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...equal, as a transmitter of (sometimes unbearable) reality, to that of the novelist or poet; the camera replaced the draftsman in reportage. This was new. American public culture was now driven by technique--the skills that built bridges and docks and railroads, the scientific laws that underwrote Americans' conquest of their environment. There was no ghost in the machine, only the machine itself...
...ancient Chinese thought they were celestial brooms wielded by the gods to sweep the heavens free of evil. In the West they were believed to presage the fall of Jerusalem, the death of monarchs and such anomalies as two-headed calves. The Norman Conquest of England was attributed to the 1066 flyby of Halley's, history's most famous comet, which has been linked to everything from Julius Caesar's assassination to the defeat of Attila the Hun. Told that Earth would pass through Halley's tail during its 1910 visit, many Americans panicked and bought gas masks and "comet...
...daughter. Monterone responds by cursing Rigoletto, praying that he may know first-hand a father's misery. Of course, the curse comes true, for the duke has already espied Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda from afar. Not knowing who she is, he proceeds to make her his next conquest...
...Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor) that Marlon Brando forever stamped on the role. But who needs another Brando imitation? Stephens' Stanley is a credible alternative: a cocky bantamweight, less Brando than Cagney. And if his climactic sexual conquest of Blanche is more like a grapefruit in the face than the shattering of a deluded woman's life, the approach makes Stanley less of a monster--and more of a plausible match for Stella, played with unusual strength and spunk by Imogen Stubbs...
...teenager in 1936 Eva makes her first conquest, the troubadour Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), whom she accompanies to Buenos Aires, a glittering Hollywood of hope for Eva. Her gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young...