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...after Juan Peron's election as President of Argentina, 20 years after the release of the original album of the musical, and after numerous false starts of film projects that had nearly every female but Queen Latifah rumored for the lead--Madonna should step out on the balcony in Evita...
...handsomely visualized--easily the best adaptation of a Broadway-style musical in decades. It is faithful to the sting and breadth of Tim Rice's libretto, to the ravishing Andrew Lloyd Webber score that synthesizes Broadway, opera and pop with the lilt of Latino lounge music. But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart of the drama is Rice's fascinated ambivalence toward the prototype couple of criminal celebrity and toward the culture that needs them...
...Evita is not so much about Argentine politics as about the English obsession with class. Eva, the illegitimate daughter of an estate manager whose funeral her servant mother was forbidden to attend, gets back at the middle class with her upwardly nubile conquest of the military aristocracy. Our guide in this revenge melodrama is a sardonic, Rice-like narrator (Antonio Banderas), offering keys to the allure of Santa Evita, first lady, holy whore...
...every film is a great merchandising opportunity," says Pat Wyatt, president of licensing for Fox. And not all spin-offs are aimed at junior. Estee Lauder, for instance, is currently marketing a line of makeup called the Face of Evita. But the best bets for merchandising, according to Wyatt, are family films with a strong fantasy element. In toy terms, "creatures do better than representations of people because kids can project a broader fantasy into their play." A more practical problem with human-based toys is getting actors to sign off on their likenesses; another is getting the likenesses right...
This is the season of superdivas: Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand and Madonna. Each is starring in a major holiday film (Houston in The Preacher's Wife, Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces and Madonna in Evita), and each is featured on the sound track of her film. Houston's Preacher (in stores Nov. 12) represents a change of pace for the mainstream megastar. Half the CD is pop, and half is gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music...