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...think all these cancellations are making the team more ambitious," Co-Captain Chad Prusmack said. "It's like restraining a caged beast...
...February). A reference to the new decade always sounds impressive ("the love story of the '90s"). Gary Franklin, of Los Angeles' KCOP-TV, grades films on a 1-to-10 scale that can no longer contain his ecstasy. Chaplin and Alive! recently got a 10+, and Beauty and the Beast even managed an 11. Pat Collins, who reviews for New Jersey's WWOR-TV, gushes that Falling Down is "the first real movie of the '90s," thus raising the question of what she considered A Few Good Men (other than "brilliant") and Forever Young ("forever romantic...
...Jean Marais. Cocteau was blessed to have two such accomplished actors playing the lead roles. Day, with her delicate cheekbones and tremulous lovliness, is radiant; the other-wordly image of Beauty in a dark cloak stays in one's memory for days. Marais is triumphant as the Beast. In Berard's makeup and ornate costumes, he displays a flair not present in any of his other performances. He looks at once noble and ridiculous, menacing and silly, and his resonant, incantatory voice is unforgettable...
...story has it that, upon seeing the Beast turn into the affable, if somewhat bland, prince (played again by Marais), Greta Garbo exclaimed, "Give me back my Beast!" It is true that the wholesome prince is no compensation for the loss of the Beast, and Marais looks diminished without the leonine make-up and trailing cloak. Fortunately, this section of the film doesn't last too long...
...Grimm's tales. It is perhaps the most sumptuous and satisfying version of a fairy tale ever put on celluloid, candy for the eyes and a banquet for the aesthete. Above all, it is a swooningly romantic film graced with many visual miracles. And, like love, "Beauty and the Beast" is a dream from which you never want to wake...