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...EVITA! MADONNA...
...which reaped 12 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor and best actress. Other best picture nominees include "Fargo," "Shine," "Secrets & Lies," and TriStar's "Jerry Maguire," the only picture from a major studio slated for the award. Despite the heavy PR that heralded the film's release, "Evita," a rework of Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's stage hit, failed to make the grade for best picture. Madonna, who starred as the flashy Eva Peron, also came up short in her bid for a best actress nomination -- echoing criticism that her performance was nothing more than a feature-length...
...fill in all the blank spaces of what, later on, was going to be my novel. But I left them where they were, leaving the story, because I am fond of unexplained blank spaces." Instead of chasing the impossible, Martinez writes about the magic and mystery associated with Evita with impressive skill and completeness...
...storytelling. Martinez bases the shifting structure of his story on the idea that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader...
...Santa Evita, Evita emerges as a more complex figure whose identity was confused with that of Argentina and the adoring masses. Martinez drags a lifeless body through the pages of his novel, hoping that his presentation of the true-life adventures of Evita's corpse will shed some light on her existence. What emerges is more than just a meditation on the life and death of Eva Peron. Martinez has constructed a remarkably entertaining and insightful look at the way history is formed, insisting that both truth and fiction feed our knowledge of the past and the present...