Word: diana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OPERA Company runs into occasional problems. John Davies doesn't really have the voice for Bartolo's lowest notes. Diana Hoagland more than rises to the occasion of the Countess's big third-act aria, but some of her earlier attempts at acting seem a good bit closer to Lucia's madness than Rosina's anger. Sunday night's orchestra didn't seem to approve of them, either--the strings swung briefly out of tune for the introduction to her first aria, something that didn't happen again until the whole orchestra--previously more than competent--began to fall apart...
...raised by Mrs. Adamson's elaborate efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into a kind of feline Lassie, roaming the remoter reaches of the green hills of Kenya, where she can weekly rescue or be rescued by the guest stars. As the Adamsons, Diana Muldaur and Gary Collins provide the discreet exposition linking Elsa's exploits together. Muldaur is also required to voice-over a narration that weekly spells out whatever moral Elsa's behavior has pointed up. On these occasions, one cannot help wishing that Mr. Ed, TV's departed...
...team may not "bust up" Dillon, but it's sure to overcome its 4-6 record of last year, with Matson returning at goalie, Karen Linsley at inner, Nancy Sato at center half, Diana Finch at halfback, and what Matson describes as "the best looking team in 73 years...
...script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile a lot. "That smile of his is simply a killer," says Nicholson's friend Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue, who ought to know a little something about smiles. "Jack must know it's devastating, because he uses it very rarely...
...entertainments. Director Roley does not enhance audience involvement by shooting everything through a diffusion filter. Obviously derived from The Birds, Chosen Survivors is also strictly for them. Or maybe for the made-for-TV movie market, where most of the cast - Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Diana Muldaur - customarily find work...