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Subway, Luc Besson's retarded new film about crime and punishment in the Parisian underground, is everything you'd expect from the post-Diva school of French, filmmaking: lettuce-crisp photography, a plot no less difficult to follow than the average Jacobean tragedy, plenty of MTV ear-and-eye candy, a handsome hero, a tongue-in-chic heroine, and beaucoup world-weary supporting characters who walk around with Arc de Triomphe-sized chips on their shoulders...
...reluctant diva, with a disarming practical streak. "I think I've accepted it now," says Battle, 37, of her stardom. "But until quite recently, I thought one must always be prepared for other things in life. I've been a secretary. I've been a teacher. Star? Diva? Divas don't do Despina. I do Despina, so do the two go together...
Heir presumptive to Jean--Jacques Beneix's Diva and Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing...
...will be 58 years old, and it is thrilling to be asked why I am retiring, rather than why not," says Price, who has lost none of the stately, imperious glamour that marks the born diva. "There is nothing in the world more embarrassing, more pathetic than the artist who can no longer give his best. I did something right," she adds. "I took care of the most extraordinary thing I have: my voice...
Sills, aware that her first priority was to use her celebrity status as newly retired diva to raise funds, often traded a personal appearance for a donation. Inevitably, quality suffered while she concentrated on money; City Opera hit its aesthetic nadir in 1982 with a tired The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach and a ludicrous I Lombardi by Verdi, which Sills didn't see until the dress rehearsal. "I have had my turkeys," she admits. "Had I seen it earlier, I would have pulled Lombardi out of the repertory. But two days before, I didn't have...