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...Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart called their script "a scenario for vaudevillians." Zaks' triumph is to pay homage to the days of Yiddish slapstick while using actors too young to have played the Catskills. Luckily, he has Nathan Lane as Pseudolus, the role created by Zero Mostel. Though only 40 and only Irish, Lane is the mystic repository of the ancients' physical gag bag. A double take is concrete poetry when he does it, and a pratfall a plie. He also elevates some of his more plebeian colleagues. Mark Linn-Baker, no natural farceur, is at first uneasy...
...friends' and allies' support in that endeavor instead of going it alone. In the more sensitive area of human rights, a breakthrough will probably have to await the arrival of a new generation of leaders in Beijing, but the U.S. should acknowledge whatever little progress China has made. Says Burt Levin, a veteran China analyst and former U.S. diplomat: "Chinese citizens have greater freedom today than they have had in 50 years. To be oblivious to that is foolish." Comprehensive engagement, sums up Secretary of Defense William Perry, "does not mean that the U.S. will acquiesce to [Chinese] actions with...
...Nazi occupiers (Lacombe, Lucien, 1974) and child prostitution (1978's Pretty Baby, his first American film, which also launched Brooke Shields). Yet Malle's high-voltage subject matter contrasted with an often reflective style that reached its apex in his second American film Atlantic City (1981), which starred Burt Lancaster as an aging hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that had eluded him in his youth. His oddest film was 1981's My Dinner with Andre, a 110-minute conversation in which two friends wrestle with transcendent issues and nouvelle cuisine. But Malle called Au Revoir les Enfants...
...sides of the Atlantic, Malle feelingly but frankly explored such difficult topics as incest (1971's "Le Souffle En Coeur") and child prostitution ("Pretty Baby", his 1978 American debut). Yet his high-voltage subjects contrasted with an often reflective style, captured in his stateside success "Atlantic City" (1980), starring Burt Lancaster as an aging hood, and 1981's "My Dinner with Andre", in which two friends wrestle over the earthly, the transcendent, and some painfully nouvelle cuisine. Malle called "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (1988), an autobiographical account of Jewish children hiding from the Holocaust at a French Catholic School...
...charged by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, grazing rights that in turn can be sold for several times their cost to private grazers. Sounds like a government handout to me. Carver chose his life-style of self-sufficiency. Fine. Stop whining about it then. BURT BRADLEY, Decatur, Georgia...