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...well-bred but impoverished young woman, Kate Croy (played by the matchless Helena Bonham-Carter), is confronted with conflicting demands of a secret engagement to a penniless journalist (Linus Roache) and a wealthy aunt who wants her to marry well. Into the midst of this crisis sails Milly Theale (Alison Elliott), an ingenuous American visitor who--in true Jamesian form--happens to be encumbered with an enormous fortune. Milly becomes friends with Kate, but also falls in love with Kate's fiance, Merton Densher, not knowing of the clandestine relationship. She invites him to come with her and Kate...
Harvard took a tenuous 45-44 lead into halftime and could not shake the Slovakian team until late in the second half when Feaster and senior guard Alison Seanor combined on several nice plays to put the game out of reach...
...move from one Eaton Square town house to another. When The Wings of the Dove was offered, she thought, "Oh, not another costume drama--and in the period that I've done to death." True, but Kate, who prods her lover Merton to woo dying American heiress Millie Theale (Alison Elliott), is a more complex lady of breeding. She and Merton recall two other devious Europeans, also out to fleece a rich American girl, in James' The Portrait of a Lady. Here, though, the best role and much of the rooting interest go to the schemer...
...things don't quite pay off: The red flag planted by the speaking Maenad (presumably to signal bloody devastation) might have never been unfurled; the novitiate (Alison Howe on 10/30) sitting on a pillow, singing the Oro supplex, is a bit much. But the production boasts tremendous visual appeal, thanks to a wonderfully spare set by Helen Shaw '98, spiffy costumes by Jessica Jackson '99 and--especially at the play's beginning and end--skillful and tricky lighting, designed by Alan Symonds...
Once one has memorized all the information on the Boston, Miami, London, San Fransisco, Los Angeles and New York casts, it's time to learn a little about Road Rules, the popular Real World spin-off. In Road Rules: Passport Abroad, authors Alison Pollet and Leif Ueland have collected behind-the-scenes gossip and personal information that America has been salivating for ever since it first glimpsed five beautiful young men and women traveling cross-country in their very own Winnebago. Focusing on seasons three and four, Pollet and Ueland summarize the series of missions that the cast members...