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...Arizona Dream" recalls the current musical "Sunset Boulevard": Dunaway's aging beauty seduces Depp's innocence, only to be duped by him later. Though "Dream" predates Dunaway's dismissal from the New York production of "Sunset," her Elaine gives us insight into her much-discussed potential as screen-diva Norma Desmond. Dunaway's Elaine is stronger than Norma, escaping into her Hollywood fantasies, ever could be. She conceals a murderous tendency behind her spitfire facade...
...descended a precarious flight of stairs to a dark, low-ceilinged room. Sitting on rickety wooden chairs, squeezed in along scarred red leather banquettes, they heard, over six nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder, the late Max Gordon, asked the professor whether he thought...
...their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese ``looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint of the '40s,'' shrugs Del Monaco. ``But Pinkerton was an ugly American who was drunk and excited...
...their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese "looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint of the '40s," shrugs Del Monaco. "But Pinkerton was an ugly American who was drunk and excited...
...massacre. There is an amusing bit where Margot, who refuses to consummate the marriage with Henri, goes out into the street to look for a man with whom to spend her wedding night. She wanders exquisitely lit rues wearing an indigo cloak and a domino, a man hungry diva on the hunt. The camp value of the scene cannot be underestimated. She runs into La Mole, a sensitive Protestant stud (Vincent Perez, last seen warming the cockles of Catherine Deneuve's heart in "Indochine") and has passionate sex against an alley wall with...