Word: artagnan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vincent on Camelback, has developed a line of "heart-smart" game entrees. Once chefs % had to scramble to find a brace of partridge or pheasant. Not anymore. Game suppliers and game farms have sprung up across the country to meet the demand for everything from antelope to zebra. D'Artagnan in Jersey City sells two kinds of venison and four different varieties of duck, as well as fresh grouse, wood pigeon and pheasant from Scotland. Five years ago, D'Artagnan was pulling in $500,000 annually; this year it will do $7 million in business...
...Filmmaker Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 51, is no exception. He once wanted to make a movie of Cyrano de Bergerac in the U.S.S.R., but authorities turned down the plan. Now he is in California trying to sell Hollywood capitalists on his latest project: a movie about the last years of D'Artagnan and the aging three musketeers. The creator of the 1984 Soviet film Kindergarten describes his new script as a "sparkling tragedy" about the "relationship of heroic people with the Establishment. I think the majority of humanity are unrealized musketeers." He talked to Jack Nicholson about playing D'Artagnan...
Karen Allen's Helen is a mountain brook washing over shining pebbles of self-discovery with a child's delight and limpid innocence. As for Converse-Roberts' John, he is a kind of D'Artagnan, fencing for his life, shielding his love against his love. Among them, Playwright Gibson, Director Arthur Penn and the entire cast ignite one of those blazing bonfires that keep serious dramatic theater inextinguishable...