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...which she stars as a subdued, fragile and fearful wife, opened in Paris last week, and this week she starts filming Love at First Sight, a story of World War I. Some scenes will be shot at Maxim's, where Deneuve's two lovers, a French aristocrat (Philippe Noiret) and his German cousin (Sam Waterston), meet to celebrate her birthday. Deneuve is happy with her "beautiful part...
Stephen Toope handles the young, bumbling Pierre, an aristocrat who cannot seem to find his niche in life, with just the right touch of humor. But when the script calls for stature to compensate for its lack of explanation, Toope flounders and the events cease to make sense. In the novel, Pierre, a self-proclaimed "military observer," realizes there is only confusion on the battlefield and in this admission of his impotence, there is strength. In the play, however, Pierre simulates the battle, moving model soldiers across a lighted destiny stage as the generals yell and cannonballs whistle and burst...
SOMETIME IN the early 1850s, a young, sharp-witted Paris aristocrat, more or less in training to take over the family banking business, declared to his father that he planned to cast aside the family expectations and enroll full time in an art studio. He had been frittering away his university career sketching copies of the masters in the Louvre, and had cultivated a special passion for the work of Ingres, the skillful draftsman whose flawless style dominated the fifties' neo-classical vogue...
...Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product of Tom Fuller's law firm summer. It's about a Victorian gentleman thief who goes to a country house to steal jewels and runs off with the daughter of the aristocrat who owns the estate instead. Although Softly Speaking stands apart as one of the few originals in a season of adaptations, at least in name, Fuller's play has a decidedly Gilbertian...
Last week's subpoenas sought the records of two I.L.A. chiefs: William E. Boyle of Miami and Anthony Scotto of Brooklyn. A polished and urbane operator, Scotto is something of an aristocrat in the union, having visited the White House during the Lyndon Johnson era. Eight years ago, the Justice Department identified Scotto as a Mafia capo (captain)-a charge that Scotto has steadfastly denied...