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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...howled the blues with Chapman and hollered in falsetto with the Bee Gees. We found out that Kathy Ireland and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, went to Sean's high school, and we found out that Amanda thinks Cary Elwes is the hottest guy ever. Tarek and I rhapsodized about the pre-Guns `n' Roses Stephanie Seymour. We discussed what we find attractive in other people--besides nice eyes...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: When Baseball Just Isn't Enough | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Sean talked about how he had interviewed Elvira: "So I interviewed her for the school paper--it was a reunion, and I asked her if she had implants...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: When Baseball Just Isn't Enough | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...

Author: By Lawrence M. Brown, | Title: Fine Italian Girl in Lowell House | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

Lars Mellander (Ali), Dorothy Morris (Elvira), and Janine Wanee (Zulma) turn in performance of technical aplomb but little else. Mellander's inexpressive mime doesn't go beyond the essentials. Morris's Elvira is appropriately pitiful, but comes across more contentious than helpless, more an evil shrew than a hapless victim of a inane husband's scorn. And Wanee's Zulma, although not a major part, fades too easily into inconsequence...

Author: By Lawrence M. Brown, | Title: Fine Italian Girl in Lowell House | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...resort and ended up buying the place," she says. Ted Turner has purchased about 127,000 acres of prime land just north of Paradise Valley and Yellowstone National Park and is building a home there; he is believed to be the largest landowner in the state. Even baritone Pablo Elvira has moved west; he sponsors an opera festival in downtown Bozeman each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cattlemen Vs. Granola Bars | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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