Scene from Stealing Chaplin. Fair use.
British director Paul Tanter’s droll
Stealing Chaplin may be a comedy that will keep audiences laughing from beginning to end. Still, the other movie it reminds me of is screenwriter Kemp Powers’s
One Night in Miami. Although the latter is a heavy-hitting drama, the fanciful stories of both
Miami and
Stealing are loosely inspired by real-life events. In the case of the former, following his 1964 championship bout with Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali really did spend much of the rest of the evening with Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a Miami motel room. Little is known of what those titans said and did that evening. Still, this actual, historic incident kindled Powers’s powers of imagination to conjure up what may have come to pass, which was dramatized on stage by L.A.’s Rogue Machine in 2013 and onscreen last year.
Burkina Faso: Camillians ministering to the afflicted of leprosy
Hansen’s disease, better known as leprosy, is an illness that many people think has been eradicated and no longer exists.
English Africa Service Vatican News.
Pope Francis’ solidarity on World Leprosy Day
On Sunday Pope Francis expressed his closeness to all those who suffer from Hansen’s disease – better known as leprosy – on World Leprosy Day, which is observed each year on the last Sunday in January to increase public awareness of the condition. The Holy Father also offered words of encouragement to missionaries, health workers, and volunteers committed to serving those affected by the disease.
31 Jan 2021 / 11:05 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: The stigma and discrimination against leprosy are among problems still faced by lepers who eventually contribute to the spread of the disease in the community, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. (pix)
He said this negative view caused patients and their close contacts to not only refuse to go to the clinic, but they also refused to be screened and treated for leprosy.
“Let us work together to eradicate or reduce the stigma and discrimination, which are believed to be one of the causes of the spread of leprosy among family members and community in endemic localities in Malaysia,“ he said in a statement issued in conjunction with World Leprosy Day 2021, themed “Together Stop Leprosy”.