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When it isn't taking its subject too seriously, The Last Don is more amusing than the rest of this month's mini-series. Where else can we find Daryl Hannah playing an actress named Athena Aquitane who stars in a $50 million feminist action flick directed by k.d. lang...
Marie Daulne, the lead singer for the vocal group Zap Mama, has a personal history worthy of a leading character in a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick. After her Belgian father was slain in 1964 by rebels bent on ethnic cleansing, Daulne, a native of Zaire, and her Bantu mother took shelter with a tribe of pygmies before escaping to Belgium. With a background like that, it's no wonderDaulne makes music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity...
...something dark lingers throughout the performance. Perhaps Prokofiev's score, which haunts even the most romantic moments at the flick of a violin bow, is partially to blame. Perhaps it's the costumes, dark navy uniform gowns for the ladies and drab tuxedoes for the men in the eerily-lit ballroom scene, also add to the mood. Perhaps the unexplained variations in the story-line, which Corder himself hopes create "a feeling of mystery and magic," cause a slightly unsettling feeling instead. Whatever the reason, Cinderella remains a delightful, if somewhat dark, performance piece...
...factors that make branches not only consumer friendly but robber friendly as well, such as their being scattered along freeways away from downtown. They are also upgrading the quality of their camera surveillance and looking into new devices such as "mantraps" that can seal off a vestibule at the flick of a teller's switch...
...prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA. THIS IS YOUR TOSHIBA...