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...early on, one must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance...
...biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...
...does not perform--maintain a heavy--handed pretentious quality. Rather than portraying a situation they strain after some large generalizing statement about the nature of man, beauty and hope. The other performers, Martin's students, cannot match their teacher's brillance. Cindy Benson is too earthbound as the dancing doll that comes to life in the "Dollmaker's Dream" and both she and Stephen Driscoll, who is quite good as the dollmaker, seem to fight against the familiarity of their material...
Airport executives, pointing out that Dallas-Fort Worth's remoteness spares area residents the maddening air and noise pollution of most metropolitan airports, are confident that their colossus will eventually function like a clockwork doll. Meanwhile, more and more Texas travelers are turning to Love...
...Rubber Doll. By now he is pretty sure of a good reception, but he has never taken anything for granted. He flopped with his first audience, the Northamptonshire clan of 53 among whom he grew up. "I wasn't a natural comedian. I was not funny at home. I entered talent contests, but usually the girl in the ballet dress won." Not even this humiliation was lost on Dale. He took ballet lessons, along with a course in "eccentric dancing"-an outre British art that Dale describes as "learning to move the body as if it had no joints...