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...innocent alike. When the movie begins, the police had been losing nearly all of their informers. It is removed that they had, intentionally set up the last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom...
...Opera News, have gone ahead to construct a convoluted second chapter that picks up 30 years later, just after Dinah's death in a suicidal, drunken car crash. There are now ten characters instead of two: the couple's son Junior (Baritone Timothy Nolen) and daughter Dede (Soprano Sheri Greenawald, in an outstanding performance); Dede's bisexual husband François (Tenor Peter Kazaras), who was formerly Junior's lover; Dinah's brother; her best friend Susie; an analyst; the family doctor and his wife; a funeral director; and, of course, Sam (Baritone Chester Ludgin...
...nasty little kids--the kind who populate his books--who play at making a movie, and, in the process, take turns presenting "screen test" sequences which digress into the characters' original tales. Not that much in the way of either tales or transitions survives. The kids' ringleader is Rosie (Dede Schmeiser), who spends most of her time fantasizing about the terrible things that may have happened to her little brother, Chicken Soup (Steve Gutwillig), who tags along after her by parental edict. One hanger-on is named Alligator (Valerie Gilbert)--she's the one who sings the alphabet solo, which...
With a relatively small cast, in which several chorus members also play minor roles, director John Ashworth has managed to fuse ancient with modern. His two leads, Dionysus (Dede Schmeiner) and Nanthias (David de Berker) as the god and her servant, each display distinctive brands of comedy. Schmeiner makes her Dionysus an impish figure, a lusty Peter Pan, while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their...
...sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard Sylbert to Editors Dede Allen and Craig McKay. This is a young man's movie, vi tal, confident, itching to meet the challenges of life...