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...Stewart is one of the two or three finest and most popular of the current crop of English pop composer-singers, a wise, witty, upbeat force who neatly counterpoints Mick Jagger's pervading and well-publicized sympathy for the devil. As a soloist, Stewart displays one of those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort...
Ingmar Bergman is no longer making films about God and the devil, or expressionistic jousts between man and the unknown. A new Bergman movie is apt to seem more like a simple cry for human understanding. Mellower than he used to be, Bergman at the same time is perhaps even more prolific, and within the next few months his new concern with people will be seen not only in a new film, but on the stage, on television and in print...
...child dresses in twenties style and is chauffeured about in an elderly limousine. Charles too is impressed into this pattern of dress and life, and into total submission to the father. Theo wants to make the finest moment of his life last forever--the same pleasure with which the devil tempted Faust from...
...shimmering new Hoffmann that Director Tito Capobianco has conceived and staged for the New York City Opera, it is neither the tenor nor the soprano who steals the show. Instead it is the bass, who plays the four incarnations of the devil. No surprise, since the roles are sung by that master of operatic guises and disguises Norman Treigle. By design, and also by the sheer magic of Treigle's acting, this Hoffmann is a black comedy that belongs-curly locks, shtik and fiddle-to the devil...
...which Lucifer tries to wheedle power from God seem facile and merely clever, but toward the end he makes us question the justice of a God who, with full foreknowledge, tempts Cain to kill Abel. Played as a pretty-boy smart-ass by the top-billed Hal Holbrook, the Devil resembles a cross between a quick-talking, shifty-eyed lawyer and a slightly hip John Wayne. Holbrook appears appropriately serpentine even as he swaggers with self-esteem, but perhaps he could temper his over-confidence a little, considering he flubbed his lines at least three times on the second night...