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...Agog at the Fogg...
...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
...were agog. His twin (ha!) brother asked, "What might this be regarding...
...production of La Traviata. The pair have been together ever since, as inseparable as two can be who must manage separate singing careers; they plan to marry in the next couple of weeks. "It's destiny," Alagna cries. "Very good destiny!" Naturally, the romance has the music world agog and has led to catty backstage gossip about the deals and schemes that envy often inspires...
...easy to see why people who make their living studying Michelangelo and Shakespeare should be agog at the possibility of more material to occupy their attention. But perhaps the marble Cupid's imaginary puzzlement may be shared by flesh-and-blood mortals with no vested career interests in the matter. What indeed is going on here...