Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by Sandra Burton, Douglas Waller, Mark Thompson/Washington, Barbara Rudolph/New York and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Zagreb
...Wellman's "A Murder of Crows," we are presented with the Phillips clan--Southern, rural, brutal--at their nadir. Nella (Alexandra Marolachakis) is widowed after her husband dies in a freak accident; she and her children, Susannah and Andrew (Rebecca Wolfe and Dan Goor), are forced to move in with their seamy relatives, who spend most of their time either bickering or at the racetrack...
...Belle et la Bete, however, goes one audacious step further. The whole 1946 film, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day, is projected on a screen, with English subtitles but without its sound track. Flanked by a seven-piece band of winds and synthesizers (one played by Glass himself), Alexandra Montano (la Belle), Hallie Neill, Gregory Purnhagen (la Bete) and Zheng Zhou stand beneath the screen singing Glass's operatic setting of the script. Glass not only had to get the rights to the film, he also had to pay not to use composer Georges Auric's score; and while...
Reported by Jay Branegan/Brussels, James L. Graff/Vienna, J.F.O. McAllister/ Washington, and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Zagreb, with other bureaus...
...often intuition proves true. The world, after all, really did not need book and movie versions of Oliver's Story or the films The Godfather III and Police Academy II through VII. Nor did the world hold its breath for the onset, in 1991, of Scarlett, romance writer Alexandra Ripley's 823-page follow-up to Gone With the Wind. Columnist Molly Ivins spoke for most reviewers when she wrote, "I have nothing against trashy books -- I like good trash -- but this is dreadful...