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...each partner a hint of madness, then suggests how hard it is to distinguish between madness and vision. Ron Rifkin, who had a career-transforming success in The Substance of Fire, is even better in Three Hotels. Christine Lahti gives the less nuanced role of the wife an eerie blend of wit, charm and detachment...
Forget the word circus; it conjures up nothing more magical than slapstick and animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
...sexual favors sounds as natural as a gift for home cooking. It's not a tease, it's a forthrightly bountiful offer that could set a fellow to swooning. Dolly's giggle, the chirp at the end of a sultry line, proves that her sensuality is guileless -- a neat blend of Daisy Mae and Mae West...
...Today, thanks to a few good-hearted citizens in Ruston, Louisiana, who are raising $50,000 to cover their tuition and expenses for four years, Gvozdikova and her twin sister are enrolled at Louisiana Tech University. "When I left last July," explains Gvozdikova, who so wants to blend into America that she calls herself Nancy, "I thought things couldn't be worse. Most anything worth buying was stolen and sold on the black market. A kilo of butter cost 400 rubles. Today, my mother just wrote, it's up to 800 rubles. How can she afford it? My parents earn...
...three actresses who gave terrific performances in high-earning movies: Pfeiffer, poignant and powerful as the mouse turned tiger (I am Catwoman, hear me roar) in Batman Returns; Meryl Streep, devastatingly funny as a star facing middle age in Death Becomes Her; and Sharon Stone, her sensuality a tantalizing blend of glamour and horror, in Basic Instinct. But Oscar, a gentleman and a liberal, prefers women's roles that are role models. He might feel uneasy citing actresses whose characters tread the minefield that separates traditional femininity and modern feminism. "The general feeling," says director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes...