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...EVITA WANNABES...
...fashion retailer what he wants Santa to bring, and the wish may well be runaway success for Evita, to be released Christmas Day and starring Madonna. The film captures the glamorous, polished look of the '40s: huge shoulders, nipped-in waist, plenty of accessories. It all adds up to plenty of perchandise. Bloomingdale's will open Evita boutiques in nine stores, and Estee Lauder has whipped up a line of makeup: ruby lipstick and white powder in a frankly made-up look. !Viva...
Danson, with his mix of insouciance and egotism, is in peak form--trying, for example, to foment a rebellion among his co-workers against "Evita in there" after they've been thoroughly snowed by their new boss. Steenburgen needs to spend a few hours at the word processor before she'll convince us that she belongs inside a newsroom, but she plays off him well. The secondary characters are better than their pilot predecessors as well, largely because most of them (like the mousy business reporter played by Saul Rubinek) aren't pushed on us too hard. The one exception...
Until now. After the drought, the deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
...singer has no shortage of projects and offers these days (her husband says she turned down the title role in the movie Evita that eventually went to Madonna), and is currently preparing for a world tour that kicks off July 18. "I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago," says Estefan. "After Mi Tierra I could never go back to doing the same old thing." Clearly, Estefan's Destiny lies elsewhere...