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...governess, Nan Hughes gives the best performance of the evening. Her clear, beautiful voice and effectively expressed character speak of a matronly yet passionate nature. She doesn't need to use extraneous actions to reveal her character. In one remarkably clever bit of business, the governess narrates a silent film in which her two young charges--the young princesses--meet and repel an undesirable man. With her magnificent voice leading the miming of the other actors behind a screen lit by flashing light, we momentarily forget that anyone else has to sing. Unfortunately, we can't forget for long...
JENSEN FARLEY PICTURES' animated fairy tale The Last Unicorn confirms, by default, that only Walt Disney had what it takes. Although Unicorn contains some innovatively clever characters, the piece as a whole lacks the fluidity of images, the magnificance of each character's movements, and the timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...
...lawyers called the tall, gaunt ex-CIA agent "the spy who was left out in the cold." His multimillion-dollar gunrunning operation to Libyan terrorists, they argued, was nothing more than a clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours...
...bureaucratic ladder, he earned a degree in engineering. Somehow he escaped the great purges of 1937-38 that sent tens of thousands of party officials to their deaths. Whether he actively took part in those purges is unclear. Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam concludes that Brezhnev was "clever as well as lucky; at a time when people in the party hierarchy were being liquidated right and left, he not only survived but prospered...
...Maybe I made a mistake in my career years ago," says Prey, 53, reflectively. "I should probably have switched to more dramatic roles earlier." Outstanding as the guileless Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the rakish Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and the clever Figaro in both Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Prey has unwillingly become typecast as an operatic nice guy. It is understandable. Who can see him as a villain...