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Article: INTERVIEW: Van Peebles transcends Hollywood with 'War Letters'
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- February 22, 2002
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(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- If he's not behind the camera
or pictured on screen, Mario Van Peebles can be found amid stage curtains,
delivering letters for his new project.
Along with currently playing Malcolm X in the Golden Globe-nominated
film "Ali," Van Peebles leads an ensemble cast in "War Letters," a
new play based on Andrew Carroll's best-selling book of the same title.
The production allows the actors to give a voice to letters written
by soldiers, combat journalists and nurses, among others, from the
Civil War to the present conflict in Afghanistan. Van Peebles and
company rekindle these memories at the Canon Theatre in Beverly ...