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Many of Evita's failings are a function of Rice's libretto, which never aspires to much more than a comic-book version of history. The author dutifully chronicles Evita's impoverished youth, her Buenos Aires radio career and her rise to power once married to Colonel Juan Perón (Joss Ackland). But Rice's point of view on his heroine is pure show biz; he's so agog he might as well be describing the career of Judy Garland. By the time Evita dies of cancer at age 33, we know...
...paper, Julia sounds like an exemplary American film. In sharp contrast to most current big-budget movies, it trades in serious ideas rather than comic-book fantasies, and it even has the guts to buck Hollywood's longstanding embargo on heroines by starring two strong, intelligent women who care about other things than men. Since they are played by Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, it's hard to imagine how Julia could fail -but fail, to a sad extent, it does. For all the taste, talent and money that have been lavished on this film, it is stubbornly...
Died. Joe Musial, 72, cartoonist who pioneered the use of comic books as teaching aids and drew the Katzenjammer Kids for the past 25 years; after a long illness; in Manhasset, N.Y. Musial took over Rudolph Dirks' comic strip featuring the terrible Teutonic twins in 1952 and, as art director of King Features' comic-book division, was also a ghost artist for many other series...
Mayer uses the plight of the aging comic-book hero to parody most of what characterizes America and everything that makes up New York. Shortly after the novel begins, chaos strikes the bankrupt Metropolis. The unpaid and overworked police force have resigned en masse and looting, rape and murder pervade. Brinkley, watching football, curses his bookie and tries to ignore the city's crisis until the fateful thought strikes him, "Is it a conspiracy?" Needless to say, it is. And Brinkley plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife...
...People's Almanac was a publishing coup brought off by Irving and David last year. While most reference books go on the shelf, this one was off the wall. Its 1,478 pages included biographies of comic-book characters, every obscure fact and factoid that could be assembled-and a series of unique lists ("15 renowned redheads," "nine breeds of dog that bite the most"). It was this section that proved the Almanac's most popular category...