Word: cassandras
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...home in Memphis the blue-suede revolutionary was a pussycat with a distinctly warped psyche. His father Vernon Presley was convicted in 1938 of altering a check and sent to prison. The three-year-old Elvis was fiercely coddled by "the Hillbilly Cassandra," his mother Gladys. Until he was eleven, he slept in the same bed with "Satnin'," his baby-talk name for the mother he stroked and petted until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis...
...predict Hollywood's future, it helps to be both Cassandra and John the Baptist. Most of the major directors see a timid few years ahead, followed by the explosion of technological liberation. Benton hopes "Coppola is right: that the software revolution will increase the demand for material and change the structure of film making." Redford is convinced that "with the cable market opening up, we need a larger supply of film makers, a wider range of options." To this end, he has established the Sundance Institute of Film and Video in Provo Canyon, Utah, which holds its first session...
...Margaret died in France even before Richard because king. But Shakespeare brought her into the play with the fourth-largest role. Directors often omit Margaret entirely, as Olivier did in his overpraised film version; but she adds much, in her two substantial scenes, functioning as a sort of combined Cassandra and avenging Fury. Since Margaret is a half-supernatural character, it made sense to cast her here with a foreign-born actress. Viveca Lindfors looks wonderful with her disheveled hair, but the vestiges of a Swedish accent along with a tendency to swallow words make much of her cursing unintelligible...
...Woodward), who now rules the land as a tyrant. He is intimately linked to the origin of the curse on the House of Atreus. All too soon the cries of horror sound as if from some echo chamber in hell. The fates are inexorable: the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra are eventually hurled onto the stage like the carcasses of animals, and Clytemnestra emerges spattered with blood. As she drapes Cassandra's arm over Agamemnon's shoulder, one wonders whether she murdered him for sacrificing their daughter or for bringing his concubine home...
Then you ask help in making your predictions come true. What is such a big deal about predictions coming true? Maybe you will remember, Cassandra's predictions all came true. A lot of good that...