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...locks tumbling down her back, she was the essence of pouty innocence in Roman Polanski's Tess. Well, take another look, because in Francis Coppola's upcoming musical One from the Heart, set in the Las Vegas world of neon nights, Actress Nastassia Kinski, 20, plays a circus performer with the wily ways of a seductress twice her age. Heart is being billed as "a fantasy about love, jealousy and sex." From the look of things, Nastassia fills the bill...
Seven spinning columns of fire light the late night sky as the Back Alley Street Circus performs the grand finale of its Saturday evening juggling show. "Thought you had the good seats, didn't you," shouts Ned Van Alstyne at the closest onlookers. A bit worried, one boy jumps up from his spot on the Brattle Square traffic island and hurries across the street toward Bailey's. Van Alstyne and his partner finish their startling display, extinguish the last flaming baton, and begin circulating their matching black derbies among the applauding crowd of 100 people...
...traveling publicity circus of Modena's other great singer born in 1935, Pavarotti. "I am very happy for Luciano, he is like a brother to me. But it is not my character. I like my privacy. I enjoy singing, I enjoy creating something with my voice. But when it is finished, it is finished." The great American hype machine is wasted on Mirella Freni...
Kate Edmund's set is the other unalloyed success of the evening. A.R.T. subscribers horrified at the high-tech circus of Lulu or put off by the gloomy Brechtian neon of Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year will be happy to hear that Figaro is staged straight, with period costumes by Rita Ryack. But the traditional mise-en-scene does not petrify the show. Edmunds has placed the Countess's bedroom, the courtroom, and the other havens of aristocracy underneath a patently fake proscenium, upstage; in the wings, stretching around the audience are the kitchens, dressing rooms and lofts...
DIED. Jim Davis, 67, gruff, rangy character actor who played Jock Ewing, the oil-baron patriarch on TV's top-rated Dallas; after surgery for a perforated ulcer: in Los Angeles, Calif. Davis, who worked as a circus tent rigger and construction laborer before catching on as a western type in Hollywood in the 1940s, was not in Dallas' final episode of the current season, which aired last week. There are no plans to recast Jock Ewing, who will be written out of the show before shooting for the new season begins this month...