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DIED. JORGE AMADO, 88, celebrated Brazilian writer whose 32 books were translated into some 50 languages; in Salvador, Brazil. His early novels, which often took swipes at Brazilian politicians, landed the author in prison and exile in the 1940s. Years later, his bawdier novels, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), were turned into movies...
...Dolly is different this time around. "She is bawdier, franker, sexier," says Channing in the gauzy drawl that has launched a thousand impersonators. Sitting in her hotel suite, wearing a navy blue Ralph Lauren military-style tunic and cream-colored slacks, she leans forward earnestly. Head atilt, unrelentingly wide-eyed, she explains: "The audience has changed and I've changed." If Channing has to work harder to achieve what she did more easily 30 years ago, then work she does. "I'll go to my grave remembering the tears and laughs I didn't get," she says. There were plans...
...rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura is able to evoke a society in transition to modernism, folk culture mingling with pop culture, myth blending with imagery from the movies...
Tabloid TV programs have been bawdier -- and scrappier. After A Current Affair ballyhooed upcoming videotape of a call girl plying her trade with a bare-bottomed customer, said to be Fisher and a john, the competing Hard Copy aired a smidgen of the scene half an hour sooner, allegedly swiping it off a satellite feed. This prompted a lively melee over journalistic ethics in two corners not normally thought to possess many...
...best performance of the evening is turned in by Jon Tolins as Angelo D'Ethe. As an incorporeal spirit, Tolins slides through the action all evening, providing more than a few scene-stealing bits and a constant, classy counterpoint to the bawdier action at center stage...