Word: divas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adriatic. And this resplendent collection of egocentrics and neurasthenics is here to see that her wish is fulfilled with due theatrical effect and a sufficiency of false emotion. As they see it, the death of one obscure archduke is inconsequential in comparison to the loss of the diva. Indeed, they have an archduke of their very own aboard, grossly overweight, of garbled sexuality, and attended by a large and mysterious retinue...
Galas. Or: The Life and Hard Times of Maria Callas. Leave it to off-off-Broadway's Charles Ludlam-playwright, producer, director and, in the title role, every inch a diva-to put the art back into commedia dell'arte...
Beverly Sills, 54, director of the New York City Opera and retired diva, on the fact that she does not sing at all now, not even in the shower: "My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used...
...movies at the Brattle Theater on Brattle St. on the way to the Loeb Theatre often overstay their welcome. "Diva," for example, stayed for more than three months but the films shown are definitely top-shelf foreign delights...
...locals saved their special scorn. At the end of each of these films the crowd whistled derisively and stomped their feet. When Bresson, 81, appeared onstage closing night, he was bombarded with boos. L'Argent at least had its partisans among the critics. Beineix, whose 1981 film Diva had become a popular success in France, was not so lucky with The Moon in the Gutter, a moody melodrama about a dockworker obsessed with his sister's death...