The 10 men and two women were shown part of a programme on Tuesday about a property she owned called Purple Rose House.

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In Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cario, " he played a matinee idol who walks off the movie screen and into the real world with Mia Farrow.

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After all, he'd just had an enormous success in Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo, " with Mr. Allen going so far as to compare him to Cary Grant.

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Take "The Purple Rose of Cairo, " a Depression-era saga about an abused woman who watches a movie repeatedly until its hero comes down off the screen and romances her.

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The other surprise, a small presentation also at MILK Studios, was a label called Calla characterized by bold prints in geometric in neon yellow and purple. (It also smelled like a rose-filled winter garden inside, courtesy olfactory branding company 12.29.) The silk-screened slim-fit pants, cute above-the-knee dresses, and thick PVC heels worked well together with tiny T-shirt-cut tops and softly angled jackets.

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As the sun rose that Easter Sunday, he put on that purple stole and led dozens of prisoners to the ruins of an old church in the camp.

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His gifts as a colorist are obvious in paintings that range from orchestrations of brooding "noncolors" off-blacks, infinitely varied grays, luminous browns to explosions of delectable chroma: salmon pink, tender rose, subtle greens, acid yellow, plum purple, ethereal blues.

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