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...relief to say that Alan Parker's film, which opens on Christmas Day, is a pretty damn fine one, well cast and handsomely visualized--easily the best adaptation of a Broadway-style musical in decades. It is faithful to the sting and breadth of Tim Rice's libretto, to the ravishing Andrew Lloyd Webber score that synthesizes Broadway, opera and pop with the lilt of Latino lounge music. But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart...
...Alan Leo contributed to this story's reporting...
Kerrey did not discuss the "specific proposal" he and retiring Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) have prepared regarding changes in Social Security and Medicare but instead described present-day problems that the proposal addresses...
...only candidates who have political pasts and widespread name-recognition on campus. As a result, these are the only candidates who now appear to have a legitimate chance of victory. Inevitably, judgment calls were made, but this is not unusual. Bob Dole got a lot more campaign coverage than Alan Keyes...
...luck of the draw, the cast included two actors, Goldie Hawn and Alan Alda, who had singing experience. Another, Drew Barrymore, pleaded that she was "beneath the human limit" of musical competence, so Allen hired a nonprofessional to dub her voice. But the rest of the cast was both untutored and game, and the result is one of the nerviest experiments yet for a filmmaker who has already tried everything from surrealist fantasy to Ingmar Bergman homage...