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Some of those who attended shelled out $5000 for a special "angel plate," for which they received a golden angel complete with rhinestone halo and crimson "H" emblazoned on its chest...
...cream of central Europe at the time: Schwarzkopf, regal but warm in what was her greatest role; Jurinac, an ardent youthful swain; Rothenberger, silvery voiced and breathtakingly beautiful; and Edelmann, a bumptious hick from the sticks. Karajan's mastery of the score so gloriously displayed on his 1957 Angel recording with Schwarzkopf is evident in every energized...
...reported $40,000 to Mark Hofmann, 30, a shadowy, highly successful dealer in Mormon documents, for an 1830 manuscript known as the "White Salamander Letter." Written by a disciple of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, it says Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon came not from an angel of God, as is accepted, but from "an old spirit (which) transfigured himself from a white salamander...
Frontier life proves a stern test for believers and infidels alike. The only serene person in the tiny settlement is John Chapman, who is a disciple of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and labors under an angel's commandment to plant apple trees. He will later enter American legend under the name Johnny Appleseed, but for now he serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing...
...script is not Close's only problem here. She is also grossly miscast. She is by far too wholesome and maternal looking to be convincingly sexy as Maxie. In The Natural, she was an angel; in Garp, she was immaculately conceived. Thus, when Close slinks around a piano cooing "Bye Bye Blackbird," it's kind of disturbing, like watching your mother do a striptease...