing four centuries of purported fact, the Institute indicates that assigning the Maranon river instead of the Ucayali river as the Amazon's true source contributed to this historical mistake.

Amazonia and the Amazon river are the world's life-blood.

The river, which in some areas is seven miles wide, carries one fifth of all fresh water which flows into the oceans of the world, each and every day: the equivalent of all the water flowing out of the Thames River in a whole year.

With over 1,100 tributaries and sub-tributaries feeding it. it covers an area of 7 million square kilometers. And two of its main rivers (Negro and Madeira) provide as much water as the Congo River. the second largest in terms of watervolume in the world. With over 49,600 miles of navigable waters. it sometimes seems to be an internal sea.

National security But the river itself is only part of the story. The Amazon's jungles and forests supply the oxygen the world needs to cleanse the air we breathe. Deforestation is slowly but surely taking its toll as well.

Maybe the most pressing problem that Brazil is encountering, however, is trying to hold on to its borders and somehow make foes — and friends— respect its sovereignty. Garimpeiros (gold miners) have been encroaching upon Indian reservations, cutting down forests, exterminating Indians and lately, crossing Brazil's borders into Surinam. French Guyana and Venezuela. always in the name of profit.

Several months ago the Venezuelan Armed Forces began to reinforce their country borders.

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--and'Weapotis hive been brO-Ught down in .Venezuela's Southern botder. In spite_ of Allis, -.there are no territorial disputes between the two countries; it itiSt Seeins_ to be a 'counter-Play by BraZirSnettherii reighbor,:inresponSe to Brazil's • ,-4- 410yment Of more ,military personnel into the Amazon State Of Roraima and Arnazhnia. Those ,states: border _Venezuela and Colombia.

1' Tensions relating to the border area are noth, rt.g'newf„Bver since the 60's, when the Veriezn-, elans tried to move into Brazilian" territaryland briefly: occupied Pico Seblina, 'Brazils • .''highest peak (3.014 meters), the problems have been: brewing. In -1990, Colombian pier. ,fillas became involved confrontations with the Brazilian Army and ::SAnce -16St year, gathnithos have been llegaily invading Yanoniamiinclian lands. Artiitherpetentialiprobleni 5lies at its Western bot7 tiers,. and it is posed b ••I2,000Seridero hewn (Shining Path) 'guerrillas, based in Peru's AniaZahregion: The drug-,cartels meals° based in Oise proximity tO the ColombiatriBrazilian bolt:, der and frequently'any themselves with the guerrillas, who provide protection while the cartel fronts the cash for atniing them.

A5more: piornirient role: of Brazil's military entre within its: northern borders is hardly a '7of-tite,moment type of move. An increased COOperation with Argentina — both econotni- chily and militarily — has given the inilitarY :establishment in Brasilia a new foeus: its borders .t the north and west. The poteritiateonflict point his been redraw:it from thesout6rit borders to elsewhere. According tO Reserve Admiral }remain GoulartFortuna Brazil "does notliave border Problems, but rather_ Within its ' bOrders." Ile is the author of ArgizOnia: reolidarde: e visa° pOlitico-e3trc4egice (Arnazo. _ Reality and a Political-grategic Overview). Brazilians began to worry about* northern bOrders after the cold war ended, In Roraima, near the border with Venezuela, the )Word macac.o. (monkey) does not carry the :same meaning as -elsewhere in the country, In this tast,maicacos :afe the Venezuelan Soldiers Who :Intensely patrol: thei7.; side of the beirder. These same soldiers have apparently precipithted -denied in Brasilia and in ,Caracas that ii somehow affecting the good will , previously evident between :the two neighbors.

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area I14 - we obstinately refused to budge, atleging that they are within Brazilian territoty. The Verteznelart National Guard, taking the offensive, has been harassing them. Landing ships have been bombed, .tree-tops have been machine gunned, and so on. Ai one a the latest incidents, one gaiimpeiro was killed, and three other seriously wounded,' arrested, and then sent to prison in Veneittela. AU were stripped of their gold and personal possessions.

These are the latest in a series of problems, purportedly initiated by the Venezuelan Aimed Forces. In 1991, a plane ivas shot and pilot Iran Farias barely escaped death, but now has Tout unremoveable bullets inside his body. In: January of 1992, another Cessna with Brazilian registration was shot at, and the pilot and passenger were shotort the ground, point blank, while waiting to receive emergency medical treatment, allegedly within Brazilian territory.

Part of the problem has been that the economic activity carried Out by the garimpeiros have been restricted by Venezuelan_ law. Chnsequently, income taxes collected by: Rorainra's state government, as well as severe' restrictions oft their operating area, have forced many garimpeiros to leave the state. The exodus become a stampede ,and there are fewer than 200,000 people living today in Roraima. Businesses have left or gone bankrupt, properties are for sale for a pittance, with very few takers wilfingtto buy. Bodi!Vitta, the capital, which used to have one of the Most active airports in the area with more than 50i private planes, now has fewer than 50.

Most private pilots have gone south, to engager Mostly in agricultural piloting activities. Accord: ing to Congresswoman Vera Regina Silveira, the only large industry remaining in the region is a Coca-Cola bottling plant. Silveira made the headlines in 1991 when in the Ompany of several dtliklegislators, she hOiSted a Brazilian flag in an area which they believed was Brazilian, but which is shown as Venezuelan in some maps.

She feels that if steps are not taken to solve the impending problems at the border, a social problem will eventually bedothe a th thaw one between the two conntriO. The 4esults so far have been 19 territorial violations attributed to the Venezuelan Armed Forcei, fesulting in five deaths, two„plattesshot own, two more Confiscated, and two shot at, : NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

more than 200 lb. of gold

-confiscated"; and over 200 garimpeiros arrested. jailed and supposedly mistreated, without any effective response from the Brazilian authorities or words of warning to the Venezuelan government. The only effective response, in fact, took place when a Brazilian patrol arrested 19 Venezuelan soldiers found close to Pico da Neblina, who were later traded for 42 garimpeiros.

More than 16,000 Brazilian garimpeiros are working in Venezuelan soil. They... have produced more than 25 tons of gold, and almost thousand karats of diamonds, according to certain source providing an $800 million influx for Venezuela's economy'. However, many in Brazil feel that the Venezuelan government is treating the garimpeiros like illegal immigrants. All of this is putting Brazil to the test of how far it is willing to go to protect its patrimonial Amazon borderlands.

A scandal Brazil and the Amazon made the headlines in London recently. Big time! According to Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad, a purported banker, philanthropist and member of the Amazon Parliament. Pedro Henricpie .., Noronhti de Aranjo, tried to place over $50 million into(,„. the international securitie market. But he was arrested and the letters of credit were confiscated before they hit the market After his arrest, AraUjo spent six months in a British jail cell; his passport was confiscated. The scam implicated banks, non-governmental agencies, the Brazilian Federal Police and, ultimately, Scotland Yard, A British citizen, John Rennie, stepped forward to denounce the scam, carried out under the name of the Justice Foundation. The alleged purpose of the agency was to obtain financing for social projects in Brazil.

Aranjo was introduced to Rennie by Margyt Payne who represents the Amazon Parliamentin Munich. Througn:: • NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

a series of skilled maneuvers, AraUjo managed to draw in Unibanco, one of Brazil's most prestigious and reliable overseas banks, using several letters of purported senators and representatives of the International Amazon Foundation.. in Braiii.

Aranjo was not new at the fraud game. In 1972 he was accused of forging a check and was arrested in the State of Para. His maneuvers involved dozens of people, and at last notice he had supposedly flown back to the city of Volta Redonda Within Brazil he was known to be a man -with connections" within the political elite in Brasilia, particularly during the eighties. He presented himself as being a businessman with investments in Germany. Meanwhile, the image of a Brazilian caught in a scam involving funds for the preservation and development of the Amazon has someholv discouraged sonic of those in Europe willing to help the Amazon cause.

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Mixing a variety of pre-pubes cent boy's room jokes, scatological humor with political and social satire, Belo Silva. Bussunda. Claudio Manoel, Hello de la Pena, Hubert, Marcelo Madureira and Reinaldo have made their mark upon the tube watchers in Brazil and television hasn't been the same since they showed up at the beginning of 1992.

Brazil has been watching them and can't stop laughing. This bunch of slapstick artists, who star a program called Casseta & Platreta on Globo TV, cover Brazil from top to bottoink. interview in the public-at-large in every major city, sometimes asking the most improbable questions with the strangest twtsts.

A typical example of their outrk geousness happened in Rome, at the end of last year. when they directed their cameras and microphones at unsuspecting Roman pedestrians with such questions as "Hasn't your mother aught you to wash your hands before a deal?" At that time Italians were in the middle of the so-called Clean Hands Operation, to eradicate corruption. Dressed as old Romans and riding on a carriage they also asked people on the street, "Please, where does Michelangelo live? And RaMaria Paula has just joined the group

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phacl? And Donatello? And Leonardo? You don't ,ow? Doesn't anybody here know where the Ninja Turtles hve?

Sometimes even though this is rare — they n can blush as much as their interlocutor. aMareelo espeadureira, for example, didn't repeat cially embarrassing and tasteless question after the respondent turned red during a Grand Prix of FOrMula 1. Madureira wanted to know from a girl in the bleachers if she would allow the star of competition to "go into her vacuum". And a iireira also didn't know what to say when a very uninhibited girl, answered his "Do you want T arcisio Meira's (a famous soap opera number?" with "No, I want yours." star) phone • In a New Year's special they celebrated the omit% year with these verses' Ano que vein vai ser too born Voce vol ganhar Inii110 clinheiro •.cescle que seja deputado, raficante ou etnpreitetro (This coming year will be so good You gonna make lots of money As long you are a congressman, A trafficker or a contractor) Ano que vein vol ser deinais Pro siia vida sexual voce vol poder tirar 6 atiaSO •Durante.:....4=....eleitoral.

(This coming year will be the best For your sexual life You will be able to catch up During TV election time) The Casseta & Planeta gang had never dreamed of doing that big in front of the cameras even though they had already shown their mettle behind the cameras. They are seven unkempt, zany and outrageous lunatics who by the end of 1993 had become the number one comedy team in 13razil, surpassing old-time leader Chico Any sio and his Escohnha do Professor Raimondo. Their huge success (more than 40% of all the public watching TV when the bad boys are on the air) was quite a shock even for their bosses at Globo.

A talented group of young men, all had already been writing sketches for Globo, as well as publishing a humor magazine, besides moonlighting as musicians. Despite their oddities and exaggerations they have had very little problem with censorship. Even the Escolinha, also at Globo, has not escaped the parodies they make of everyone and everything, to the dismay of comedian Chico Anysio. Former president Collor de Mello, his wife Rosane, President Hamar Franco

Dcvagar Franco, the character who satirizes the President, has been a big hit and almost every politico or person of social relevance in Brazil have had his or her turn to be roasted.

Prior to their television follies, the group had been successful with Carioca (from Rio) antics, a wild assortment of below-the belt-line type of humor locally known as neogrossismo. Their publication, aptly named Casseta Popular, was highly successful. However, the switch to TV audiences entailed a hidden risk, since it was unknown whether the public-at-large was both willing and disposed towards their zany-verging-on-psychotic type of VI-NEME Carioca humor.

Says Hubert, "There are people out there that think tEere must be something wrong if the domestic worker likes the program. That is not the case. Just the opposite. Many limes it seems to be the only reasonable program available for people who are tired of the banalities of the rest of the programming available on TV." Casseta is not a success just because they have an off-beat type of humor. The seeds of their success were planted in 1478 at the Faculty of Engineering at Rio de Janeiro's Federal University. . A simple mimeographed flyer published by Helio, Marcelo and Roberto Adler ---- joined a few years later by Bussunda and Claudio — struggled to become Planeta Diana and later Revisla Casseta. By 1987. Boni, the all-powerful executive at Globo network, had fallen for their comEdia !Duca (crazy comedy). In 1989 they marketed an album under the outrageous name ofPreio coin um Buraco no Akio (Black, with a Hole in the Aliddle). In 1994 they published 0 Grande Livro de Pensamentos c/a Casseta& Planeta.

Most have professional degrees — usually in enginecing and have an above average knowledge outside their respective fields. In spite of "um their success, all the guys have a normal life.

None use drugs, they arc regarded as highly professional and have no inter-group jealousies. Except for Claudio, all are married, and they never disco into the night. One reason. says Bussunda, is that they hate to have to make jokes to drunkards or have to listen to • them

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Seca no nordeste. Na Amazonia, chcia — lcu Maria Emilia na manchete do jornal preso aos varais da banca corn prendedores de roupa. Desviou o olhar severo para a capa da revista corn o jovem casal de biquini amarelo, eta na frente. dc ands. enlacando-a na altura dos scios nus, amassados sob os bracos peludos. Estavam molhados como se tivessem saido juntos de uma ducha. Sarios. Por que todas essas fotos obscenas tinham esse ar agressivo? Emcndados feito ,animais.

E brilhosos. escorrendo uma agua oleosa, desde Sodoma e Gomorra os Oleos e ungiientos perfumados fazendo pane das orgias. Ate a manteiga, imagine, a inocente manteiga. Audacia da Mariana em contar o episOdio da manteiga. aqucla indecencia que viu em Paris. E se sacudindo de rir, foi engracado. Mimi, de dancando o tango de calcas abaixadas, tao comico! E confessou que viu a fita duas vezes para entender melhor aquele pedaco, a debiloide. E o Disse que apareceu uma marca de manteiga que aproveitou para fazer sua propaganda, funcional corn ou sem sal! Tres anos mais elha do que cu, scssenta c quatro e meio. E se deliciando corn a ccna de um anormal pcdindo mantciga.

Como C que as autoridades permitem tamanho deboche? Falta de respeito.

De pudor. Se uma mulher de sessenta e guano anos e meio se deixava levar como uma folha na correnteza, que dizer entho dos jovens? Mcus Cons. meus Ceus. os frageis joy ens sem estrutura, sem defesa, vendo essas fitas. Essas publicacees.

Televisao era outro foco de imoralidade. Animcios mais sujos, uma afronta. Hoje mesmo escreveria uma carta ao 29

Jornal da Tarde, carta vazada em termos educados. Suspirou. Ainda ha pessoas educadas mas que tambem (a fisionomia endureceu) podem ficar colericas. Senhor Diretor: antes e acima de tudo, quero me apresentar, professora aposentada que sou, paulista, solteira. Urn momento, solteira, Ito, imagine, por que declinar meu estado civil? Basta isto, uma professora paulista que tomou a liberdade de lhe escrever porque a ninguem mais lhe ocorre expor sua revolta, mais do que revolta, seu horror diante desse espetaculo que a nossa pobre cidade nos obriga a presenciar desde o instante em que se pde o pa na ma. 0 pe na ma? A coisa ja invadiu a intimidade dos nossos lares, no tenho filhos, é logic°, mas se tivesse estaria agora desesperada, essa mania de iniciar as criancas em assuntos de sexo, esses livros, esses programas infantis, Senhor Diretor, e esses programas que conspurcam nossas inocentes criancas, bem como fizeram corn a manteiga... Urn momento, espera, esse pedaco nao: digo que a teve esta exorbitando, de urn modo geral, em nos impor a imagem da bocalidade e digo que resisti em comprar uma, bem que resisti, Senhor Diretor. Mas sou sozinha e as vezes, a solidao. A perigosa solidao. Mas fico vigilante (aprumou-se, levantou a cabeca) para nao acontecer comigo o que aconteceucom a Mariana, to fina, tao prendada. Familia tradicional, de urn dos melhores troncos paulistas, olha al a Mariana.

Viagem joia. Fiz compras lindas mas esta na hora de voltar porque minha ca/ca já perdeu o vinco, escreveu no cartao que me mandou de Manaus. A calca perdeu o vinco e ela, a vergonha. Sessenta e quatro anos e meio. Quem visse, podia 30

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Espera, jovem nao, que jovem nao se importa corn vinco de calca, postal de umavelha mesmo e corn medo de parecer desatualizada. Entao conta bandalheiras, me diz oi no telefone e usa calcagrudadanoderriere . So falta usar aquelas camisetas corn coisas escritas nas costas. Tanto medo, SenhorDiretor. Tanto medo. Eu tamb am tenho medo, é duro envelhecer, reconheco.

Mas e o orgulho? Apertou a bolsa contra o peito e lancou urn olhar em redor. Meus cabelos branquearam, meus dentes escureceram e minhas mdos, Senhor Diretor, estas maos que — era voz corrente — foram sempre o que tive de mais bonito. Olhou as proprias maos enluvadas. Ainda bem.

— A senhora me da licenca? — disse o vendedor de jornais despregando do varal a revista corn os jovens escorrendo agua.

Ela afastou-se coin um olhar desaprovador para a mocinha de olhos bistrados, mascando chicle de bola: queria a revista e queria tambem uma novela em quad rinhos, "aquela ali", pediu e entre os labios o chicle estufou rosado ate estourar num puf! MariaEmilia voltou depressa para o outro lado o rosto desgostoso: eis ai. Já estava escrevendo uma outra carta, meus Ceus, ndo misturar os assuntos que velhice era outro topic°, agora tinha que se concentrar nessa sufocante vaga de vulgaridade que contaminav a ate as pedras. A poluicdo tambem ficaria para uma outra vez, o que interessava denunciar era essa poluicdo da alma. A Mariana, por exemplo.

Esta resistindo bem ao ar, ate que esta saudavel apesar da asma mas e por dentro? Resistir, quem ha de? Uma ilusao gemia em cada canto — gemia ou chorava? Tempo de sentimento.

De poesia. Agora o tempo ficou so de detergentes para as pias, desodorantes para as partes, a quantidade de anUncios de desodorantes. Como se o simples sabdo nao resolvesse mais. Mariana ouvia a publicidade na teve, no radio, entrava nos mercados e comprava tudo, ate pilulas homeopaticas para excesso e escassez, mas Mariana, minha querida, já faz tanto tempo que voce esta na menopausa! Ela riu, meu Deus, é claro, ando atordoada corn tanta ordem que eles ddo, lido 6 que acabei me distraindo? Urn dia ainda vai me dizer que foi lancado o ser bionic() para damas e cavalheiros solitarios, a teve deu. Mimi, fazem tudo corn a gente! Portatil. Eletrodomesticos. Eletrochoques. Desconfio as vezes que ela esta ficando louca, que todos estamos ficando loucos. Que estamos nos afastando cada vez mais de um planeta de paz e nos aproximando rapidamente de outro planeta so de aflicao, sO de violencia (essa iddia é boa) e dai, Senhor Diretor, é preciso alertar a populacao, alertar as autoridades, temos que neutralizar essa influencia perversa. 0 senhor, eu — a elite pode estar a salvo. Mas e os outros? Quando fui de onibus para Brasilia, eu mesma lido me envolvi como uma crianca debil? For toda pane so um anancio, BEBA COCA-COLA! BEBA COCA-COLA! Nas estradas, nas cidades, nas arvores e nas fachadas, nos muros e nos postes, ate na toalete de lanchonetes

perdidas la no inferno velho, a ordem, BEBA COCA-COLA! E eu entao — ai de mim! — corn' toda a ojeriza que tenho por esse , refrigerante, pensando em pedir uma Cornea corn limdo on um guarana, naquele calor e naquele cansaco cheguei no baled° e pedi uma coca-cola gelada. Acordei do obumbramento engolindo aquela coisa marrom corn gosto de sabonete de trem, tinha um trem (faz tanto tempo, Senhor Diretor) corn esse sabonete redondo e preto, dependurado na correntinha do toalete. Men pai me ajudava a esfregar as mdos, eu era urna menininha de cachos mas ate hoje sinto o cheiro daquela espuma.

Imagine se papai estivesse vivo e soubesse do que aconteceu no Municipal, um moco subindo no palco e fazendo a necessidade, ali em cima dos dourados, sob as vistas de Carlos Gomes, de Verdi!

Espera, melhor cortar esse pedaco, mais objetividade: insistir apenas nisso, no perigo dessa propaganda que bem dirigida pode ate torcer urn destino como aquele magic() torcia talheres. A ordem de beber coca-cola rido corresponde de um certo modo a essa ordem de fazer amor, faca amor, faca amor!

Cheguei um dia a ter uma miragem quando em lugar da .garrafinha escorrendo agua no anuncio, vi urn Mins no fundo vermelho. Em erecao, espumejando no ceu de fogo — horror, horror, nunca vi nenhum falus mas a gente näo acaba mesmo fazendo associacides desse tipo? E os santos, meus como é que estdo se defendendo os que tern vocacdo para a santidade? E preciso ter couro de jacare para agfrentar tamanho impacto. E esta pobre pele tab fina apesar do tempo, ainda preservada nas partes cobertas. Nao foi no jornal que a Mariana leu (o fascinio que tern por jornais populares) o caso daquele moco? Monstruosidade, o moco que pegou uma garrafinha de coca-cola e enfiou quase inteira la dentro da menina, horrivel, quando chegaram ao hospital ela ja estava agonizando, mas por que fez isso, monstro?! 0 delegado perguntou e ele respondeu chorando aos gritos que tambem ndo sabia, tido sabia, s6 se lembrava que uma vez leu numa revista que ear Hollywood, numa festa que durou tres dias, um artista enfiou uma garrafa de champanha na namorada quando tambem no conseguiu fazer natural mente . Mas NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

me lembrei disso por lembrar, ideias extravagantes.

Assustou-se corn a buzina de urn carro que passou rente calcada, levantando poeira, mas é preciso buzinar assim? Aproximou-se novamente da banca e percoffeu corn o olhar incerto o jornal que o vento sacudia. E se fosse tranqiiilamente ler na praca?

Mas a praca devia estar tAo suja, que prazer podia se encontrarnuma praga assim? Era urn born assunto para a carta, a sujeira dos nossos jardins, o infico problema que podia ficar comprida demais. E queria ser breve. Mas é dificil ser breve, Senhor Diretor. Tao dificil.

0 Nordeste passa por umaforte estiagem que já destruiu mais de 90% da producao agricola ao passo que a Amazonia sofre o flagelo das cheias corn a chegada das chuvas — leu Maria Emilia.

Desespero na escassez. Desespero no excesso. Nao tive ninguem mas Mariana exorbitou: nes maridos sernfalar nos amantes. Rim quente.

Sc puclesse fazer uma plastica, ainda ia vontinuar mas Doutor Braga foi positivo, se a senhora se opera, fica na mesa que seu cora* nao agtienta, esth me compreendendo? Compreendeu. Ainda bem.

A Elza nao ficou? Outra vitima da publicidade, a querida Elza.

Lastimava tanto a agitacao de Mariana, se gabava de aceitar a velhice sem resistencia, a s pobre querida. Mas tantb ouviu contar das rainhas e estrelas de cinema chegando de longe para renovar a cara, que acabou se impressionando, era muito impressionavel.

0 telefonema de madrugada, Dona Maria Emilia, eu queria avisar que o enterro da vovo vai ser As nove horas, sabemos que cram tao amigas. Mas enterro de quern, meus Cats?! Da Elza? Mas a Elza morreu? Nffo, a Elza, nao! estivemos juntas faz dois dias, ela estava esplendida ! Sincope? Sincope cardiaca? Mesmo ern meio do meu pranto, senti as reticencias do neto, cheguei a pensar num absurdo, quer ver que ela se matou? Enterro As nove. Quando me debrucei no caixffo é que entendi tudo, a querida, a pobre querida corn a cara toda pincelada de mercuro cromo. Morreu na anestesia, quando o tal medico corn nome de bicho, como é mesmo? bem, quando ele ja se preparava para os primeiros cones. Imagine, operar uma velha,.Elzatinha seguramente seis anos mais do que eu. Mas é NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

proibido envelhecer? Outro ponto importante, Senhor Diretor, devia haver urn dispositivo regulando isso, essa velharada se operando por ai, já corn comeco de esclerose. Nem agonizantes escapam, lembra da prima do Leal que estava corn aquela doenca? Um me's antes da morte a pobrezinha inventou de puxar a cara e o medico sabia, o mercenArio. 0 consolo que ela morreu bastante remocada, a tonta da Mariana veio me dizer na missa.

Um cinpina? Olhou o ceu de urn aml palido.

Puro. Uma pena trocar aquela tarde por uma sala escura mas ir onde entao? Urn chA? Mas _sera que restara alguma confeitaria decente por au? Ficou olhando, crispada, homem de cabelos emplastrados que se aproximou para examinar de perto o poster colorido preso no varal inferior da banca. Ele usava brilhantina e mesmo sem ver-lhe a cara podia adivinhar a cupidez dos olhinhos ramelosos (deviam ser miados, ramelosos) colados ao biquini vermelho da ruiva montada de frente numa cadeira, empinados os bicos dos seios duros.

Boas, chap& de cowboy, um revolver em cada mAo. E o biquini tao ajustado ente as pemas que se via nitidamente o monticulo de pelos aplacados sob o cetim, mais expostos do que se estivessem sem nada em cima. Olha at, Senhor Diretor. A imagem da mulher objeto, como dizem as meninas IA do grupo feminista.

Meninas inteligentes, cultas, quase todas de nivel universithrio. Mas meus Ceus, se ao menos fossem mais moderadas. Mais discretas.

Reivindicar tanta coisa ao mesmo tempo, tanta • mudanca de repente nao pode ser prejudicial?

Um abalo nas nossas raizes, acho que estao correndo demais. Corn a idade delas eu nem pensava, por exemplo, nessa palavra, prostituta. E a pthpria se levanta e comeca a defender a profissao, pensei que nffo estivesse entendendo direito, profissao ? E a jovem au em came e osso, precisei me beliscar, mas sera que estou acordada? Ate que tinha um jeitinho de secrethria de uma dessas finnas americanas, o perfil mimoso que me fez lembrar uma antiga colega do Des Oiseaux, a Carola, que morreu . antes da nossa primeith comunhao.

Juro que me esforcei para compreender, participar da sua colera, a mundana estava colerica corn uma serie de coisas realmente deplorAveis que a policia faz corn essas mulheres. Entao tentei ficar solidariana c6lera e descobri que estava era corn raiva dela, ora, que despauterio! Seth que no podia escolher uma outra atividade? Assegurar sua liberdade profissional, que topete! Quando se levantou a advogada de 6culos, respirei: agora o nivel das discussOes vai subir, pensei, e ate que no comeco ela foi bastante feliz quando fez uma exposicao das raizes histericas da condicao da mulher, acho tao nobre essa expressao, condicao da mulher. E de repente desatou a falar em clitoris, porque o clitoris, o clitoris...

E corn homens por au, eu ja nao sabia onde enfiar a cabeca quando ela contou que nao sei mais em que pals des faziam uma incisao no clit6ris da mulher para que ela nao sentisse nenhum prazer, o sexo transformado em

agulheiro —simples instrumento de penetracao. E deu ,outros exemplos igualmente hoffiveis, concord°, uma cnteldade essas praticas todas. Mas trazer isso num debate? Quis disfarcar, mostrar que nao estava chocada mas quando dei conta de mini, estava aplaudindo mais do que todas, sempre acontece ,que por timidez, por medo do palco acabo entrando no proprio. Se freqiientasse esse grupo, ia aeabar como a Mariana, de jeans e dedos cheios de andis.

Os crimes contra a mulher, agora lembro, era esse 0 tema da mesa redonda. Eu acuso, eu acuso! repetia uma moca de bata rendacla, gravicla e defendendo o direito de Abortar, tinha sido violentada em plena rua e agora atacava ate o Papa, Deus que me perdoe a heresia mas em casos assim extremos quem sab,e seria mesmo aconselhAyel alguma medida que interrompesse a gestacao? Fiquei corn muith pena, eu acuso, eu acuso! ela repetia corn os olhos cheios de lAgrimas, mas ao mesmo tempo, aceitei o abbrto --- oh, essa palavra tao forte. Fiquei deprimida, pensando na mamde que nao fez a tal incisao mas que nunca sentiu o menor prazer. E teve oito filhos.

Oito. Quarenta anos de casamento sem prazer: um agulheiro calado.

Mas jA estou eiweredando por outros caminhos, que dificil, meus Ceus, dizer exatamente o que se deseja dizer, tanta coisa vem pelo meio. A Forma, fria e espessa, 6 um sepulcro de neve... E a Palavra pesada abafa a Ideia leve — escreveu Olavo Bilac, na Mania Verba. Meu poeta predileto, Senhor Diretor, sempre gostei de poesia. Ate declamava. E se no final da carta, a guisa de, quem pede desculpas, transcrever esses versos? Mas espera, vamos pelo principio. Senhor Diretor: antes e acima de tudo quero me apresentar

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professora que sou. Paulista.

Aposentada. Paulista aposentada, olha al a tolice. Professora que sou, aposentada. Corn duas rugas fundas entre as sobrancelhas de tanto olhar brava para as meninas, nao you escrever esse pedaco mas me lembro bem do comeco dessas rugas, querendo corn elas segurar aquela meninada que vinha espumejante como um rio, cobrindo tudo, tamanha forca, uma classe depois da outra, uma depois da outra — por que me fazem pensar num rio sem principio nem fim?

Eu ficava sem voz de tanto pedir silencio, a garganta escalavrada.

Entflo olhava corn essa cara e elas jam sossegando, durante alguns minutos ficavam corn medo. Para recomecar em seguida na maior algazarra, os peitinhos empurrando o avental, excitadas, funidas, explodiam principalmente no verao. Eu evitava rocar nelas quando voltavam do recreio, mais forte o cheiro acid° de suor e poeira, mastigando ainda a banana, o pao corn manteiga. Os gritos, os risos, a raiva — tudo uma coisa so. No fim'do ano, se despediam chorando, me davam Bores. Me esqueceram todas. A marca ficou so em mim, nesse meu jeito de olhar as pessoas, vigilante, desconfiada. A verdade 6 que eu tinha medo delas como elas tinham medo de mim mas seu medo era curto. 0 meu foi tao longo, Senhor Diretor. Tao longo.

Lancou um Ultimo olhar para a banca de jornais, onde o jornaleiro palitava os dentes e proseava corn o homem da brilhantina. Uma altiva dama bem distante de toda essa frivolidade — os dois deveriam estar pensando quando passou diante deles, pisando corn firmeza, emocionada corn a pr6pria distincao. Foi indo pela calcada batida de sol, nao era mesmo uma delicadeza aquele so!? Levou a ma° a lapela do casaco para se

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certificar: a camelia ainda estava au. Uma pequena extravagancia, Senhor Diretor, hoje é o meu aniversario e como estava urn doming° tao azul, prendi aqui esta for. Meu costume 6 sobrio, meu penteado é s6brio. Uma sobria senhora que se permitiu usar uma for, posso?

Deixou que os labios se distendessem num remoto sorriso que a fez pensar na Gioconda, tinha a gravura fixada no vidro da estante, o sorriso assim mesmo, reticente, maduro de sabedoria (apertou os olhos) e inabordavel.

Devia ser tambem uma mulher so. Adentrando a velhice (pisou corn mais firmeza) e intacta.

Apertou a bolsa debaixo do brag() e cruzou molemente as ma-os na altura do peito, num movimento de pontas de xale, as longas franjas (relaxou os dedos) pendendo — mas o que significa isso? Fechou o sorriso. Essa mulher ai de minissaia, vindo toda rebolante corn o homem de oculos escuros. Varizes nas pernas.

E a inconsciente corn o saiote ridiculo mostrando a rendinha da calca, mas e a policia?

Ndo tern mais policia nesta terra? Logo atrAs, uma pequena prostituta (catorze anos?) mal se equilibrando nos tamancos corn grossas plataformas de cortica, as palpebras pesadas de purpurina verde. Colado ao seri calcanhar, o velho de perfil de cacador meus Ceus, mas onde anda o juizado de menores? Em pleno dia.

Urn farrapo de papel higienico azul levantou-se do lixo amontoado na esquina e veio em voo rasteiro, ondulante no inesperado vento. Ela desviou-se rapida e a serpentina se enrolou no tornozelo do homem que vinha urn pouco atras, descascando uma tangerina. 0 homem ia atirando as cascas para os lados. semeador alegre. Realizado. Quando emparelhou corn ele, ostensivamente ela indicou mirn movimento de cabeca,a lixeira metalica, presa ao poste: Sao Paulo E Uma Cidade Limpa — estava escrito na lixeira quase vazia. Mas o homem prosseguia cuspindo os carocos corn forca, como uma crianca disputando corn outra para ver quern consegue cuspir mais longe.

Compete a prefeitura, Senhor Diretor, estudar urgentemente urn projeto de educacdo desse povo que tern a idade mental daquelas meninas que eu ia fiscalizar quando saiam do reservado, puxou a descarga? eu perguntava. E a cara inocente de susto, ai! esqueci. Mas sera que s6 eu no meio desta multidao se importa? Se constrange? Parou desarvorada na esquina.

Avancou o olhar por cima dos carros ate o imenso cartaz de cinema no outro lado da ma.

Fita nacional? Nacional, claro, se tern cama, mulher corn cara de gozo e homem em trajes menores, s6 pode ser cinema brasileiro, uma verdadeira afronta, incrivel, como a censura permite? Nao, a carta nao seria sobre o lixo, nada de misturar os assuntos, a sujeira interna, Senhor Diretor, essa é pior do que o lixo atomico porque nao se lava corn uma simples escova. Acelerou a marcha, devia ter outro cinema adiante, esperaria pela noite num cinema, agradeco muito, meus queridos, mas hoje já tenho urn compromisso corn urn grupo de amigas, vao me oferecer urn cha, voces nao se importam se marcarmos urn outro dia?

Protestaram corn enfase, ate que se importavam e muito, oh, mas que tia ingrata, esnobando a sobrinhada no dia do aniversario.

E bem no fundo sera que nao sentiram a maliciosa alegriazinha de quern acaba de ganhar uma tarde? E sem remorso, pois nâo foi ela que recusou? Agora au estava, cercada de gente por todos os lados. E ainda mais solitaria do que fechada no quarto, onde seus objetos !he asseguravam a memona já na faixa de inseguranca, badulaques. Retratos. Vontade de voltar depressa, mas nao, saira para fazer um programa, nao posso estar corn voces porque me comprometi corn minhas amigas.

As amigas. Eleonora, de bacia quebrada, a coitadinha. Mariana, se embaralhando em alguma mesa, a cabeca ja nao dava nem para urn sete-e-meio e inventou de aprender bridge, ilk) estava na moda?

Beatriz, pajeando o bando de netos enquanto a nora adernava no oitavo mes. E Elza estava morta.

No fim do quarteirao, um cinema menor exibia cartazes corn cenas de cacadores nUm safari.

Interessou-se pela foto da loura sendo atacada por um crocodilo enquanto o cacador (mas que homem lindo) era pisoteado por urn javali. Ainda bem. 0 porteiro informou que a fita já ia adiantada, por acaso nao preferia entrar na proxima sessao? Agradeceu mas nao podia esperar, a temperatura estava caindo, logo mais seria inverno corn chuvisco e esquecera o guarda-chuva. Tambem esqueci o meu, ele disse e ela o encarou mais demoradamente, nao era mesmo gentil? Ern meio da invastio dos barbaros, ainda restavam alguns antigos habitantes da aldeia, raros, sim, completamente derrotados (a roupa do porteiro mal guardara a cor) mas conservando o sentimento do respeito ao proximo, nao, no pedia amor mas ao menos respeito. Desceu a escada apoiada ao corrimao. E ao olhar dele tao zeloso, podia jurar que a seguia, cuidado corn os degraus!

Entrou emocionada no aconchego da sala escura. Pouca gente.

Descansou a bolsa no colo, abriu o both° da gola da blusa e colocou os oculos. Na tela, urn barbudo de cabelos esgrouvinhados espiava por entre a folhagem uma loura que tinha ido nadar nua na lagoa.

Ela foi afundando na poltrona enquanto a loura emergia do fundo na direcao do homem, meus Ceus, tambem aqui?! Fixou o olhar no NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

casal todo enrolado na fileira da frente. Beijavam-se corn tanta ffiria que o som pegajoso era ainda mais nitido do que o barulho dos dois corpos amassando a folhagem na tela. Um pouco adiante, na mesma fileira, outro casal que acabara de chegar já se atracava resfolegante, a ma° dele procurando sob as roupas dela — encontrou? Encontrou. Podia sentir o halito ardente dos corpos se sacudindo tao intensamente que toda a tosca fila de cadeiras comecou a se sacudir no mesmo ritmo. Encolheu-se. Feito bichos.

0 melhor era nab ligar, pensar em outra coisa, que coisa? A manchete, tinha memoria excelente, no colegio podia repetir uma pagina inteira lida duas ou ads vezes, o Nordeste passa por uma forte estiagem, por uma forte estiagem — mas onde anda o homem da lanterninha, nao tern mais esse homem? Eram tao atentos os vagalumes acendendo suas lantemas na cara dos inconvenientes, mas nao vai clarear? Se ao menos clareasse. Segurou corn forca no assento e o couro da poltrona lhe pareceu viscoso, semen? Calcou as luvas e juntou as pernas. Senhor Diretor: antes e acima de tudo, quero me apresentar, professora aposentada que sou. Paulista.

Virgem. Fechou os olhos, virgem, virgem verdadeira, nao é para escrever mas nfio seria urn dado importante? Desabotoou o Segundo botao. a blusa encolheu na lavagem ou seu pescoco estava mais grosso? Sentiu-se desalinhada, descomposta mas deixa en ficar urn pouco assim, esta escuro. ninguem esta prestando atencao em mim, nem no claro prestam, quem é que esta se importando, quern? E se por acaso o certo for isso mesmo que esta ai? Esse gozo, essa alegria nmida nos corpos. Nas palavras. Esse arfar espumejante como o rio das meninas la atras, tentou dete-lo corn sua voz rouca. corn seus vincos e ele transbordou inundando tudo, camas, casas, ruas... E se o normal for o sexo contente da moca suspirando aqui adiante — pois nao seria para isso mesmo que foi feito? Virgem, Senhor Diretor. Que sei eu desse desejo que ferve desde a Biblia, todos conhecendo e gerando e conhecendo e gerando, homens, plantas, bichos. Mamae tinha medo do sexo, herdei esse medo — rick foi dela que herdei? Aquelas mocas la do movimento, tao desreprimidas, tao soltas, sera que sao assim mesmo ou representam?

Nenhum pudor, falam de tudo.

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Fazem tudo. Meu constrangimento quando me queixei para mamae e o constrangimento dela quando me levou a medica, so uma mulher podia examinar minhas partes, baixava a voz quando diziapartes. Minha filha esta corn um pouco de corrimento, disse e fez aquela cara infeliz. Enrijeci as pernas quando o dedo enluvado me tocou e me lembrei dela dizendo minha avó que cumpria seus deveres de esposa sem nenhum prazer ate o amargo fim.

Ate o amargo fim, mamae? A fonte do seu sofrimento era agora esta fonte de onde corria urn fluxo. Tentei, me descontrair na posick medonha (voce esta tao dura, menina, parece de ferro, relaxa que nao you te machucar) olhei para mamae. Ela era inteira uma estatua lacrimosa, apertando solidaria a minha mao.

Pronto, pode vestir a calcinha, ordenou a voz por entre minhas pernas. Nada grave, menina, N'OCe tern flores brancas* vezes as virgens padecem disso. Flores-brancas. Secaram, Senhor Diretor, tambem elas foram secando.

Seca tudo, a velhice é seca, toda agua evaporou de mim, minha pele secou, as unhas secaram, o cabelo que estala e quebra no pente. 0 sexo sem secrecoes. Seco. Faz tempo que secou completamente, fonte selada. A unica diferenca é que urn dia, no nordeste, volta a chuva.

Na tela, o homem do safari entrou na tenda e deitou-se sob o mosquiteiro, fumando tristissimo porque a amante (mulher do amigo) estava de partida, era mais uma historia de traicao. Soubera de tantas, a comecar por Mariana quando veio lhe pedir chorando que nao ficasse brava, que nab a condenasse, nao briga comigo, Mimi, mas estou apaixonada pelo Afonso! Que Afonso, Mariana? So conheco um. o amigo do seu marido, nao é o amigo do seu marido? E os olhos de Mariana se abrindo feito duas torneiras: amigo intimo. Foi implacavel, brigou, voce é uma louca, Mariana, uma louca varrida, por que nao escolheu ao menos um homem de fora, um estranho? E ela enxugando a cara perplexa, mas Mimi, entk voce nao compreende? A gente acaba se apaixonando pelos da roda mesmo. Afonso é parecido corn meu marido, parecido comigo. a gente tern os mesmos gostos, freqfienta os mesmos lugares e um dia se olha e entk é tarde. E tarde, ficou repetindo e sacudindo a cabeea desarvorada, os cabelos ainda castanhos, ainda corn a cor natural. na velhice é que tingiu as mechas de louro-acinzentado.

Nilo me condene, pediu tanto. Condenei-a, sim, e corn que rigor. Nao seria pura inveja?

Esse men sentimento de superioridade.

Desprezo. Inveja, meus Cells? Eu tinha inveja da sua vida inquieta, imprevista, rica de acontecimentos, rica de paixao — era entk inveja? Olha que voce pintou e bordou. eu the disse outro dia e ela riu e seu olhar ficou timid° como se ainda fosse jovem, juventude é umidade. Os poros fechados retendo a agua da came sumorosa, que fruto lembra, pessego? que a gente morde e o sumo escorre calido, a gente?

Que os outros morderam, que sei eu desse fruto? Entrelkou as mks no regko. Assim no escuro as luvas pareciam tao brancas, como se nunca tivessem tocado em nada. Fechou depressa os bracos contra o corpo para nibo rocar corn o cotovelo no homem que se sentou

na poltrona ao lado. Coma corn as asas fechadas, mamae me dizia.

Viva corn as asas fechadas, podia ter dito. Sim, o meu amor por Deus. Mas tanta disciplina, tanta exatidao pode se chamar de amor?

Se ao menos tivesse entrado para um convento, me abrasado nas vigilias, nos jejuns, dilacerando pes e mks na piedade — que provas dei da minha devocao? E a vontade de Deus, mamae costumava dizer e Cu fiquei repetindo, é a vontade de Deus, mas seria mesmo? Que sei eu dessa Vontade?

Minha nota subiu, professora? So se o caderno estiver em ordem, sem rasgeies on nodoas, encapado corn papel-manteiga verde. Manteiga corn ou sem sal. Que sei eu desse rio corn seus descaminhos?

Mas nao é no corkao que vac) dar todos eles? 0 corkao, ele tambem Ilk se irriga nesse amor?

Abriu a bolsa. tirou o lenco e enxugou os olhos. Atraves do vidro embkado dos oculos, pressentiu que a fita chegava ao fim e desejou ardentemente que ela se prolongasse. agora nao queria mais a claridade, espera. estou tao desalinhada. meus Cans, deixa me abotoar e este cabelo, onde foi pararo grampo? Apalpou depressa a lapela do casaco, desprendeu a camelia e guardou-a no fundo da bolsa. A lagrima contornou-the a boca, limpou a boca, como fui me comover desse jeito? Feito uma velha tonta, espera, eu estava querendo dizer que a nossa cidade.

Senhor Diretor, que esta pobre cidade — que é que tern mesmo esta pobre cidade? Acabei falando em outras pessoas. em mim, espera, vamos comecar de novo. sim, a carta. Senhor Diretor: antes e acima de tudo. Antes e acima de tudo, Senhor Diretor. Senhor Diretor: Senhor Diretor.

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It was war Twenty three years after his death in the backlands of Bahia, the story of the most famous Brazilian guerrilla is being told for the first time in a movie. The Army captain who in 1969 deserted with a truck full of weapons to join the armed fight against the military regime is presented as a hero.

HARRIET

ROBBINS

Brazil is slowly bouncing back from what was a disastrous movie-making slump. There is a long road ahead, but the good news is that the 1994 crop of films show that film production has been rising and new sources of funding are emerging. One of these films. Lamarca, has been critically acclaimed by the Brazilian critics and at the recent 19th Toronto International Film Festival: Directed by Sergio Rczende. the film is based on a true story that took place in the late sixties.

Brazil was in the grip of a ruthless military junta.

The junta's policy was to suppress dissent and all those who did not follow their views were severely punished. especially those associated with the political left. In this harsh atmosphere many led clandestine lives while trying to mobilize forces for change.

The film, based in the book Lamarca, Capita() do Guerrilha by Emiliano Jose and Oldack Miranda, has created a storm of controversy in Brazil since its release. Some politicians have started a campaign to ban it. After all, the forces that Lamarca was fighting are still very much alive in Brazil.

In a recent TV program called Tribunal do Lamarca was absolved by 4 votes to 36

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The 'end us the tired the huddle masses" inscription at he Statue of Liberty certainly doesnl,apply to the Brazilians coming ashore in New York City.

A new book shows who these immigrants are.

iAxiNE L.

MARGOLIS

Go-go dancing is to women what shoe shining is to mew :Seasoned anthropologist-writer Maxine L. Margolis's Polo Often* like shoe shining, is seen as a quintessentially " .Little Brazil is a freshly objective and very enlightening Brazilian job, as one the Brazilian community in New York look into the ethnographic cross-section ofBrazit's Muniand theii.Coinpatrioti back home associate with Brazilian ' giant population in New York City, the world's melting immigrant yvtiMeti, But that is where the similarity between •pot. Uncovering a portrait that"defies many of the stereothe two jot*, ends. While Brazilian men were no more types that Ainericans tend to have about immigrants in self conscious talking _about shining shoes than about busgeneral, and South American in particular, Margolis reing tables or doing other menial jObt:. Brazilian women who s fr Veals how this new wave. of receM arf va s Were go-go dancers Were very reltictant to discuss their Aninfigrants of the past. work, In tact it . was much easier to find out about the various less: than 'licit ploys involving the acquisition and "These are not people running from Jett poverty or . use of tourist visas and green cards than to learn The most political repression, nor are they virtual 7 Or. f1.01Cti011iff7. basic fads: Atha: go-go dancers and go-go dancing as a illiterates either. In facts a substantial .percentage holds profession. , ; technical, college or university degrees, or has Vocational The cliffiOnIty that I had interviewing these women is trades or business experience. Most are just trying to run strong evidence that most of them do „not {•...divay - temporarily or permanently - from ::think of go-go dancing as "just another job."

Brazil's horrendous inflation and economic Little Brazil, an Ethnography of lAgain and again during my research, I met ' ehacis, Brazilians who said they had friends who Brazilian Immigrants in New York three hundred and plus page book *were pip dancers NOio would be "delighted" by Maxine L. Margolis City, 1 is well executed. With twelve chapters, ao talk tome about their work and who would (Princeton Ilniversity Press, 329 f supplemented by photographs, maps, tables be "more than happy" to recount their expet • • PR, Paperback) t and even a mini-glossary of Brazilian Por*knees in :it But When it came time to set up tuguese terms, this is a must-read hook for i.an interview or do a questionnaire; their •anyone and everyone interested in Brazilt'go4o-dancing friends flatly refused to Coqiins, their culture and lifestyles. crate. One nn for etcample, told me that his Brazilian The book also contains "mini-stories" within the main. • reanimate **Iced as as go-go dancer and that he Was sure chariters,'which add insight and understanding in a more that she Writild tell me about her job. But when I called him t 'intimate manner, about what moves and motivates many a a few days later, he sheepishly admitted that his roommate /3?.u.siteino immigrant Little Brazil is definitely a book had toll him in no uncertain terms that she had no intention With:a sent It is not just cold, hard statistics, but rather a of being interviewed about go-go dancing by me or anyone z, • t tapestry of delightful sometimes somber slices of life. -else.

On one occasion; after refusing to discuss her job'in t from a Brazilian standpoint -- and an eloquent account of person, a Brazilian gO4o dancer reluctantly agreed, to I.: hew ft desire to prosper and succeed clashes with the phone interview with My Brazilian =research assistant But saudacte of wishing to be home in Brazil', if things were. even over the4hone, she was less than forthcoming; she FaitriPly not as complicated as they are, • Dula net saywhich bars she has worked at or evert how .1,11e offer-here- short excerpts. a Little Brazil, just lori long she had been a dancer? Another interviewee Was even enough to whet you appetite. more prickly In conversation she let it :drop that she Was 38

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once a dancaritia - Portuguese for go-go dancer — and then she czitialit herself and denied she ever said she had . such a job. She claimed that she had been "misunderstood'': • and that shc actwilly had worked as....barmaid. But she agreed to talk shout go-go dancing as long as the questions .were po.ed in the third person How MUCIt'did her friends , ,...earn as go-p,o d incci What v,,-ere their working hoursl did they feel about their jobs? At times she became rattled and said "I- instead of "they" when replying, but ilickly recovered and went back to the pretense that go-go tieing Was sometithig only other women did.

BATTLEDRESS OF A GO-GO A Brazilian described go-go dancers as having -string bikinis full of dollar bills.- Some go-gos use stage names when they dance in order to maintain their anonymity. One told me these sobriquets are their "noms de guerre." razilian go-go dancers are reticent about their wor "th an inquisitive anthropologist, they are even more'. secretive about it withtheir ltrinilles in Brazil They tell their Iiiends and relatives back home that they are ern'played as baby sitters as lion. keepers, or as waitresses.

One woman-from an tippet -m se . dd e- c l ass family in no th eastern filaZil told her parents that her considerable income: r .:acialictileasfirott,tilb\N CI , lag long hours"at two jobs- as a b y -sitter Informants said that since manayrte gon-dgeol.. are nom Moms Gerais' — a state former Vice. „I'resident I)rin Quayle would appreciate, one famed for it . "traditional, conservative fainily values — it was especially incumbent on them to lie to their families about the kind of work they do in New York.

Sonic women who work as go-gas even hide that fact 'rom their 11ra/than friends in the city. One woman told m bout a friend others ‘‘, Ito purportedly worked as a baby-sitter .. The 'friend lived very well indeed, buy mg expensive clothe tand furniture. 'Ibis woman became convinced that .• 'friend had another source of income since she could no .possiltIN earn enough nioney as a babv-sitter to support he 'to . patent tastes. 1\ hen the two became roommates, the woman hsd turtner prrmt of what she had long suspected. He 'friend it turned out, went out most nights, only to return in the wee hours of the morning, she refused to say where she: had been saying only that site -liked to get out of the house and get some fiesh air."

'To be sure. not all Brazilian go-go dancers are ashamed to talk .11->olit what thLy do, and some twist that they see it as Just ajob," One go-go had noaI )oloa-ies for lier work. dance," she said with a defiant air. "I don' t tlike cleaning people's housLs, and I have no intentirm of quitting becauset. can tooL' the best ney. dancing.- Another explained that when she dances, she tries to distance herself from what' she. is doing: -You get there, do orter(ri wposr),kc,heoritorngyieoaunrymciney and don t becoine ins° 1, Bu t brmcr go-go conceded that despite the excellent rTyligas a go-go - j'list . not worth it." .ere.i4 no Was of knov, in,. hoWitiany Brazilian wome are ernplOyed as go-go dancers in bars and nightclubs i New York, One Brazilian who was a pioneer go-go dancer . the mid-1970s, estimated that there are now be000 and 3,000 go-go dancers throughout the Greater t\'\e 'en NewY i k metropolitan area — including Long Island, Westchester l County. and New Jersey -- and that about 80 percent of' them are Brazilians. Some bars, she noted, even advertise that they feature Brazilian girls in our sanit)a In fact, the 80 percent figure was cited over and Over again by Brrizilians with some knowledge or It.h NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

Three or four talent agencies book go-go dancers for bars and nightclubs in the metropolitan area. One lists some 200 Brazilians among its stable of dancers, and another, whose manager was born in Rio de Janeiro, lists I. 100 dancers, most of them Biazilians Many other dancers operate independently and contract With bars on theifOwn, One go-go dancer who lives bi Queens said that she personally knows at least forty Brazilian women in the profession in New York. and that there are even more in Newark, Elizabeth, and other towns in New Jersey because . of the many go-go bars in that area. A news article (from Folha de SZIO Paulo) about Brazilian immigrants in Newark even suggests that the onb, . .jobs available to Brazilian women there are as domestic servants, go-go, dancers, arid.... barmaids.

How did Brazilian women conic to corner the market on go-go dancing in the Ness York area? Just as with shoe shining, there seems to bas e been an early connection to the town of Goveniador Valadares. One fir/ociarettse, a longtime New York resident, said that the first women to ernigratalrom Valadares in the late 1960s and early 1970s' worked as domestic SerViillis in New York. In those days, maids were paid $70 or $75 a week for very long hours. At nie point, one or more of these WOMea discovered that they could work as go-go dancers and make $45 or $50 a night in wages and tips. Vvoud of these earnings presumably filtered back to Brazil. and others followed. The Metropole, go-go bar near Times Square, is said to have employed 'Many of these pioneer dancers, a fact confirmed by a woman front Minas Gerais who, along with her sister, began dancing there in I976.

THE MAKING OF A GO-GO. This account was provided by CIalissa, a young woman rom Brasilia, who worked as a go-go dancer for nearly two years in Queens, Manhattan, Westchester, and New Jersey, At the time of the interie, vvshe had just quit dancing and, O had lken a _job in a•shop Brazilian products. ..• When site first :came to this couri,try, :hrloas d go-go dancer through ei,kmg agency in Tunes qut-ire. She bought counterfeit .soLial....secu,rity_card and told the agency that the paper s for licri gt-,e,LriiiisLasrudffiAcreedre: being "processed by .her lawyer in Hui id a. sufficed, and she was directed to proceed to the -interview."

When potential go-go dancers first go to an agency, they are told to strip down to their panties so that the booking agent can see if their bodies are -good enough" for go-go dancing. Most women are accepted, Clarissa says, since some bgrs, particularly those with a I lispanic eliende, will hire plump women Clarissa went to the agenc.‘ once a week to get her bookings She danced in a different bar every night, going from Queens to New Jersey and hack again Some bars are 'classier" than others in terms of atmosphere, clientele, type of show, and size of tips. And the better the bat,, the "fussier" it is about the dancers' appearance.

Clarissa says she is happy that she stopped dancIiu "people locket you differently when you dance" though at he . „'- current job she makes far less money and works longer hours. Ilia she avers, she will not go back to dancing unless she becomes -desperate for money.r..;.(44 THE IDEOLOGY OF DISUNITY Brazilians often talk about the absence of an esprit de corps in their conimimitrand . compare themselves unfavorably in this regard to New York's other new immigrant groups. All the Brazilians present at a gathering in Queens insisted that they alone among ethnic groups in the city lack a sense of community Lamented one, "We have no club, 110t.school,.no union, no support .from other Brazil-.

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ians." "Everyone in New York has a conimunity association except us," said another. Over and over I was told that there are no Brazilian ethnic, social, or professional groups, no Brazilian occupational specialties akin to those of Korean greengrocers and Indian newsstand dealers — oplv commercial enterprises, such as those on West 46th Street. "We are 80,000 strong," complained my research assistant, a Brazilian with a degree in anthropology, "and we don't have a single social club, not even one."

One Brazilian old-timer in New York told me of his unsuccessful attempt to get support from a Brazilian business association to start a club for Brazilian immigrants th the city.

This group, comprising long-resident entrepreneurs, many with businesses on West 46th Street, directs its charitable efforts exclusively to the needy in Brazil. Thus, on another occasion, despite pleas for help to this group on behalf of a Brazilian immigrant who needed $1,000 to bury her husband. who had died suddenly of a heart attack, none was forthcoming; the money was eventually raised•by members of the Brazilian Catholic congregation in Manhattan.

Brazilians in New York also lack a physical community, a distinctly Brazilian neighborhood or shopping district with which they can identify .

Even the single block of Little Brazil in Manhattan is not entirely their own — there are Japanese, Argentine.

Korean, and Italian restaurants along it, as well as businesses of no distinct nationality. And in Astoria, Queens, the primary Brazilian residential area in the city, almost no outward signs of Brazilians' presence exist. A fev, scattered stores selling Brazilian products, a bar, and a handful of other Brazilian-owned businesses are overwhelmed by the strong Greek flavor of the neighborhood.

Moreover, because the Brazilian business sector is so circumscribed. newly arrived immigrants from Brazil, in. contrast to their Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Korean, and Greek counterparts, haile no ready source of jobs within their own community.

They have no economic basis of ethnic solidarity. Quite the contrary, said one informant, the few Brazilians who do own businesses "not only don't help new immigrants, they exploit them by paying them less and working them longer hours." Nor do established Brazilian enterprises, such as the New York branches of major Brazilian banks, airlines, and other companies do very much to support the handful of community-based groups that do exist in the city. After a year 40

Glossary's sample biziddo - (slang) busy

boatn •• nightclub bruzuca - a Brazilian immigrant in the United States buraco - a card game cacha0 - Brazilian distilled cane alcohol caipirinha - a potent drink made of Brazilian canealcohol, sugar, and limes churrasco a rodizio - a Brazilian barbecue in which waiters pass from table to table with large skewers of grilled meats cucas - short for cucarachas, Spanish for "roadies"; a pejorative term for Hispanics dancarina - go-go dancer dar um jeito 7 to cut through red tape, to achieve an end through minor chicanery decoracdo de lixo - "garbage decor" despachante - literally, "dispatcher"; an expediter who cuts through red tape to get a document or reach another desired end dicha: - dishwasher dula - dollar engrroxate - shoe shiner farinha .

- manioc flour, a Brazilian staple farofa toasted manioc flour fazer America - to migrate to the United States jeijoada -- the Brazilian national dish, consisting of assorted meats cooked in black beans and various accompaniments fixing° a passarinho - literally, "chicken in the style of a little bird"; small pieces of chicken fried in garlic finnaca - literally, "smoke"; a perfunctory shoe shine given to poor tippers Gal Costa - name of a popular singer; Brazilian slang for a green card guarand - a Brazilian soft drink hispano - Hispanic morar dentro - to live in as a household servant orelhinhas - literally, "little ears"; earmuffs pastel - a Brazilian fast food consisting of savory 'pastries filled with meat, shrimp, or olives pastelaria - a Brazilian-style fast food restaurant that specializes in pasteis pond° - rooming house, boarding house pistokio - literally, "big gun," an influential backer, usually a relative or friend poder executivo - literally, "executive power"; monetary clout puleiro - literally, -chicken coop"; crowded living quarters that house new immigrants salgadinhos - Brazilian savory snacks saudades - homesickness, longing for something Silvio Santos - name of a Brazilian television personality; Brazilian slang for a social security card urn social - a social security card tanga - a Brazilian string (thong) bikini 7'ia Mimi - literally, "Aunt Mimi"; Brazilian slang for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) um, dois, fres - literally, "one, two, three-; a perfunctory shoe shine given to customers who tip poorly verdinhas - literally, "little green ones"; dollars

of vigorous fund-raising, the founder of a small Brazilian cultural center on Manhattan's Lower East Side managed to come up with only $2,000 to • help fund the center's activities.

Yet another example of the absence of community involvement is the lack of .support for this cultural center's classes in such traditional Brazilian specialties as capoeira, the martial arts dance, and batucada, Brazilian percussion music. These classes, and similar ones that are given privately, have attracted only a handful of the thousands of Brazilians residing in New York City. For example, of the dozens of students in the capoeira classes that have been taught in New York since the mid-1970s, only about five of those now enrolled are Brazilian. Ninety percent of those who signed up for a samba school are not Brazilian, and Brazilians accounted for only 10 percent of the batucada players who participated in the Carnaval street parade. These groups, it would seem, primarily serve American aficionados of Brazilian music and culture, rather than Brazilians involved in their own heritage.

The story is similar for "TV Brasil," a weekly half-hour program of Brazilian news, sports, and music.

Started in 1988, the program was aimed at New York's Braziliin community. At first, interest in the show was quite high, and Brazilian businesses advertised on it. But, said the program's producer, since most Brazilians are in New York only to save money for the return to Brazil, advertisers began to feel that their ads were not attracting new customers; after a few months, they stopped bu9ing airtime. Also, unlike the Hispanic market, the Brazilian market is not large enough to interest national advertisers. "TV Brasil"s producer tried to get Coors Beer to buy ads on the program by exaggerating the size of the Brazilian market in New York; she claimed it was 200,000. Even then, Coors turned her down, saying that the market was too small.

After about two years "TV Brasil" 's producer despaired of ever getting sufficient support from the Brazilian community. Consequently, she eliminated its Brazilian news and sports components and changed the format to an all-music and video program called "Sounds Brazilian." Now, when she gets calls from Brazilians complaining that they miss the news about Brazil, she tells them testily, "The show's not for you anymore because when it was, you didn't support it."

Indeed, the audience for the new show is largely people who like Brazilian music, rather than Brazilians themselves.

NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

After a short career, singer-composer Marisa Monte seems ready for the prime time of the inter ationa r.= -.The third and latest of her at. imr 1i f tbeen ir . released siniultaneo EiSr In r,rJrr 11. ,1E1=FPE'.'

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Afiorue i coruir g't04 WWII near You, Who 3m1' might ar...r? Tf yoI r:i Jan, and in touch with your . y011 ;Iirr-Ady knowi the. 1;mr-..ii °Wig ( arioca, MOM Rio) sylie muirin-imiJod iici- vciy onto Firazilian nittiic,Seene six ysears aga Challengtlie ICE who Laroonicri them w;is noiiew talent emerging in their half If you're, Gern a Dutch or Japanese there's a great ii krimv And likc hes music for she is an emerging star in their chance resp.ective nee s o tiewoods. If you're from the United States how ever. you ve probably never heard Monte's music. You will soon.

Her new album. Rose and Charcoal. released in the US on October 18 •s her best yet. Beautiful and sophisticated. the new disc updates Brazilial music without sacrificing any of its rich traditions. The new album, which' s already sold over 100,000 copies in Brazil. seems to have the potential to make a big splash over here as well.

Not since the mid-'60's Bossa Nova invasion has Brazilian music held strong market in this country. This is especially true for female artists. F a most, Elis Regina embodied the ultimate singer Brazil had ever seen and ar many considered her a prime candidate to make it big in the US. That success never came and with her tragic death in 1980. Gal Costa became the lst popular Brazilian female voice. She, too, has had no success breaking through. Now comes a new voice, at times as sweet and tender as a gentle breeze yet at other times as powerful as a "Maria Fumaca" (steam train)* Monte is obviously preparing herself for a broader based international market. She toured Europe and Japan in September and October and wll begin her US tour in Minneapolis in mid-November. She is scheduled to be in Los Angeles on November 25. Marisa is already' preparing, however, a longer, more extensive tour for next spring.

At the age of 14. Monte began to study music. By the time she turned 18, she was n Rome observing the technical intricacies of lyrical singing.After a short time, however, she realized that her calling in life would not be to sing opera. "I was studying bet canto," she told Billboard magazine. -but people kept telling me to sing Brazilian music in the night clubs. and I thought.

'These people grew up listening to the opera. I'll never sing like to their liking: I have to search for my own roots. — NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

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Na Estrada (Marisa Monte, Nand° Reis, Carlinhos Brown) Ha vai voltar, vai chegar E se demorar, I'll wait for YOU Ela vein, e ninguem mais bela Ruby, I \N anna be yours tonight Sem botao, no tempo, no topo, no chat) em cada escada. a caminhada a pe, de caminhao St:El horario nunca e cedo aonde estou c quando escondo a militia olheira pra collier amor Sala sem cla tern janela inclina em cerca de atencao ha vein, c ninguem mais ela vem cm manila direcao Sala sem ela tern lunch' inclina em ccrca de atencito Ha vem. e ninguem mais lx:la vein em minha direcao

De Mais Ninguem (Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes) Sc ela me deixou, a dor C minha so, nao e de mais ninguem.

Aos outros cu devolvo a do.

En tenho a militia dor.

Sc ela preferiu ficar sozinha oil la tern um outro bem Sc cla me deixou a dor dor e de quern tem.

E met' trofeu, e 0 que restou, C o que me aquece sem inc dar calor.

Sc en nao tenho 0 men amor cu tenho a militia dor.

A sala, o quarto, a casa esta vazia, a cozinha, o corrector.

Sc nos mucus bracos eta nab se aninha, a dor e o ineu iencoi, e 0 cobertor.

E o quc Inc aquece sem me dar calor.

Sc cu nit° tenho o meu amor en tenho a minha dor.

0 Ceu (Nand() Rei, Marisa Montes) o ceu vai tao longe esti perto O CCU fica cm cima do tcto o Celt tern as quatro estacdes cscurece de noite, amanhece coin o sol o ceu serve a todos o ceu ninguem pode pegar o ceu cobre a terra e a lua entra dentro do quarto, rua do a v iao Dentro do universo mora o ceu o ceu ptira-quedas e saltos o ceu vai do chao para o alto o ceu sem comeo nem lira para sempre serei seu fa Olhai pro ceu, olhai pro chao

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A few years later she began to tour Brazil and built a following based on her live shows By word of mouth, news of this hot new singer spreadOickly from Rio to Sao Paulo. In 1988 EMI-Odeon released the live MAI to capitalize on this momentum.

The debut, although a bit scattershot, reflected her broad musical tastes which included jazz standards, soul, '30 sambas, blues as well as MPB (Popular Brazilian Music). Monte was only 22 at the time of its release but she immediately became a star. Her reputation was based on her ability to fuse a modern mix of sounds with Brazilian rhythms. "Marisa began to bridge an ever widening gap between two generations — young people who were listening to pop music and an older generation who bemoaned the loss of Brazilian music," said Nelson altta, producer of her first album. At the same time:she was looked at very seriously as someone who could progress the Brazilian musical tradition to new ground.

Her 1991 follow-up, Mais, may have done just that. Produced by Arto Lindsay, who was born in Pernambuco, and recorded in both Rio and New York. it continued to cross-pollinate musical styles while incorporating a strong New York component.

Besides becoming a common reference point between contrasting cultures, it also showcased Monte's song writing abilities on five of the 12 tracks. ..k.kris sold over 400,000 copies in Brazil and 100,000 overseas. To promote the album, she toured Japan. South America and Europe, where she sold out most of her shows.

Her third album Rose and Charcoal, also produced by Lindsay, features an interesting array of guest artists including Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass, Gilberto Gil and Carlinhos Brown. Even more so than its predecessors, the new album seems to bare the soul of the artist. "Now I know better 'what 1 want.., so I think the record looks more like " she said.

Although this latest confection shares the same usical range and lyrical richness as Alois and MAI it makes unprecedented jaunts into musical territory ranging from nostalgic. Afro-Brazilian choro and samba grooves to Lou Reed's Velvet Underground-era "Pale Blue Eyes." -This album continues the process we started on Alois, but it's a much more historic record." said Lindsay. "True to Brazilian styles but at the same time we didn't hesitate to mix and match other forms."

Although the name of the US release isRose and Charcoal, its full title in Portuguese, Verde Anil Antarelo ('or de Rosa e Carviio, translates to Green, Dark Blue, Yellow, Rose and Charcoal, a reference to the Brazilian flag (which is green, dark blue and yellow). Green representing the rain forests, dark blue the sky and yellow the gold. Monte suggests that rose and charcoal be added to the flag to truly represent the Brazilian people with rose signifying cheerfulness and charcoal standing for tragedy.

Monte, 27. doesn't like to describe her music as "eclectic" and she thoroughly rejects the idea that she is replacing the old guard with a new sound.

"My new' work strikes a blow against those who try to categorize and compartmentalize my music into a genre. nationality or region," she said. "It's not about the new replacing the old, rather the merging of many ages together into a compatible whole." •

On the Road She is coining back, she will arrive And she will stay, I'll wait for you She is coming, and nobody's prettier Baby, I win= be your tonight Without button, on time, on top, on the floor on each stains ay, x‘alking by toot, by tnick tier time is never early where I am and when I hide the shadow under my eyes it is for reaping love Room without her has a window it leans asking for attention She comes, and no one else she collies towards me Room without her has a window it leans asking for attention She conies, arid no one else prettier comes towards me

Nobody else's If she left me, the pain is only mine, it's nobody else's.

I return the pity to others.

I have my own pain.

If she'd rather be alone, or already has another love.

It' she left me the pain is mine, the pain belongs to whoever has it. .

It's my trophy, it's what's left, it's what warms me up without making me hot.

If I don't have my love, I have my pain.

The living room, the bedroom, the house is empty„ the kitchen, the corridor.

If she doesn't snuggle up in my arms The pain is mine.

It's my sheet, it's my blanket, it's what warms me up without making me hot.

If I don't have my love, I have my pain.

The Sky The sky goes so far it's close the sky is over the roof the sky has all the four seasons it darkens at night, it rises with the sun The sky serves every one the sky no one can seize the sky covers the earth and the moon goes inside the bedroom, airplane's street Inside the universe, the sky lives The para-chute-and-jumps sky the sky goes from the ground to the top the sky without beginning or end for ever I'll be y'our fan Look at the sky, look at the ground NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

UMguayan harpist Roberto Pereaffair with Brazilian music ra's resurfaced once again, with the release ease of his rew Heads Up album, Sed f huction. Ridiag high on the success o is last release Dreams & Desires which won 13ilibcard's coveted prize athse Contemporary p "—atilt Jazz Album of trueYear, ere:a builds on his tried and platform -)f Latin pop and soothing instrumentals Seduction begins with a samba, "Take You There:" allowing the full resonance of Ms instrument. the Paraguayan Folk Ha -p to make its presence felt. The gentle bossa moves through several delightful zhanges, finally settling once again on its smooth samba rhythm, with guest musician Paquito D' Rivera's clEt net flowing along with the melody. rio„Others, D,Ri a , shewcz such as the bolero. ses a more s ubducelidwith his alto sax, and several c, • rossover titles portray a decidedly passion. Pefera's- confidence as leader er allow 1- * ;.he luxury f h• of letting 41:11 o the fall mussis face with etglShip-- preissegnrcoeupThat, Tstir plus his aolyt_lf..i3Oitivert arranging' Skill and a -sing' ri tmderstand iff, ing °fit' d winnen makes each trackr3'a 'Cult' Indcc_d>, - is Instrument Cc'll'ear Stev e WoAder's Am Singing'

provides a special highlight, and underlines Roberto Perera's growing desire to unite all of his America's; North, Central and South, with his own musical direction. The song opens with Perera's harp providing the melody slips easily into it lyrical message, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Rarely has any artist attempted anything so hemispheric with such grace and joy .

His compositions, "Romance dc Medianoche,""Spanish Dancer" and -Cromatina" all feature his flowing technique and mastery of improvisation. And throughout his career, his challenge has been to elevate a simple folk instrument to an international status.

His first album Passions, Illusions & Fantasies scored a Gold record for sales in Latin America, where he is regularly featured on Telemundo and Univision. Seduction is recorded well, too, and Roberto Perera's harp has never sounded better. You can receive a free Heads Up Sampler CD by sending $3.50 for shipping and handling to.

Heads Up International, Ltd., P.O. Box 976 Lynwood, WA 98046.

Ilerbie Mann's flute has been a mainstay in the ever changing world of contemporary jazz for more than three decades. He toured Brazil in 1961, after he had his first taste of Bossa Nova a few years earlier. The forthright flutist_ wasn't shy. He told his manager "I hear the music is great down there. I'll do it for nothing, but I have to go."

Herbie went, and happily, jazz fans still haven't heard the end of it.

Over the years, Mann has embraced many musical styles from R&B to

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In 1987, Mann formed a Brazilian jazz "supergroup" Jasil Brazz and two albums were recorded. The second of these. Opalescence, is now available from Mann's own Kokopell i label, and as is the case with all of his Brazilian efforts, it's well worth the wait.

Mann's flute playing is perfect for Brazilian jazz. His sense of melody and simple improvisation, and the breathy tone of his play' allows for that certain magic. Witness his carefully constructed soloing on "Two Rivers" (an Ivan Lins song) one of the most moving improvisations I've heard in quite a while, and very rehinniscent of • --4,• Stan Getz.

Opalescence features a solid core of musical talent, enough to set this album apart from lesser offerings.

Ricardo Silveira's guitar is prominent throughout the recording, as is fellow string inasterRornero Lubarribo. at the very beginning of his career as a top sideman for U.S. recordings.

Mann explores the fullness of contemporary Brazilian music, taking pages from Ivan Lins, Gilberto Gil, Marcos Silva and Ricardo Silveira.

There's only one Bossa on Opalescence: "Sir Charles Duke." penned by the Mann himself. Look for other Brazilian releases from his label, and perhaps a new roster of Brazilian musicians as next year unfolds.

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IVIarajO Island, in Para state, '.1.1abeen home for millenary. civilizations. Today- --there are thousands of .buffaloes on the loose .:1.:m.he..are.a. And get off the way. Here they are 0:::1(Ing's of the road: .11dialV

Ilha dc Mara* one of the largest fluvial islands in the world. lies at the mouths of the Amazon and Tocantins rivers. The island's 250.000 inhabitants live in 13 municipalities and in the many Pzendas spread across the island.

Although it's fairly straightforward for independent tray elers to visit the island, many travel agencies in Belem offer packaged tours to the main town of Sourc and remote lazendas.

Researchers have discovered that the island was inhabited between 1000 BC and 1300 AD by successive Indian civilizations.

The first of these, known as the Ananatuba civilization, was followed by those of the Manguciras, the Formiga Marajoara and finally . the Aria The ceramics produced by these civilizations were ornamented w ith intricate designs in black. red and white. The best examples of these ceramics are displa cd at the Muscu Emilio Goeldi in Belem.

The resemblance of these designs to those found in Andean civilizations prompted the theory amongst some researchers that the inhabitants of Ilha de Marajo had originally floated down the Ama44

zon from the Andes. In 1991, a team of international archaeologists reported the discovery of pottery fragments near Santarem which were estimated to be between 7000 and 8000 years old. As these fragments predate what was previously considered the oldest pottery in the Americas. it now seems quite possible that Amazonia may have been home to pottery-age cultures which were indigenous, and not introduced from other regions.

Ilha dc Mara* slightly larger in size than Switzerland. has close to 50,000 sq. km of land which divides into two geographical regions of almost equal magnitude. The eastern half of the island is called the regielo dos campos, an area characterized by low-lying field with Savannahtype flora, and sectioned by strips of remaining forest. Various palm trees and dense mangrove forests line the coast. The island's western half, the regiclo da mata, is primarily forest.

Marajo has two seasons: the very rainy, form January to June; and the dry (less rainy!), form July to December. During the rainy season much of the island turns into swamp and the regiclo dos campos becomes completely submerged under a meter or more of water. The island's few

roads are elevated by three meters. but they are often impassable during the rainy season nonetheless.

The herds of buffalo which wander the fields provide Marajo's sustenance. They are well adapted to the swanipy terrain.

There are many snakes, most notably large boas. The island is filled with birds, especially during the dry season. including the guara. a graceful flamingo. with a long, curved beak. The sight of a flock of deep pink guaras flying against Marajo's green backdrop is truly spectacular.

Sourc (pronounced 'sorry'). the island's principal town, is on the Rio Paracauari. a few km from the Baia de Maraj6. The tide along the city's shores oscillates a remarkable three meters. With regular boat services from Belem and easy access to several of the best beaches and jazeudas, it's probably the best place to go on the island.

Like all the island's coastal towns. Soure is primarily a fishing village, but it's also the commercial center for the island's buffalo business and buffaloes rule the place like kings. The tow nsfolk NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

work around the buffaloes, or (crab) and casquinha de caranguejo sometimes with or on them, but (stuffed crab) but lousy shrimp. When never obstruct their passage: right you're facing the sea, the best beach of way in town belongs indisputsection lies on your right. Do not ably to the buffaloes! swim in the shallow lagoon between There are bichos de pe. (unthe barracas and the sea: it harbours pleasant bugs that burrow into prickly plants. human feet) in and around the As you head upriver, about a towns, in addition 10-minute walk from to many other town, there is an old, nasty parasites. simple tannery which Ma raj 6 Buffalo Keep your head sells sandals, belts etc, on your shoulders made from buffalo and Legend has it that a and shoes on your boa.

When I visited, the French ship was sailing to feet. tanning of ajacare skin French Guyana with a load The bay beawas in progress -- illeof buffalo picked up in Inches near Soure gal but quite common. dia, but never made it. The are excellent and The stuff on sale isn't boat sank off the shore of look more like very good (don't buy Ilha de MarajO and the bufocean beaches. products made from enfalo swam to shore. The Praia Araruna, the dangered species such rest is history. most beautiful as jacare or tartaruga) Today. Marajo is the beach, is also the but it's illuminating to only place in Brazil where closest, just a see the way it's made. the buffalo roam in great 10-minute taxi On the second Sunnumbers, and there are drive from town. day ofNovember, Soure thousands of them. These Ask the driver to has its own Cirio de arc not the furry American pick you up at a Nazar& There's a beaubison that Buffalo Bill and set hour.. .and pay tiful procession and the other rough-riders slaughthen. You can also town bursts with comtered on the American walk the five km munal spirit. Everyone plains, but a tough-skinned to the beach; ask in the region comes to hairless buffalo that looks for directions in town, so accommodalike a macho Indian Brahma town. At the end tion can be difficult to bull. of the road, folfind.

The festival of Sao There are four different low two pedesPedro on 29 June is a uses for buffalo on Maraj6: trian bridges very colorful celebrameat, dairy products. tracacross the lagoons tion, and includes a tion, and breeding. Buffalo to the beach. The maritime procession. If are better suited than cattle bay here, 30 km you're into buffalo culto Maraj6's environment from the ocean, ture there's an Agrobecause of three qualities. has both fresh and Pecuaria fair during the During the wet season, salt water: at low third week of Septemwhen much of the land turns tide you can walk ber. into swamps or lagoons, about five km in Places to Stay - Albuffalo can walk on the soft either direction. though travel agencies ground with their wide The beach is dein Belem are keen to hooves and can swim when serted during the promote their package the water gets deep. Their week and could tours to Ilha de Marajo tough three-layered hide is scarcely be called with prebooked accomable to withstand the bites crowded on weekmodation in Soure, inof the island's many snakes ends. There's ofdependent travel on the and parasites: and they can ten a strong wind: island is really no more eat almost anything, even one Belenense I difficult than anywhere diving underwater to obmet was planning else in the Amazon retain food. a two-month gion. Providing you windsurfing trip have a flexible schedaround the island. Another nearby ule, it's easy to set out on your own. beach is Praia Mata Fome, only The fazendas where the buffalo two km from town. roam are enormous estates which Praia do Pesqueiro is 13 km occupy most of the island's eastern from town (a 25-minute drive). half. They are also beautiful, rustic Ask about buses at Pousada refuges filled with birds and monMarajoara. There are a couple of keys. Most of the fazendas have dorbarracas with great caranguejo mitories with an extra bunk or a NEWS from BRAZIL-NOVEMBER 1994

place to hitch a hammock, but not all welcome outsiders.

Around the Island - It's a short boat trip from Soure across the river to Salvaterra. Shuttle boats go every 15 minutes during the day and cost 20c. Salvaterra has restaurants and an expensive hotel, the Pousada dos Guaras. A 10 minute walk from town, Praia Grande de Salvaterra is a long, pretty beach on the Baia de Mara* The beach is popular on weekends when the barracas open, but often windy. It's a good place to see the beautiful fence corrals which dot Marajo's coastline (the best view is from a small plane).

The corrals are simple fences with netting that use the falling tide to capture fish.

From Salvaterra there is a dirt road that goes to Camara (24 km) and then continues to Cachoeira do Arari (51 km), which is a very pretty, rustic town and reportedly has a pousada. To the north, accessible only by plane, is the town of Santa Cruz do Arari, on the immense Lagoa Arari (lagoon). This town is completely submerged under water during the rainy season, and is famous for its fishing.

The eastern half of the island is less populated and less interesting for travelers There are boat services to the city of Breves which has apousada. Afud, on the northern shore, is built on water and also has a pousada.

Ilha Caviana, an island lying off the north coast of Ilha de Marajo, is an excellent base from which to observe the pororoca (the thunderous collision between the Atlantic tide and the Amazon). The best time to see this phenomenon is between January and April at either full or new moon.

Excerpts from Brazil Travel Survival Kit -

2nd edition.

by Andrew Draffen, Deanna Swaney and Robert Strauss. For more information call Lonely Planet: (800) 2758555. Copyright 1992 Lonely Planet Publications.

Used by permission.

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Plays

Gomez and Nicolaiewsky in Tangos e Tragedies.

Books

best-sellers

in Rio & SP A Comedia dos Erros - An adaptation of Shakespeare

by Caca Rosset. With Cristiane Tricerri and Maria Alice Vergueiro. In Sao Paulo.

A Gaiola das Loucas Translated and adapted from La Cage aux Folles by Joao Bethencourt. In Rio Laura, Alto, Solteiro, Procura - Miguel Falabella, who wrote the text, plays all 17 characters of this comical monologue. In Rio. Nas Raias da Loucura Name inspired by interpreter Claudia Raia. In Sao Paulo.

Lyrics by Silvio de Abreu and directed by a Rodrix.

0 Medico e o Monstro Despite title, is a comedy.

In this Georg Osterman story a physician creates a potion that changes him into a monster. Big hit in Sao Paulo.

Obsessao - Stephen King's text about writer who is taken by a nurse who is an obsessed fan. In Rio. Porca Miseria - Four Italian brothers struggle to survive in Sao Paulo. Director: Gianni Ratto. In Sao Paulo Querida Matilde - Maria Adelaide Amaral play about a very touchy motherdaughter relationship. In Rio. As Regras do Jogo - Noel Coward play about old movie star rekindling past love. With Gloria Menezes, directed by Dorival Carper.

In Rio. Tangos e Tragedias - Humorists and musicians Hique Gomez and Nico Nicolaiewsky have been packing the Palladium in Sao Paulo for 10 years. Public participates throughout the show.

Trair eCocar E So Conic car A loony maid makes life miserable for her bosses. In Sao Paulo.

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Fiction

American films just released: Bad Girls (Ouatro Mulheres e tun Destino), Passion Fish . (Tudo pela Vida), Escape from Absolom.

(Fuga de Absolom: o Futuro Primitivo), Jason Goes to Hell (Jason Vai para o Inferno), I Love Trouble (Adoro Problemas), King of the Hill (0 Inventor de Ilusoes), It Could Happen to You (Atraidos pelo Destino), The Shadow (The Shadow - 0 Soinbra), The Client (0 Cliente), The Heartbreak Kids (Loucura de uma Paixao) Barrela - Brazil - (1994) By Marco Antonio Cmy. Six long-term prisoners share a same cell and their hell. • 0 Beijo 2348/72 - Brazil (1990) - Directed by Walter Rogerio. Story of bureaucratic kiss. In '72 a couple was fired forjust cause from theirjob because they kissed each other during work.

Exotica (Excitica) - Canada -(1994) - By Atom Egoyan.

Fantasies of the patrons at the Exotica night club.

Huevos de Oro (Ovos de Ouro) -Spain- (1993) -The adventures of a modern nouveau riche and his sexual prowess.

Intruso (Intruso) - Spain (1993) - A marriage shattered by the return of the wife's best friend from adolescence.

1 Perhaps Love (Romantic music) Sony Music Placid° Domingo Domingo sings American classics with John Denver.

2 The 3 Tenor in Concert (Potpourri) Warner Carreras, Plaeido Domingo & Pavarotti Trio Songs at the end of Soccer's World Cup

3 A Viagem (Sound Track) Som Livre Julio Iglesias & others From Globo's soap opera.

4 Voodoo (Rock) EMI-Odeon Rolling Stones

5 Verde Anil Amarelo Cor de Rosa e Carvdo (Brazilian Popular Music) EMI-Odeon Marisa Monte

1. Na Margem do Rio Piedra Eu Sentei e Chorei Paulo Coelho (Rocco) 2. Nada Dura para Sempre Sidney Sheldon (Record) 3. 0 Rei Ledo Disney (Melhoramentos) 4. Comedias c/a Vida Privada -Luis Fernando Verissimo (L&PM) 5. 0 Punho de Deus Frederick Forsyth (Record) 6. Do Amor e Outros Dent 6nios - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Record) 7. Memorial do Con vento Jose Saramago (Bertrand Brasil) 8. 0 Cliente John Grisham (Rocco) 9. 0 Rubino Noah Gordon (Rocco) 10. A Grande Arte Rubem Fonseca (Comp. das Letras)

Nonfiction 1. 0 0/ho Mtigico N. E. Thing (Martin Fontes) 2. Chatô, o Rei do Brasil Fernando Morais (Comp. das Letras) 3. Anjos Cabalisticos Monica Buonfiglio (Berkana) 4. Minutos de Sahedoria Carlos Torres Pastorino (Vozes) 5. 0 Sucesso Ocorre por Acaso Lair Ribeiro (Objetiva) 6. Sebastiana OuebraGalho Neuzinha Machado Salles (Civilizacao Brasileira) 7. Como Nâo Ser Enganado nas Eleicoes Gilberto Dimenstein (Atica) 8. 0 Brasil gue DO Certo Stephen Kanitz (Makron Books) 9. Cidade Partida Zuenir Ventura (Comp. das Letras) 10. Viajando no Tempo Lair Ribeiro (Objetiva)

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BRAZIL ON THE DORA OF DISH ALL Every day. from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM on the East Coast (6:00 to 9:00 on the West) the TRADES Telstar satellite 302 is beaming a Brazilian

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TV program in Portuguese. The presentation, broadcast from Miami. is a mix of news. soap operas. music videos, interviews. variety shows and tourism. Behind this pioneer effort is BTN. the Brazilian Television Nctw ork. BTN's president. Ruy Pontes. has promised an increase in time of programming shortly and talked about his company's main goal: "to be increasingly an integration channel among Portuguese speaking communities."

One of the star programs is the mini-series Tie,, based on Jorge Amado's novel of the same name.

BTN can be seen through Telstar satellite 302, 2H. Channel 4.

For more information call (305) Ruy Pont -s 374-9302.

MOVING CULTURE Oup of Brazilian artists, writers, sicians, filmmakers, and scholars ving in northern California has created the Brazilian Cultural Movement, an organization that is vowing to present, debate and promote Brazilian culture in the United States. As a fist taste of its intentions, the BCM is presenting on November 5, from noon to 8:00 PM, the Brazilian Arts & Crafts Festival a medley of poetry reading, music, dance, literature, fil m, arts, crafts and culinary art. As part of the festival, there will also be the ..*PA-merican premiere of A Saga do (herreiro Alunnoso (The Shining Warrior's Saga) directed by Rosem-

berg Carity. The film is a portrait of Brazil's Northeast culture interspersed w th Cervantes Don Quixote. The Fest will take place in the San Francisco County Fair Building, on 9th Ave. and Lincoln Wa). in San Francisco, California. More information?

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Maybe she can't make it rain, but this would be the only thing this Manhattanbased Brazilian at heart is not able to do for you. Ask Dora Davis for a baby-sitter, a doctor, a good investment. a real estate. a translator. a tour of the city, an impossible phone number or address, and she will get it.

This Carioca from ex-Yugoslavia was raised in Hungary and Israel. but has lived most of her adult life in Rio. Davis. who has a real estate license, worked for the Lloyd Brasileiro company and can find a representative for your company in New York if you might need it. Would you like to put her to the test'? Call (212) 8321515. Or write her at 400 Madison Ave. #304 - New York. NY 10017.

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NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

FEIRA LIVRE OPEN MARKET BOOKS

Music

Livros brasileiros. Compre pelo Correio. Literatura, best-sellers, dicionarios, livros tecnicos. Peca catalogo gratuito. Luso Brazilian Books - P.O. Box 170286NFB - Brooklyn, NY 11217 Info: (718) 624-4000 - Only for orders: (800) 727-LUSO. Know-How - bigles para Brasileiros - Livro pratico de IngresPortugues gravado em tres fitas K7. Pronfincia americana. $40 total. Envie cheque ou money order para: Graham Books - P.O. Box 291453 - Port Orange, FL 32129-1453. Tel: (407) 3510254.

Brazilian Music in its totality.

Samba, bossa nova, ja77, chorinho, lambada, baiao, frevo, axe, and more. CD's and Tapes. Mail delivery available. Merchant Express - (800) 589-5884.

CLASSES

Brazilian Music Therapy Group meetings to listen to, translate, understand and enjoy songs. This is an informal class for Brazilian song lovers not for music professionals. (415) 7719474 Enjoy the pleasures of life: learn to fly helicopter (in English or Portuguese)! Call now! Phone/ Fax: (805) 297-3691 - Pager: (310) 785-7188 Study Portuguese with credentialed instructors. Small groups and individual tutoring. Registration always open. We also offer courses in Rio de Janeiro.

(310) 839-8427 Portuguese classes - Individual & small groups. Relaxed, fun, but very efficient and personalized lessons. I'm a native Brazilian instructor with an university degree in languages, T,ry a free lesson. (415) 771-9474 ENTERTAINMENT

Exotic samba dancers, tradi= tional music and dance of Brazil. For clubs, celebrations, etc.

Video available. (408) 464-2234 JOBS OFFERED

Fast growing telecommunication company looking for an International Sales Coordinator.

Portuguese a must. Competitive salary and bonuses. Call S. Alan Sandler (310) 335-5252 or fax résumé to (310) 335-5255 MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS

Jornais e revistas do Brasil.

Recebemos jomais diarios alem de todas as principals revistas, incluindo masculinas e femininas, alem de gibis, palavras cruzadas e livros de bolso. Tel. & fax: (617) 787-0758

NEWS

Fax Newspaper - A daily threepage summary of the Brazilian press from Agencia Estado. We cover all the main Brazilian papers. Fax your request for a one week free trial to (800) 2378236 or (305) 285-6980.

PERSONAL

American Jewish man, 36, sincere, deep, fun, active, doctor, seeks Jewish lady under 35 with brown eyes and long dark hair, in Los Angeles area. (310) 2713168.

American, 52, has travelled to Brazil, desires correspondence with young, open-minded Brasileira living in the US, to explore .compatibility and romance.

Write: M.F.K., P.O.B. 215, Redmond, WA 98073 Brasileiro, 40 arms, solteiro, residente, curso superior.

Procura corresponder-se corn brasileira, inorena clara ou loira, entre 21 a 30 arms, boa aparencia e tisico, corn sande, para um compromisso seno levando a casamento. Escreva para 660-1 Broadway St. - San Francisco, CA 94133. - Ou chaine (115), 399-0787 (Apreciaria fai) -Teri-Ian& Carioca.

L.A./Ph.D. - Loyal, funny and supportive seeks smart, loyal and young Brazilian lady age 28 to 35 for love and companionship. Write letter with photo to Dr. G. Martin - 1107 Fair Oaks #184 - South Pasadena, CA 91030 or call (213) 223-6100 Open minded and funny guy wants to meet garolinha uninhibited and open-minded, 18-30 for fun, friendship and exchange of thoughts. Write: P. R. c/o Box 42536 - Los Angeles, CA 90050 REAL ESTATE

NATAL, BRAZIL - Let's buy or build our own winter-summer getaway pousada. Looking for partners. Call (813) 774-7458 or write: 6067 Hollow Dr. Naples, FL 33962

NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

FEIRA LIVRE RATES: 500 a word.

DISCOUNTS: For 3 times deduct 5%. for 6 times deduct 10°6, for 12 times deduct 15°0.

POLICY: All ads to be prepaid. Ads are accepted at our discretion. Sorry, no credit card at this time. Your canceled check is your receipt. Please, include address and phone number, which will be kept confidential.

DEADLINE: The 15th of the month. Late material will be held for the following month if appropriate.

TO PLACE AD:.Send ad with check or money order to News from Brazil P.O. Box 42536 Los Angeles, CA 90050-0536.

Quer cornprar imovel no Rio ?

Consulte um corretor experiente, no raino ha muitos altos. Fale corn Americo Borges no Brasil, pelo telefone (0115521) 2472443 or 267-2859.

Vendo apto. no Rio (Botafogo).

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Pao de Acucar. Editicio corn seguranca 24 hs e duas garagens. Falar coin Marisa no Rio: (0115521)253-8583 e253-3871 RENTAL

Alugo quarto cidade Rosemead para brasileira trabalhadora sem vicios. (818) 309-9626 - Evelyn $350 - Tudo incluido ROOMMATE

Procuro "roommate" brasileira. Quarto grande com fone, entrdaJ n depe ri de nte lareira, quintal. West Los Angeles. $400. Aberto 1° de Outubro.

Rachel (310) 287-0905

dos principais hotels. Cats Tours over L.A. - (310) 675-CATS TRANSLATION

Certified translator, fast and reliable. Call Sonia (813) 7747458 Carlos Ravel°, M.A., LLD, State Certified Interpreter. Spanish - Portuguese - English. (213) 549-1119 Accurate, fast, affordable translations from English into Portuguese and vice-versa. Technical and "coloquial. Tocantins. Tel. and Fax: (818) 248-3667 VIDEO

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SOUVENIRS

WORLD CUP

Camisetas. posters, novidades do Brasil pelo correio. Mande 290 em selo para catalogo gratis.

Studio Tee - P.O. Box 1469 Cooper Station, NY 10276

Tetracaritpeao T-Shirt - Very colorful, in the front: Brasil no.

I. Oil the back:. TetracampeAo. $15 includes tax, postage, shipping & handling. Call (310) 4534002 or send your check to Arthead - P.O. Box 42536 - Los Angeles, CA 90050-0536. We also have wholesale prices.

Official soccer ball signed by World Champions team Brazil with Cert. of Authenticity. $850 or better offer. (310) 457-4998.

World Cup posters, T-shirts, mugs, Brazilian flags, pins. Sunset Soccer Supply - 3214 Irving St. - San Francisco, CA 94122 Tel: (4)5) 753-2666 - Get 10% off by mentioning you saw it at News from Brazil magazine.

TOURS

See L.A. from the birds' eyes.

Helicopter tours let you see in detail each attraction of the big city. Any day. Any time. Don't waste more time. Call now (805) 297-3691-Pager (310)685-7188 Sobrevoe Beverly Hills, as casas das estrelas, Hollywood, o centro de Los Angeles, Rose Bowl, Malibu, Venice, praias famosas, alein do Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, etc. Tours de dia, de noite ou ao p8r do sol. Transporte gratis

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TV & RADIO

BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de Ipanema at Tatou

THURSDAY 3 BERKELEY

BOSTON Coragao Brasileiro - Every Sunday, 12:00 noon with Dennis Miller - 88.1 FM WMBR

CHICAGO The Sounds of Brazil - Every Saturday, 10:00 PM , 95.5 FM, WNUA with Scott Adams

LOS ANGELES RADIO Sounds of Brazil - Every Thursday, 9:30 am- 11 am, KPFK, 90.7 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Hour -Every Saturday and Sunday, 9.00 am - 10 am, KXLU, 88.9 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko

Views of Brazil - Sundays 9 pm - Continental Cable Ch 28 Fridays 2pm - Century Cable - Channel 3 Mondays 8 pm - United Artists Cable - Channel 25.

MIAMI RADIO Brazilians Love Jazz -Every Sunday, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm with Gina Martelli- 93 9 - Love 94

TV BTN (Brazilian TV Network) - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am, DCI ch. 40, S South ch. 51, Adelphia ch. 52, Gold Coast ch. 99 Luqui Corporation -Jornal Bandeirantes - 11:00 pm 1:00 am, Dynamic ch. 20, S South ch. 41, Gold Coast ch. 44, DCI ch. 45

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8:00 PM-Carlos Henriqueat Nino's

LOS ANGELES 9:00 PM - Constellation Band at Zabumba

PASADENA CA 8:00 PM -Sergio and Odair Assad, duo guitarists at Ambassador's (800) CONCERT

SANTA MONICA 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM - Katia Moraes & The Rio Thing at 14 Below

SATURDAY 5 BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de Ipanema at Tatou

Wild Mango in San Francisco

NEW YORK

LOS OLIVOS CA

8:00 PM & 11.00 PM - Astrud Gilberto at S 0 B 's - (212) 243-4940

8:00 PM - Mica at Side-Street Café - (805) 688-8455

THURSDAY 10

NEW YORK 11:00 PM & 1:00 AM - Brazilian Energy at S 0.B 's - (212) 2434940

SAN FRANCISCO

8:00 PM - Carlos Hen rique at Nino s

LOS ANGELES 9:00 PM Zabumba

Constellation Band at

12:00 NOON - 22:00 PM - Brazilian Arts & Crafts Festival '94 at Golden Gate Park - (415)750-1282

SUNDAY 6 SAN FRANCISCO 7:00 PM - San Francisco Jazz Festival's Brazil on the Bay with Terra Sul, Claudia Villela, Wild Mango at California Hornblower, Pier 33 - (415) 864-5449

TUESDAY 8 NEW YORK 8:00 PM & 11:00 PM - Astrud Gilberto at S.O.B.'s - (212) 2434940

WEDNESDAY 9 BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de Ipanema at Tatou

14 Below - 1348 14th St Santa Monica - (310)1'451-5040* Club 8 Wlshfr B° Be‘e k a )8.

IYris a )16 .120 Cafe 863 West4A, D nssa-1153W (18)789,6 03(5-8387 0 chaic}aFaisD0.o 17400 Ventura ent -Encino ) )257 W. Adam li.Aa ve(310 842-6171 Lee. 12514 Ventura B Studio City - (818)980 Le s Cafe - 14633 Ventura8131 h Oak',- (818)986-2662 Saint .Nla(.1 re‘kas_-,23Witidw dAv 10) 452-2222 Beer1y Hills -1sIfi11(3) ‘2e-1741 -\ 69D5r5.

Santa Monica (310)415l-fk 025- Vv11shre 1376d 9.

'Zabumba -10717 VeniceBlvd Ivvr City (310) 841-6525

NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1 994

calendar - november 94 - u.s.a. at 14 Below

FRIDAY 18

8:00 PM - 2:00 AM - Hugo Jojo at 14

Below

FRIDAY 11 LOS ANGELES 9:00 PM - MIDNIGHT - Kleber Jorge at

SAN FRANCISCO 8:00 PM - Ballet Folclorico do Brasil at Center for the Performing

Arts - 701 Mission St.

SATURDAY 19

Diablo's - (213) 658-8898

SATURDAY 12

BEVERLY HILLS

BEVERLY HILLS

8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de Ipanema at Tatou

8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de lpanema at Tatou

SANTA BARBARA 9:30 PM - Teka at 21 Victoria - (805)

962-5222

LOS ANGELES Capoeira: lecture & demonstration at

UCLA Extension - (310) 825-2272

IRVINE CA 7:30 PM - Teka at Sweet Basil -

(714) 752-3033

LONG BEACH CA 6:00 PM - All Things de Hilster -

Show & Art reception at Samba Art Gallery - (310) 983-9190

WEDNESDAY 23

WEDNESDAY 16 BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de lpanema at Tatou

BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas del lpanema at Tatou

THURSDAY 24

THURSDAY 17 BERKELEY 8:00 PM - Carlos Henrique at Nino's

LOS ANGELES 9:00 PM - Constellation Band at

8:00 PM-Carlos Henriqueat Nino's

LOS ANGELE 9:00 PM - Constellation Band at

Zabumba

LOS ANGELES

SAN FRANCISCO Mtn VICW, (415) 968-3007 Mob- 469 Bush Street San Francisco- (415)2490900 Ashkenaz - 1317 San Pablo Ave-Berkeley(510) 525-5054 Bahia - 41 Franklin St - S Francisco (415) 626-3306 Bahia Trop. -1600 Market St S.Franc (415)861-8657 Chambord - 152 Kearney St S. Francisco (415) 434-3688 Nino's - 1916 Martin L King Jr , Berkeley (510) 845-9303 The Ramp -855 China Basin San Francisco (415)621-2378 Yoshi's -6030 Claremont Ave Oakland (510) 652-9200

TV & RADIO NEW YORK/ NEW JERSEY RADIO Brasil corn S - Every Saturday, 900 PM with Judith King, 88.3 FM - WBGO Brazil FM - Every Sunday, 10.00 PM with Tulio Reis -

105.9 FM - VVNVVK Brazil Street Samba - Every Friday, 10:00 PM with Leo Costa & Alberto Lopes - 89.9 FM - WKCR

TV Brazilians in America-TV

- Every Sunday, 5:30 PM Channel 16 Views of Brazil -Every Saturday, 4:00 PM - Channel 31

S. FRANCISCO Agora Brasil - Every Sat-

FRIDAY 25

Alberto's - 736 W Dana St

g2EntAft* t,4M1W1 LULU =Wey if•Mil:q

SANTA MONICA

SANTA MONICA 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM - Kleber Jorge

taI LEMIAIIII:117iMiTA111:11: Ker:ILQ1

8:00 PM & 11:00 PM - Astrud Gilberto at S 0.B.'s - (212) 243-4940

Zabumba

9:00 PM - MIDNIGHT - Kleber Jorge at Diablo's - (213) 658-8898

urday, 3.00 PM - 4:00 PM, KPFA, 94.0 FM with Elvira Cola and Eric Taller Brasileirinho- Every Wednesday, 9.30 PM, KZSC, 88.1 FM with Renato Frota Canta, Brasil - Every Sunday, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM KKUP, 91.5 FM, with Xuxu,

SATURDAY 26

Maria Jose and David Heyman A Taste of Brazil - Every

BEVERLY HILLS

Sunday, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM, KKSF, 103.7 with Dick

8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de lpanema at Tatou

IRVINE CA 7:30 PM - Teka at Sweet Basil -

(714) 752-3033

WEDNESDAY 30 BEVERLY HILLS 8:30 PM & 10:30 PM - Garotas de lpanema at Tatou

SANTA BARBARA

211;14VMM:ill

NEW YORK

Conte Tropicalia Brasiliana

Every Friday, 8:00 PM -9.00 PM, KUSF, 90.3 with Raimundo Franco

WASHINGTON Berimbau - Brazilian Music- Every Saturday, 9:00

AM - 11:00 AM, 89.3 FM, VVF'FW, Pacifica Radio, with Gisela Mills

8:00 PM - Teka at Soho - (805) 962-

7776

NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1994

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Boston Area Books Livraria Plenitude (800) 532-5809 Consulate Consulado G. do Brasil (617) 617-542-5202 Dentist Sylvio P. Lassa (617) 924-1882 Food & Products Aqui Brazil (617) 787-0758 Brasil Brasil (617) 561-6094 Instruction Braz. & Amer. Lg. Inst.

(617) 787-7716 Music Brazil CDs (617) 524-5030 Publications The Brazilian Monthly (617) 566-3651 Restaurants Café Brazil (617) 789-5980 Tropicana (617) 567-4422 Pampas Churrascaria (617) 661-6613

Chicago Consulate Consulado G. do Brasil (312) 464-0244 Translations Portuguese Lang. Ctr. (312) 276-6683

Los Angeles Area yang (800) GO VARIG ' Vasp (310) 364-0160 Arts & Crafts Bakari Art Studio (213)938.0523 Folk Creations (310) 693-2844 Uniquely Brazil - Folk (818) 458-1474 Zebi Designs (310) 391-6530 Auto Repair Cosmo Auto Parts (213) 259-9818 Pit Stop - Oficina do Its (310) 643-6666 Banks Banco do Brasil (213) 688-2996 Catering Remi Vila Real (818) 280-0061 Clothes Samba (310) 983-9190 Clubs & Associations Clube Bras. da Calif.

(714) 857-6764 MILA - Samba School (310) 305-8387 SambaLi (310) 983-9190

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Clube Bras. San Diego (619) 295-0842 SambaLit -Esc. de Samba (310) 983-9190 Sunday Night Cl. Brazil (619) 222-6911 Consulate Brazilian Consulate (213) 651-2664 Dentists Gilberto Henriques (213) 464-0524 Jose Carlos D. Polido (714) 642-0112 Events Promotion Brazilian Nites Prod.

(818) 760-4600 Pegasus - Parties & Ent. (818) 549-0383 Taquinho Promotions (310) 281-6950 The Rio Thing (818) 753-4932 Food & Products Cantt & Associates (310) 827-9139 Hair Gigi's (310) 273-0851 Manage 0 Trois (310) 278-4430 Instruction Brasil Brasil Cult. Ctr (310) 397-3667 Dance Classes - Rita (310) 842-9647 Modern Lang. Center (310) 839-8427 Samba Puro (310) 824-3404 Music Bossa Nova - Ge6rgia (818) 891-0912 Braz. Jazz /All Occasions (310) 839-3788 Piano/Flute - Vera (310) 559-7347 Jazz -Richard Samuels (818) 798-5424 Match Maker Fogo e Plaid° (213) 467-6944 Money Remittance Vigo-California (619) 479-VIGO Physician Nilson A. Santos (213) 483-3430 Psychotherapy Elizabeth Almeida M.A. (818) 907-4927 Publications News from Brazil (213) 255,4953 Restaurants Bossa Nova (310) 657-5070 Brazilian Tropical (714) 720-1522

By Brazil (310) 787-7520 Café Brasil (310) 837-8957 Lulu's Alibi (310) 479-6007 Pan Handler (714) 970-5826 Yolie's Brazilian Steak (714) 251-0722 Zabumba (310) 841-6525 Translation/Interp.

Brazilian Int. Affairs (310) 854-5881 Latitude Tr. & Interpr.

(310) 477-0210 Tocantins Communic.

(818) 343-4451

Verdiblue Tr. & Intern.

Cheese Bread House (213) 255-8062 (305) 443-5358 Gula Gula Travel Agencies (305) 532-3636 Around the World TrL Travel Agencies (800) 471-6333 Brazil Tours Atiantictur (818) 767-1200 (800) 535-0942 Braz.-American Travel Brazilian Wave (310) 670-9347 (305) 561-3788 Cheviot Hills Travel BTB Tours (310) 202-6264 (800) BRASIL-4 Dynasty Tours' Discover Brazil Tours (818) 845-5757 (800) 524-3666 Holiday Tours & Travel. Euroamerica (909) 359-8882 (305) 358-3003 Iva C. W. Travel International Tours (909) 988-7127 (800) 822-1318 South Star Tours • Lama Travel (310) 416-1001 (305) 374-8635 Southwinds Monark Travel (310) 568-8426 (305) 374-5855 Yes Brazil New Port Tours (213) 461-2233 (305) 372-5007 Venture Travel Video (305) 379-7678 ArtMedia Via Brasil Travel (310) 478-2103 (305) 866-7580 Zuruk Video (310) 450-0906

Miami Area

New York New Jersey

Airlines • Transbrasil (800) 872-3153 ' Luso-Brazilian Books Yang (800) 727-LUSO. (800) 468-2744 Clubs & Associatior s Vasp Brazilian Ch. of Com: (800) 732-8277 (212) 575-9030 Banks Brazilian Corn. Buren" (212) 916-3200 Banco do Brasil Brazilian Trade Bur. (305) 358-3586 (212) 224-6280 Banco Banorte (305) 577-0472 Consulate Banco Boavista Brazilian Gen. Cons. .

(305) 530-9057 (212) 757-3080 Banco Nacional Food & Products (305) 372-0100 Amazonia Banco Real (718) 204-1521 (305) 358-2433 Coisa Nossa Banespa (201) 578-2675 (305) 358-9167 Merchant Express Clu.s & Associations (201) 589-5884 ABFC - As. Bras. da Flor.

Pub 'cations (407) 354-5200 Brazilian Voice Cam. Corn. Brasil- EUA (201) 955-1137 (305) 579-9030 Folha do Brasil ARARA - Amazon. As. (212) 869-7022 (813) 842-3161 News from Brazil Consulate (718) 746-0169 Consulado do Brasil Portugal-Brasil News (305) 285-6200 (212) 228-2958 Dentists The Brazilians (212) 382-1630 Arnaldo Souza (305) 595-3238 Restaurants Hedimo de Si Brasilia (305) 262-8212 (212) 869-9200 Food & Beverages Brazil 2000 (212) 877-7730 All Braz. Imp. & Exp. Brazilian Pavillion (305) 523-8134 (212) 758-8129 Via Brasil Cabana Carioca (305) 866-7718 (212) 581-8088 Physicians Indigo Blues Dr. Jorge Macedo (212) 221-0033 (305) 271-7311 S.0.13.

Dr. Mario Sanchez (212) 243-4940 (305) 541-7819 Travel Agencies Dr. Neri Franzon Barb Tour Service (305) 772-4694 (201) 313-0996 Publications Basbrasil Florida Review (800) 422-2200 (305) 374-5235 International Satiny Restaurants (718) 699-2900 Brazilian Tropicana Mystical Destinations (305) 781-1113 (718) 956-1630 Brazilian Delight Nascente Travel (305) 374-0032 (718) 545-0608 Brazilian Pie Odyssea Travel Serve (305) 866-1001 (212) 826-3019

Santos Dumont Int. (212) 764-5680

San Francisco Area Airlines yang (415) 986-5737 Vasp (800) 732-VASP Antiques Vila Antiga (408) 649-5576 Auto Repair

Music Celia Malheiros (415) 664-5481 Doug Gittins (415) 771-2706 Fogo na Roupa (510) 635-8406 Marcos Santos/Climat (415) 585-8312 Marcos Silva (510) 945-0138 Terra Sul (415) 752-9782 Viva Brazil (415) 342-8508 Voz do Brazil (415) 586-2276

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Pulp .Fiction ** Writer/director/actor Quentin 'fLirtinuito "(R: et SetTOit' Dogi, [rue t a Romance) has done again . Pulp 1,-Ivtwo.wifi lii star studded cast - ol Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, IJino Thunuan, TIarvey Keitel, Tim Rot Amanda Plitininer, /vlana de McAeiros, Ving Rliames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis and OuLlitiii.

Tarantino -- brings this :exciting entertaining and Unique action thrillei to full realization. Three stories cuss cross presenting the small tune criminal world, pit falls and all, in a highly creative and imaginatiye vsay. Done in tlie tradition of the film noir cycle ()I' the 40's and 50's the filin ricochets with laughter a we flip back and forth through their lurid adventures. A Minima Films release,

Pulp nit 0 L.scritor/diretor/ato Quentin Tarantino Il?c.sefToir 1)og5, Mee Itottlatice) Tel,ClItt a niagica. l'ulp e in uni elenco clieio de estrelas — John Tntvolta, Saiiitiel L. Jackst)ii, Lhna Han ev Keitel, "I iin Roth,. Arrialida 1SAaria de Mecleiros, Virig Rliames Inc Sta./. 12osanna Atqltette, Christopher Vv'alken, Bruce Willis and Otientin Tarantino -iliai 10()%Ve filme de suspense, aca eirux)Igarite e divertmla No ixxitierui imindo do crime niinclo, tros enredos entrelacarn, corn toclos os setis perig(is, de ulna forina super criativa.

I eito ria tradicilo do ciclo do filine noir dos ant', 40 c 50 o lilnie ressoa corn risos cnquanto garigorrainos em sua aventuras Distribuictio iii Mirama Films

John Travolta (center) in Pulp Fiction.

Barcelona *** Whit Stilhnan follows his Metropolitan success with a witty, romantic, unorthodox political film about two American cousins in post-Franco Spain. Featuring an international cast and starring Taylor Nichols and Christopher Eigman

Barcelona *** Whit Stillman na esteira de seu sucesso corn Metropolitan fez esse Wine politico inteligente e romantic° sobre dais primos amencanos no Espanha pos-Franco. Corn tun elenco internacional, estrelando Taylor Nichols c Christopher Eigman

(Metropolitan) the film sparkles under Stillman's direction. A Fine Line Features Release.

Blue Sky *** 1/2 Directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Locane and Chris O'Donnell, it is a family drama and the last film made by Richardson who died in November, 1991. Written from screenwriter Rama Laurie Stegner 's own thmily memoirs, it is a haunting tale of love and obsession. An Orion release.

The Browning Version ** Based on a play by Terence Rattigan this is a remake of a film made in 1951 starring Michael Redgrave. Now the professor is portrayed by Albert Finney, his wife by Greta Scacchi. The cast includes Michael Gambon, in this retelling of a public school story. A splendid cast makes it all the worthwhile. A Paramount Pictures release.

Caro Diario (Dear Diary) ***1/2 Italian with English subtitles. Italian director Nanni Moretti is a legend in his country and Europe.

Unknown to most in the US this is his first film that is being distributed in the US. The film is a three segmented diary of his life as viewed by this talented man. It is funny, it is philosophical, it is vete, it touches all the Dases of human feeling and resounds with laughter throughout.

Wilmer of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1994. This film will enchant you with its whimsical humor. A Fine Line feature. .

(Metropolitan) o filme brilha, sob a direcilo de Lancamento da Fine Line Features.

Blue Sky *** 1/2 Dirioido por Tony Richardson, estrelando Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Locane e Chris O'Donnell, e urn • drama familiar e o Ultimo filme feito por Richardson que faleceu em n novembro de 1991. Baseado nas memOrias familiares da roteirista Rama Laurie Stegner, é uma historia compulsiva de amor e obsessao. Distribuido pela Orion.

The Browning Version *** Baseado na pep de Terence Rattigan esta refilmagem de um ape de 1951 estrelando Michael Redgrave. Agora o professor é interpretado por Albert Finney, sua mulher por Greta Scacchi.

0 elenco inclui Michael Gambon, nesta historia de tuna escola pnbliea. Urn elenco maravilhoso faz do filme uma joia.

Distribuido pela Paramount Pictures.

Caro Diario (Dear Diary) ***1/2 Italian° corn legendas em Ingles. Diretor Italian° Natun Moretti e tuna legenda em seu pals e na Europa. Desconhecido do grande pfiblico nos EUA este e seu primeiro filine distribuido aqui. 0 filme e um diario emu tres partes vista pelos olhos deste homem talentoso. E engracado, filosofico, poetic°, aborda todos as sentimentos humanos e nos faz gargalhar o tempo inteiro. Vencedor de Melhor Diretor do Festival de Cannes de 1994. Este filine o fascinara corn sea humor esdnixtilo. Distribuido pela Fine' Line.

Clear and Present Danger **** Harrison Ford's exciting thriller based on Tom Clancy's book and directed by Phillip Noyce is a superb action film. Arrogance and power are pitted against ethical values in this thought provoking intelligent timely story.

A must see film. A Paramount release.

Clerks *** Winner of the 1994 Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy Award and the 1994 Cannes Film Festival International Critics Week. Written and directed by Kevin Smith, Clerks is a little film that went over big. Filmed at a Quick Stop Grocery in Leonardo, New Jersey in 21 days, the plot developed from the activities at the store and the characters that shopped there. The Video store next door was also part of the scene. Now in release by Miramax you too can see what it is all about, and judge for yourself.

Corrina, Corrina ** 1/2 Jessie Nelson wrote, produced and directed this semiautobiographical film which stars Whoopie Goldberg, Ray Liotta and Tina Majorina.

Whoopie portrays a housekeeper who is able to heal the wounds of a bereaved widower and his young daughter in an unconventional way. All three of them benefit from their relationship in this homespun drama. A New Line Cinema release.

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman *** 1/2 A delicious treat is this tale of a widowed Taiwanese chef and his three unmarried daughters. From the opening scene of a Chinese meal in preparation to its final conclusion, the film envelops you in its emotional fabric. The tantalizing food, expert performances, plus the story keep you guessing untilits surprise ending.

In Mandarin with English subtitles. A Samuel Goldwyn Pictures Release.

Ed Wood ***1/2 Tim Burton directs Johnny Depp in a hilarious biopic of schlock director Ed Wood whose ran •e of

Clear and Present Danger **** 0 excitante thriller de Harrison Ford baseado no livro de Torn Clancy e dirigido por Phillip Noyce é urn excelente filme de ack. Arrogancia e poder se confrontam corn valores eticos nesta hist6ria provocante, inteligente e atual. Um filme obrigatorio. Da Paramount.

Clerks *** Vencedor do Premio Trofeu dos Cineastas do Festival de Sundance de 1994 e da Semana Internacional de Criticos do Festival de Cinema de Cannes. Escrito e dirigido per Kevin Smith, Cletks é urn pequeno filme que fez urn grande sucesso.

Filmado em uma Quick Stop Grocery em Leonardo, New Jersey, em 21 dias, o enredo foi criado a partir das atividades na loja e os personagens que ali faziam compras. A locadora de video ao lado tambem foi incluida.

Julgue por conta propria do que se trata. Um filme da Miramax.

Corrina, Corrina ** 1/2 Jessie Nelson escreveu, produziu e dirigiu este filme semi-autobiografico estrelado por Whoopie Goldberg, Ray Liotta and Tina Majorina. Whoopie faz o papel de uma dona de cam capaz de curar, de. uma forma nada convencional, as feridas de urn constemado viiwo e de sua jovem filha.

Todos os tres acabam se beneficiando de tal relacionamento neste drama familiar singelo.

Lancamento da New Line Cinema.

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman *** 1/2 Urn prato delicioso, essa his-lona de urn chef taivanes enviuvado. Da cena de abertura, corn a preparayab de uma refeicao chinesa, ate sua conclus5o, o filme nos envolve em sua urdidura emocional. A tentayao da comida e o desempenho soberbo dos atores, aliados ao enredo do filme o mantem em urn jogo de adivinha ate o final surpreendente. Em Mandarim, corn legendas em Ingle's. Um lancamento da Samuel Goldwyn Pictures Ed Wood ***1/2 Tim Burton dirige Johnny Depp nesta biografia hilana do diretor desclassificado Ed Wood alio ambito de fihnes

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films produced in the fifties ran the gamut of bad to worse. Outrageous was his life style, corny were his films, but Wood did put Bela Lugosi in one of ins movies which gives Martin Landau a chance for an Oscar with his brilliant performance of Lugosi in his decline. A Touchstone Pictures release.

Forrest Gump **** Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a joy to see. He is a simple minded man raised by a doting mother (Sally Field) whose old fashioned words of wisdom sustain him.

Examples: "What does normal mean anyway", "Stupid is as Stupid does" and "Life is like a box. of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get". With these words of wisdom Forrest Gump does not only survive, he manages to succeed brilliantly all the while participating in the most turbulent years of recent American history. He is johnny on the spot in the major events of the period. Robert Zemeckis brings the tecluncal magic to support the story. Being There, Rain Man and now Forrest Gump celebrate the simple approach to life and its ironic rewards.

As we travel through the years With Forrest Gump the frantic and horrifying events that have transpired become a bit clearer through his eccentric sensibility and leaves us with a bit of hope. Love, life and the pursuit of happiness as lived by Forrest Gump is a primer of faith and good will. A modern day Candide. A Paramotun release.

Hoop Dreams **** A documentary based on a true-life story that spans five years in the lives of two inner-city high school boys who dream of playing in the NBA. Arthur Agee and William Gates are followed through those years as the story plays out. The film is a collaborative work of Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert, and was produced by Kartemquin Films made over a period of seven years, as they film the boys and their families through those turbulent years. A Fine Line Features release.

produzidos nos anos 50 se situavam entre ruim e pessimo. Sett estilo de vida era escandaloso, seus filmes xaroposos, mas Wood usou Bela Lugosi em um de setts flues dando a Martin Landau a chance de vencer um Oscar interpretando coin. brilho urn Lugosi em declinio. Lancamento da Touchstone Pictures.

Forrest Gump **** Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) é um prazer de se ver. Ele é urn simplono educado por uma mile devotada (Sally Field) que o guia corn tuna antiquada colecrio de chavaes.

Exernplos: "Afinal, o que é normal?", "Estipido 6 fazer estupidez" e "A vida como um caixa de chocolates. Voce nunca sabe o que vai ganhar".

Corn estas sabias palavras Forrest Gump ntio apenas sobrevive, como se sai maravilhosamente bem enquanto participa dos anos mais turbulentos da recente histaria americana. Ele esta presente aos maiores acontecimentos da era.

Robert Zemeckis usa a magica da tecnologia para contar sua historia. Being There, Rain Alan, e, agora, Fortest Gump celebram a vida simples e suas irOnicas recompensas. Ern nossa longa viagem corn Forrest os eventos freneticos e assustadores que transpiram tomam-se mais claros atraves de sua exc'entrica sensibilidade e nos da esperanca. Amor, vida, e busca da felicidade de acordo coin Forrest Gump 6 tuna cartilha de fe e boa vontade. Um Candide moderno.

Lancamento da Paramount.

Hoop Dreams **** Documentarioi baseado em historia verdadeira que se estende por cinco anos na vida de dois garotos de segtuulo grail que sonha jogar na NBA. Arthur Agee e William Gates s5o seguidos todos esse anos. 0 filme é urn trabalho a varias m5os de Steve James, Frederick Marx e Peter Gilbert, e tbi produzido pela Kartemqttin Films. Pita foi feita durante urn period° de sete anos, coin filmagens dos garotos e suas familias por todos esses anos turbulentos.

Lancamento da Fine Line Features.

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I Don't Want to Talk About It *** From Argentine Maria Luisa Bemberg brings an allegorical tale about the mysteries of the human heart.

Starring Marcell° Mastrmani who pursues the love of his life not withstanding unusual complications. The passions of the heart and soul are fully explored in the film up. until its rising ending.

A Sony Pictures Classic release.

I Don't Want to Talk About It *** Da Argentina Maria Luisa Bamberg traz uma histeria alegorica sobre os misterios do coracao human°. Estrelando Marcello Mastroiani que esti em busca do amor de sua vida apesar de mesperadas complicacoes. As paixaes do coracao e da alma sao exploradas dendamente ate o final surpresa.

Lancamento da Sony Pictures Classic.

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The Lion King The Lion King **sin Disney does it Outro sucesso da again. A new Disney. Um novo animated film that desenho animado que captures the beauty ciiptura a beleza da of Africais a Africa em tuna musical • aventura-comedia comedy-adventure que acompanha a that follows the jornada de Simba, journey of Simba, a urn leaozinho que lion cub who grows cresce na floresta e up in the jungle and aprende o sentido de learns the meaning seu destino corn a of his destiny with ajuda de seus the help of his 'amigos animals.' 'animal friends.'

Corn cancaes With Elton John's originais de new songs and the Elton John e a magic and artistry magica e a arte da of Disney animation Disney este this is a pleasure é um prato apetitoso treat for the whole para a frunilia family. mteira..

The Mask *** The Mask *** Take Jim Caney, Tome Jim Carrey, Richard Jeni, Peter Richard Jeni, Peter Riegert, directed by Riegert, dirigidos por Chuck Russell, mix Chuck Russell, with the computer misture coin a generated animation animacao gerada por of Industrial Light computador da and Magic and what Industrial Light and 56

emerges is an energetic slapstick comic display of live-action antics.

Add grand style song and dance routines and a plot of magical consequences rotating around a supernatural mask, mix these ingredients well and 'voila' here is a movie that swings and sways in its own fantastic way.

Natural Born Killers *** 1/2 Oliver Stone in his hard-hitting style brings carnage to the screen in his latest film Natural Born Killers, starring Robert Downey Jr., who plays a "reality TV" host whose main function is to bring gore and more to the public. A serious reflection on media madness in its dealing with crime and punishment There are no holds barred in this not for the squeamish story that is taken from today's headlines.

Also starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones in this Warner Bros. release.

Oleanna *** Writer/director David Mamet adapted his award winning play for the screen. The two character plot John (William H. Macy) and Carol (Debra Eisenstadt) are embroiled in a confrontation. She is a student protesting her failing 'grade, he is her professor awaiting approval of tenure at the University and in the process of buying a new home. She arrives without an appointment questioning her grade. His response is to bombard her with omppus s. The exchange is rapid fire and then the tables are turned. She takes up her feminist cudgels and batters him into oblivion. A battle of the sexes starts with verbal assaults and then escalate to other dimensions.

Provocative and

ice o que voc obtém é uma comedia-pastelao cheia de travessuras.

Adicione musica em grande estilo, numeros de danca, e uma trama corn consequencias magicas girando em tomo de uma mascara sobrenatural, mexa bem esses ingredientes e 'voila' urn filme que balanca e gmga.

Natural Born Killers *** 1/2 Oliver Stone coin seu estilo vigoroso traz cantificma para a tela em seu Ultimo filme, Natural Born Killers, estrelando Robert Downey Jr., que far o papel de um apresentador de "TVrealidade" ciija finalidade principal é trazer sangue para o Uma reflexao sena sabre a loucura da midia em seu trato corn crime e pwuicâo Nao ha rreiras nesta histeria tirade des manchetes, para q.uem tern estOrnago.

Tambem estrelando Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis e Tommy Lee Jones.

Da Warner Bros.

Oleanna *** Escritor/diretor David Mamet adaptou para o cinema ma peca premiada. Dors personagens do enredo John (William H. Macy) e Carol (Debra Eisenstadt) estao envolvidos em uma briga. Ela é uma estudante protestando sua reprovacao, ele seu professor, esperando seu titulo de catedratico na universidade e em vias de comprar uma nova casa. Ela chega sem haver marcado uma hora questionando sua nota. Sua reacao é bombarded-la corn observacoes pomposas. 0 bateWca vim tiroteio e ha uma virada de mesa. Ela agarra seu ponete fonmista e o massacra sem piedade. Inicialmente como urn assalto verbal, a batalha dos sexos escala a uma guerra sem fronteiras.

Provocante e adulto

adult in execution is Oleanna a film You will not forget .

Released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Only You *** Nonnrui Jewison directs this puckish romance with a light touch. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that her true love is waiting for her as predicted by a .ouija board when she was a pre.-teen. The magic name of Damon Bradley comes up just before her wedding. She flees to Italy to meet the man of her destiny. Bonnie Hunt plays sister-in-law Kate Who accompanies her. It is a romantic romp with Robert Downey Jr. the one she meets, he is not Damon Bradley but is reluctant to let his true love go. With the background of Venice, Rome and the Italian seaside they travel down the rocky road of love.

All's well that ends well while tripping the light fantastic in the pursuit of romance. A Tristar Pictures release.

Quiz Show **** Directed by Robert Redford, the inside story of a TV scam stars Ralph Fiennes, John Turtuno and Rob Morrow, who are the three compelling components that reflect the tragedy of the set of circumstances that shattered their lives.

Corruption, amorality and the lure of fame and fortune are all played out in the film. A truly American experience. A Hollywood Pictures release.

River Wild *** 1/2 A stunning perfonnance by eryl Streep puts this thriller in high gear as they raft down the rapids of the River Wild.

Directed by Curtis Hanson with David Straithern, Kevin Bacon, Joseph Mazzello and John C. Reilly. Based on a story by Denis

em sua execucao, Oleanna é um film de que voce a° se esquecera. Da Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Only You *** Norman Jewison dirige esse romance moleque de fins sensibilidade. Faith (Marisa T:fdt cre que seu v eiro amor a espera como predito durante sua mf'ancia por uma tam medifinica. 0 nome magic° de Damon Bradley surge quando ja esta pain se casar. Ela oge para a Italia pain encontrar o omem de seu destino. Bonnie Hunt e a cunhada Kate que a acompanha. E uma travessura romantica corn Robert Downey Jr. corn quem se encontra. Ele nao e Damon Bradley mas esti relutante em deixar seu amor Corn Veneza, oma e as praias italianas de fimdo, ales viajam pela estrada pedregosa do amor. Tudo acaba as mil maravilluts nests fantastica aventura em busca do amor.

Lancamento da Tristar Pictures.

Quiz Show **** Dingido por Robert Redford, o atlas dos bastidores de urn golpe na TV estrelando Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro e Rob Morrow, os tres pomponentes que refletem a tragedia des circunstancias que destruirarn sua vidas. Corrupcito, amoralidade e a tentacao da fama e da fortuna sao apresentadas. Urns verdadeira experiencia amencana.

Disbribuido pela Hollywood Pictures.

River Wild *** 1/2 Uma interpretacao magnifica de Meryl Steep assegura o suspense enquanto a acao se desenrola no rapidos do rio Wild.

Dingido por Curtis Hanson corn David Straithern, Kevin Bacon, Joseph Mazzello e John C. Reilly. Baseado ern urns historia de Denis O'Neill, voce

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O'Neill, you gasp, yot.i cringe, you sigh with relief when this family-in-peril film ends. A Universal Pictures release.

The Scout ** 1/2 Baseball is the inspiration for this comedy written by Andrew Bergman and directed by Michael Ritchie.

Starring Albert Brooks and Dianne Wiest. Since the baseball strike you mayget a few comic uunngs from this film. A 20th Century Fox release.

Second Best *** William Hurt portrays a 40 year old Welsh bachelor who adopts a disturbed youngster, Christopher Cleary Miles. Directed by Chris Menges. Also features John Hurt.

A Warner Bros. release.

The Shadow *** An Art Deco look at this once popular radio show. Stars Alec Baldwin as Yenko, who fights the evil doer Shiwan Khan (John Lone) who is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan and is following in his footsteps to take over the world.

Margo Lane (Penelope Anne Miller) has telepathic gifts that link her with Baldwin whose alias is Lamont Cranston, New York City playboy.

Director Russell Mulcahy gives his all in this faithful rendition of an old fashioned classic.

Great supporting cast includes Jonathan Winters, Peter Brody and Ian Mcclellan. A Universal release.

Shawshank Redemption *** Stephen King wrote the story and Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman act it out in a prison setting directed by Frank Darabont. It reflects a 20 year friendship between two convicts. A very odd couple indeed. A

arfa,.retesa-se, e suspira de alivio quando este filme de uma familia perigo termina. Lanyamento da Universal Pictures.

The Scout ** 1/2 Beisebol 6 a inspira9ao para essa comedia escnta par Andrew Bergman e dirigicla por Michael Ritchie. Estrelando Albert Brooks e Dianne Wiest.

Devido a greve do beisebol voce pode ganhar alguns tumos comicos deste filme.

Lanyamento da 20th Century Fox. Second Best *** William Hurt vive um quarentao soften° gales que adota urn jovem delinquente londrino, Christopher Cleary Miles. Dirigido por Chris Menges.

Tambem corn John Hurt. Lanyamento da Warner Bros..

The Shadow *** Urn visao Art Deco de urn show de radio outrora famoso.

Estrelam Alec Baldwin, como Yenko, que combate o malvado Shiwan Khan (John Lone), descendente direto de Genghis Khan e como este quer dominar o mundo.

Margo Lane (Penelope Anne Miller) possui poderes telepaticos que a unem a Baldwin cujo nome de guerra 6 Lamont Cranston, urn playboy de Nova Iorque. 0 diretor Russell Mulcahy dá o que tern de melhor nessa reproduyao de um classic° ao gosto antigo. Urn born elenco de apoio inclui Jonathan Winters, Peter Brody e Ian Mcclellan.

Lanyamento da Universal Studios.

Shawshank Redemption *** Stephen King escreveu a lustoria e Tim Robbins e Morgan Freeman a intetpretam em urn amthente de prisao dirigido por Frank Darabont. Mostra a amizade de 20 anos entre dois prisioneiros. Uma dupla reahnente

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Cohunbia, Castle Rock release.

Sleep With Me *** With a budget under $3 million, a contemporary comedy that works.

Starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz, Craig Sheffer, with a scene stealer by Quentin Tarantino, the film sparkles with wit and humor. Shown in an easy improvisational style, three buddies tussle it out with love and friendship at stake. First feature film for Roty Kelly, a UCLA Film School graduate. A United Artists/MGM release.

White ***1/2 Krzystztof Kieslowski brings the second part of his trilogy "Three Colors" following award-winning Blue with this absorbing story of Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a successful hairdresser in Paris whose beautiful French wife (Julie Delpy) divorces him after six months of marriage. He returns to Warsaw to start his life over again.

While struggling to

estranha. Columbia, Castle Rock release.

Sleep With Me *** Corn urn oryamento abaixo de US$ 3 milhoes, uma comedia contemporanea que funciona. Corn Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz, Craig Sheffer, e Quentin Tarantino, o filme brilha corn humor e inteligencia.

Mostrado.em urn estilo de =proviso, tres amigos lutam, corn amor e annzade na parada. Primeiro longa metragem de Rory Kelly, fonnado pela Escola de Filme da UCLA. Da United Artists/MGM. White ***1/2 Krzystztof Kieslowski apresenta a segunda parte de sua trilogia "Three Colors" seguindo-se ao premiado Blue, ' corn a histhria empolgante de Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), uma cabeleireira de sucesso em Paris, cuja bela esposa francesa (Julie Delpy) de divorcia dele apos seis meses de casamento. Ele volta a Varsovia para recomeyar sua vida.

Enquanto luta para

do so he is confronted with some startling developments in this unusual and perceptive story. A Miramax release.

(With English subtitles.)

isso, ele tern de enfrentar alguns acontecimentos mesperados nesta historia original e bem focada. Da Miramax.

(Corn legendas em Ingles.)

SHOWS

SHOWS

CHICAGO

CHICAGO

The Second City Legendary comedy for 35 years.

Chicago's best and most affordable laugh show at North and- Wells.

(312) 337-3992 Tony N Tina's Wedding *** An audience participation romp.

Tickets include unlimited Italian buffet, champagne toast, live music, dancing and wedding cake. At the Pipers Alley.

(312) 664-8844

The Second City Comedia legendaria ha 35 anos em cartaz. 0 melhor e mais em conta show de risos em Chicago.

No North and Wells.

(312) 337-3992 Tony N Tina's Wedding *** Travessura corn participayao da plateia. Bilhetes mcluem bufe italiano, brinde coin champanhe, masica ao vivo, danca e bolo. No Pipers Alley. (312) 6648844

LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES

SHOWS

SHOWS

Pet Mom *** Writer director Justin Tanner brings a hilarious view of sitcom comedy combined with the real world. The talented ensemble led by Ellen Ratner and Elizabeth Ruscio keeps you laughing.

At the Cast Theatre Hollywood, (213) 462-0265. Runs indefinitely.

Floating Islands *** At the Mark Taper Forum, a two part play written by Eduardo Machado and directed by Oskar Eustis is having its world premiere. Part 1: The Family Business, The Modern Ladies of Guanabacao and In the Eye of the Hurricane. Part 2: After the Revolution, Fabiola and Broken Eggs. The parts can be seen together or apart. At the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, (213) 9720700.

Alegria (Cirque du **** Go to the circus and see their wondrous performers. From Canada, this award winning troupe will

Pet Mom *** Autor diretor Justin Tanner traz uma visao hilariante de tuna comedia de TV combinado corn o mundo real. 0 talentoso elenco encabeyado por Ellen Ratner e Elizabeth Rttscio o mantern gargalliando. No Cast Theatre Hollywood.

(213) 462-0265.

Indefinidamente.

Floating Islands *** No Mark Taper Forum, uma peca de duas partes escrita por Eduardo Machado e diri,gida por Oskar Eustis esta tendo sua premiere mundial. Parte 1: 0 Negocio da Familia, As Darnas Modemas de Guanabacao e In the Eye of the Hurricane. Parte 2: After the Revolution, Fabiola and Broken Eggs. As partes podem ser vistas minas on separadas.

No Mark Taper Forum em L. A., (213) 972-0700.

Alegria (Cirque du Soleil) **** Va ao circo e veja seus artistas. extraordinanos. Do Canada, esta troupe premiada o encantara 57

enchant you with their newest production. In Santa Monica at the beach.

Runs indefinitely.

(310) 458-7773 Picasso at the Lapin Agile *** 1/2 Steve Martin comic/ actor/playwright brings Einstein and Picasso together in an encounter that is bound to please and entertain all who see it. It is funny. It is smart. It is unique.

A splendid treat for the theater goer who wishes to see something different and can chuckle all the while. At the Westwood Playhouse. .

corn sua mais recente prochicao. Em Santa Monica, a bean da praia. Sem data pars acabar.

(310) 458-7773 Picasso at the Lapin Agile *** 1/2 Steve Martin comediante/ator/ teatrologo promove o encontro de Einstein corn Picasso em uma peca que garante agradar o mais qxigente espectador.

E engracada, E intehgente. E original. Um brinde especial para quem gosta de teatro e quer ver algo diferente e se divertir ao mesmo tempo. No Westwood Playhouse.

NEW YORK

NOVA IORQUE

The highlights of theNew York City theater scene were declared by the Tony awards this year. The Tony winners are: Play Angels in America, Perestroika by Tony Kushner. This is the second part of last year's winner Angels in America (Millennium Approaches). Actor Stephen Spinella, who portrayed a man with AIDS, also won his second Tony for this twopart show. Last year he won in the featured actor role, this year he was named the best leading actor in a play for Perestroika.

These plays are of epic proportions and a huge thematic achievement.

The musical Passion by Stephen Sondheim won four Tonys: Best Musical, Book of Musical (James Lapine), Original Score (Stephen Sondheim), Leading Actress/Musical (Donna Murphy). A Stephen Sondheim/ James Lapine collaboration Passion is about an obsessive love affair in the 19th century and was based on an Italian film directed

by Ettore Scola, Passione di Amore.

Three Tall Women - A riveting new

As atracpes principals da vida teatral em Nova Iorque foram definidas pelo premio Tony.

Peca Angels in 'America, Perestroika par Tony Kushner. Esta é a segunda parte do vencedor do ano passado, Angels in America Millennium Approaches). Ator Stephen Spinella, que viveu o papel de um homem corn AIDS, tambem ganhou seu segundo Tony par este show de thias partes. Ano passado ele venceu como ator de destaque, agora como protagomsta de Perestroika. Essas pecas de proporcao epica representam urn enorrne sucesso.

0 musical Passion de Stephen Sondheim conquistou 4 Tonys: Melhor Musical, Melhor Livreto (James Lapine), Musica Original (Stephen Sondheim), Mellor Atriz em Musical (Donna Murphy).

Colaboracao entre Stephen Sondheim e James Lapine fala de um amor obsessivo do seculo XIX. e foi baseado no fihne italiano Passione di Amore do diretor Ettore Scola.

Three Tall Women Nova e fascinante

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work by master pep do mestre playwright Edward &amatirgo Edward Albee. The 1994 Premio Pulitzer Prize winner. Pulitzer de 94.

Promenade Theatre Promenade Theatre 2162 Broadway 2162 Broadway (212) 580-1313.

(212) 580-1313.

Jackie Mason Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect A controversial Uma piada par hilarious show with a mint° neste show joke a minute. cantroverso de Jackie Golden Theatre - 252 Mason. Golden Th. W 45th St. 252 W. 45th St (212) 239-6200.

(312) 239-6200.

Jelly Roll *** 1/2 Jelly Roll *** 1/2 A musical about the Urn musical sobre a life of Jelly Roll 'Ma de-Jellv Roll Morton. Music by Morton. Miisica de Morton, book by Morton, livreto de Vernel Bagneris who Vernel Bagneris que also directs. We tarnbem dinge. follow Jelly Roll ' Acompanhamos Jelly through his early Roll atraves de seus years into adulthood, tenros anos ate a his rise and fall with idade adulta, sua the musical beat ever asceng§o e queda, present. An exciting cam rinisica sempre journey down presente. Uma musical memory viagem excitante ao .7"

lane. A perceptive and entertaining view of it all.

Nunsense - Running nine years and still packing them in.

Lots of laughs in this perennial comedy.

Douglas Fairbanks Theatre - 432 W 42nd St • (212) 2-39-6200.

Other winners: Leading Actress/ Play: Diana Riggs in Medea, which is a magnetic replaying of Euripides' tragedy.

The musicals that garnered Tonys besides Passion were Beauty and the Beast, She Loves Me, and the winner of the best Revival/ Musical was Carousel. The Revival/Play winner was '45's An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley 's

passado musical. ma° perceptiva e divertida.

Nunsense - Nove anos em cartaz mas ainda lotando a casa.

Muito riso nesta comedia atemporal.

Douglas Fairbanks Theatre - 432 W. 42nd St. (212) 239-6200.

Mats vencedores: Melhor Atriz: Diana Riggs em Medea, que 6 uma releitura fascinante da tragedia de Euripides.

Outros musicais que conquistaram Tonys: Beauty and the Beast e She Loves Me. 0 vencedor de Mellior Nova Apresentacdo de Musical foi Carousel. Na categoria Peca o prenuado foi An Inspector Calls (1945) de J. B. Priestley.

SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO

Gilligan's Island, The Musical For the die hard fans, this is a stage version of the popular TV series, at the Theater in Old Town, San Diego.

(619) 688-2494 Home David Storey comic look at the undercurrents of conversation. The chit chat that we all do as we pass the time of day. At the Old Globe Theatre Cassius Carter Stage.

(619) 239-2255

Gilligan's Island, The Musical Para os fanaticos e uma versa() teatral da serie popular de TV No Theater in Old Town, San Diego.

(619) 688-2494 Home A visao comica de David Storey do subtexto da linguagem. A conversa mole em que todos n6s nos engajamos. No Old Globe Theatre Palco Cassius Carter.

(619) 239-2255

Later Live A. R. Gurney's new comedy when he meets a former flame that he had rejected 30 years before, hoping that their love rekindle. Old Globe Theatre. (619) 239-2255

Later Live A nova comedia de A. R. Gurney em que ele reencontra ulna yenta papa° que havia rejeitado hi 30 anos, esperando que a chama se reacenda.

Old Globe Theatre (619) 239-2255

SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO

-Beach Blanket Babylon This outrageous musical revue has been packing them in for over 20 years. This local landmark is a must see and part of the San Francisco landscape. At the Club Fuggard.

(415) 421-4222

Beach Blanket Babylon Esta revista musical debochada tern. lotado a casa par 20 anos. Este monument° cultural faz parte da paisagem de San Francisco e precisa ser visto. No Club Fugg.ard.

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