Portraits for this article© 1988 by Kevin Smith

May 9, 1998, the week before Cannes. A gray, misty Monday morning in Central Park, across the street from the Mayflower Hotel. Exiled South African writer Shawn Slovo has just returned from a screening tour of A World Apart. As we walk down the narrow twisty path, Shawn tells me how responses to the film differed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and amongst men and women. After a while, we reach a dark green wooden bench overlooking a sandy baseball field where kids are playing. We stop.

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Issue 25 Fall 1988