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Shakespeare didn't call his play Shylock: The Jew of Venice. The title character is Antonio, who rashly wagered his flesh as collateral for a loan. Shylock was simply Antonio's banker, whose humiliation--by lovely, quick-witted Portia--is irrelevant to the romantic intriguing that consumes most of the plot. But Shylock's injured majesty and his rough treatment by the play's putative hero and heroine have hijacked The Merchant of Venice and made it a showcase for great actors. In a production in which Laurence Olivier, say, or Dustin Hoffman took on Shylock, does anyone remember...
...record, Jeremy Irons is the melancholy, homoerotic Antonio, and the American Lynn Collins an efficient Portia, in what we may call the Al Pacino Merchant of Venice. Director Michael Radford, going heavily for brooding atmosphere, has shrouded the canal town in dank mists until the Adriatic could be the river Styx. He has also wrapped the play in historical perspective, noting the sorry plight of Jews in 1596 Venice. This makes Shylock's demand for a pound of Christian flesh his righteous revenge for all the spittle and slander he has absorbed. Pacino emphasizes Shylock's gnomish outsider status...
...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed)?which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a $2,650 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January...
...thing about film is that you can show it and cut all that descriptive dialogue and verse. What [director] Michael Radford did with the script was cut about a third without sacrificing the story line. As a result, the story plays much more dramatically. In the film, your character, Antonio, has to spit on Al Pacino's character, Shylock. What was that like? Actually, with the way movies are filmed now, I was spitting on an X-mark in one location and Al was being spit upon by someone else at a different location. The Merchant of Venice is often...
...even more controversial because Sala, it turns out, had an ownership interest in the company formed to handle it. Bank of America says it didn't know that at the time. Sala has been indicted along with two other Milan-based Bank of America bankers. One of them, Antonio Luzi, told magistrates how Sala had given him a total of $900,000 on three separate occasions. Bank of America says that, as Parmalat's second biggest creditor, it is one of the parties most damaged by the fraud--and that it had "absolutely no role in disguising Parmalat's true...