Word: evita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contrast, love objects in Argentina run more toward postimpressionist paintings from pricey Buenos Aires galleries like Wildenstein, or jewelry selected by government officials for their wives from a famed jewelry shop like Ricciardi, a favorite haunt of the late Evita Peron. Those bills too, of course, are paid by the deal-hungry businessmen...
...EVITA PERON...
...Duarte. At 17 she was an ambitious ingenue who moved up by sleeping around; at 27 she was the First Lady of Argentina, the power behind Juan Perón; at 33 she was dead of cancer. She was one smart cookie, laced with strychnine-Eva Brains and Evita Braun. As a wily teenager, she ran through lovers like a bull on the pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen...
Faye Dunaway, the Evita of this four-hour TV movie, has the cool, carnivorous intelligence needed to play a dictator's doxy. When the material is tepid, she puts a fire under it to make it percolate. When given a strong scene, like the dying Evita's farewell radio address, she can key several moods - weariness, coquetry, defiance - while providing the scene with a swift climactic kick. But Writer Ronald Harwood and Director Marvin Chomsky allow too much of Evita Perón to glide by on casters; and James Farentino, as Perón, looks and acts...
...course, the plot is not the point. The savory core of this musical is song and dance. The tuneful seductiveness of the score, especially Thinking of You, Any Little Thing, Up in the Clouds, is not to be found in Evita, Barnum or 42nd Street. Choreographer Dan Siretta sculptures stage space with stylized forms, and his Dancing the Devil Away is a New York prairie fire kindled with tap shoes. The show is not for worrywarts who want to cure the world's ills with a $25 donation...