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When it isn't taking its subject too seriously, The Last Don is more amusing than the rest of this month's mini-series. Where else can we find Daryl Hannah playing an actress named Athena Aquitane who stars in a $50 million feminist action flick directed by k.d. lang...
...Clericuzio-controlled Xanadu Hotel in Las Vegas, and ruthless Eli Marrion, geriatric head of LoddStone Studios, are, like the Don, the novel's honored guests. Puzo's younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate. A hit man, perversely named Dante, wears gaudy Renaissance-style hats and takes too much pleasure in his work...
...Athena L. Trattner '96 said she is not quite as optimistic. "I think the standard of living will probably remain about the same," she said...
...Harvard Square debut, she says, "Iwasn't that good. I could sing, but I didn't knowhow to do a show or the ins and outs of gettinggood spots." She would play for hours to crowdsthat never seemed to gather. Athena had vowed tostay out until eleven every night, and graduallyinitiated herself into the sphere of successfulstreet performers. She reflects on her adjustingperiod, "At one point I composed songs to sing toCappy's window," her most appreciative audience...
...Coats claims the jugglers are her favorites because they're funny." She also likes "some guy named Eric who ran away from Ireland when he was a kid and now plays folk on the street." She also likes Athena, who plays folk, though Coats has heard her "singing the theme to the Brady Bunch...