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[email protected]. Eastern r---r-. Illinois rv7/c1\VY7~ ............ _... Universi!Y_______ LJ\J__ JL.:J __ W__ tt:J__ _ BoARD OF GOVERNO RS U NtVERSmES SHELLY FLOCK, Director of Information Public Affairs, Charleston, IL 61920 Office: (217) 581-5983 - Home: (217) 253-2082 94-313 November 11, 1994 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MOVIE CELEBRATES LATINO WOMEN CHARLESTON -- The role of women in Latin American Society is the theme of the feature film The House of the Spirits to be presented on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. in Eastern Illinois University's Booth Library Lecture Hall. The film, free and open to the public, is being sponsored by Eastern's Women's Studies Council in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 - Oct. 15. The outstanding cast of this recent movie, released in the spring of 1994, includes Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Band- eras and Vanessa Redgrave. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by the internationally acclaimed Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, whose books have been translated into 27 languages.