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...legendary Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's great dictator and unofficial queen of the masses, is one of history's most elusive figures, lending herself more easily to pop-opera deification than standard biography. Tomas Eloy Martinez's absorbing and intricate new novel, Santa Evita, uses so many narrative tricks to both remedy and explore this problem that it almost defies description...
Ballet and opera, now further removed than Shakespeare from popular appreciation, actually took much longer to ascend to the ranks of "high culture." Opera actually took root in very few countries. Audiences had difficulty accepting dialogue in song, much the trouble some audiences have with Evita. But where opera and ballet were accepted, they were accepted by the masses as popular culture. Opera and ballet were not "high culture...
...about heroines and role models, especially in popular culture. Thelma and Louise were an option, but aside from the fact that they are fictional characters, I'm not sure I'm so fond of all the choices they made. Madonna is another possibility, but as much as I adore "Evita," I still can't get past envisioning her in her "Like a Virgin" phase. Looking out for a better option, over vacation I even watched the "Ladies Home Journal" salute to the "Women of 1996." But they all seemed to be bestowed with this honor because they were somebody...
MIRACLE OF LOURDES OF 1996: Bringing up baby and Evita, Madonna gets a new lease on her career
...first the Evita frenzy will have to be justified by a measure of success at the box office. And that is far from certain. Madonna's presence onscreen has yet to be a big draw, and the massive publicity campaign cannot obscure the fact that Evita is a two-hour opera. "I don't know if it's going to be commercial," she says. "But I am 100 percent sure that I did the best job I could." That may not be enough to finally make Madonna a major movie star. But it has accomplished at least one thing...