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...many in the business, his name means money out of the bank. His last film, Year of the Dragon, got mixed reviews and was a box-office flop; the one before, Heaven's Gate, wrote the book--and was the subject of one--on celluloid disasters. But that has not stopped Director Michael Cimino from undertaking yet another big-budget epic: The Sicilian, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. Now being filmed in Italy, the movie centers on the short, bloody career of Italian Gangster Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life Robin Hood of the late '40s who dreamed...
Charles then spoke with some of the peoplewaiting to greet him. He talked first with JoyceScolefield, a local resident, who held theofficial flag of Wales--a green and white bannerwith a red dragon emblazoned on it. A beemingScolefield, who drove down to Newport to purchasethe flag, said of her discussion with the Prince,"He just said that he was happy to be in Boston...
...mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...
Manhunter, based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, is a police procedural with some smart new fangles. The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche. Will is the typical tough-cop hero -- a loner whose awareness of his own checked rages makes him see the killer as his evil twin -- but he is also a decent family man; a supermarket chat with his son, about the bad things bad men do to people, is one of the film's surprise highlights...
...Valhalla by means of a balloon gondola. The Valkyries ride off to war aboard carrousel horses suspended in midair. Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep in what appears to be a cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...