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...announcing itself in his watercolor drawing of a Jewish bride in Tangier, whose costume, in all its fantastic profusion of embroidery, overlays and gold jewelry, is suggested in a few washes of pink, vermilion, blue and yellow. He developed it to full pitch in the oil paintings he did later in his Paris studio. It would lead to the packed density of pattern-on-pattern in Women of Algiers (1834) and receive its homages from both Matisse and Picasso...
There's no guise -- fighting feminist or yuppie careerist, prudish housewife | or pouty adolescent, barroom slut or abused bride -- that Bridget won't assume to win this game. Her quick changes are funny. So is her chilly single- mindedness. And so is the eagerness of males, stupefied by lust, to be taken in by her. Fiorentino is ferociously good in the role. If first-time screenwriter Steve Barancik conceived it as a parody of have-it-all feminism, this actress doesn't acknowledge it. She's after the humor of humorlessness, the nuttiness of self-interest untrammeled by sentiment...
...Charles, it appears, was never in love with Diana. He claims to have entered the marriage under severe pressure from his father Prince Philip, who is depicted as a bully with a scathing tongue, easily capable, when Charles was a child, of reducing him to tears. In having a bride thrust upon him, Charles felt "ill used and impotent." His mother was remote and passive, usually leaving family matters to her husband. Along the way, institutions come in for criticism: Gordonstoun School -- picked, of course, by Philip -- was for Charles a hell of hazing and teasing. And the media never...
Come on, now! Edward D. Wood Jr. is not nearly the world's worst director. Lots of people made movies that were even more desperately inept and ludicrous. It's true that Wood's cheap '50s exploitation films -- the heartfelt expose Glen or Glenda, the octopus-wrangling horror movie Bride of the Monster and the sci-fi anticlassic Plan 9 from Outer Space -- boasted floridly awful dialogue and actors who seemed terrified to be on camera. But Wood had passion, ambition and, as a heterosexual who enjoyed wearing women's clothes, a very chic identity crisis. His films were about...
...Bell sports an impressive basso profundo, but spoils Ol' Man River with a needlessly mannered performance.) Still, it is a relative nonsinger, John McMartin as Cap'n Andy, who is the surprising hit of the show: his desperate reenactment of the interrupted play-within-a-play, The Parson's Bride, is a comic highlight that stays in the mind the way Ol' Man River stays...