Now, one of my earliest impressions of Brazil was a movie I saw with my mother as a very young child, a movie called Black Orpheus, that is set in the favelas of Rio during Carnival.

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"My father, to me, was 10 feet tall, " says Frazier, whose mother died when he was very young.

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