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Article: SUFFERING, STARVATION - AND MUSIC.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
HELEN COLIJN, 76, looks at ``Paradise Road'' with no tears in her eyes.
She has been there - and survived.
The film, currently in local movie theaters, tells the unblinking story of British, Dutch, Australian and American women held prisoner by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It features beatings, starvation and torture mixed liberally with a good deal of courage, hope, and even music. It is based on Colijin's memoir ``Song of Survival: Women Interned.''
Held for 3 1/2 years, the Dutch woman, who now lives near San Francisco, is a 6-foot-tall, grey-haired picture of gentility today ...