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What the opera world needs most right now is a new Wagnerian soprano or a hefty heldentenor, but that is not what the fans are looking for. What they fret about is, Where is the next Pavarotti going to come from? Who will replace Domingo? These two supersingers have raised tenor worship to extraordinary levels, and even they admit that they can't go on forever. There are many claimants for the rich prize of tenor dominance, but the one taken most seriously is a young French-born Sicilian named Roberto Alagna. He is 32, handsome, slender and blessed with...
...fret if you don't recognize all of the gentlemen photographed by Annie Leibovitz above. According to Vanity Fair, you will. Of all the young males walking around movie sets, the magazine thinks TIM ROTH, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, BENICIO DEL TORO, MICHAEL RAPAPORT, STEPHEN DORFF, JOHNATHON SCHAECH, DAVID ARQUETTE, WILL SMITH and SKEET ULRICH will become the hot male stars of next year or so. Either that or these are the ones with the best publicists. And in case tomorrow's men aren't as interesting to you as yesterday's boys, photographer Herb Ritts gives JACKIE COOPER...
...corned beef and the weekly Mass and the guilt. Edward Burns--writer, director and co-star of The Brothers McMullen--means to fill that gap with this frail fable of three Long Island siblings (Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst. They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy...
...There aren't many films about Irish Americans, but that's not enough to recommend this frail fable of three Long Island siblings (writer-director-co-star Edward Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst," saysCorliss. "They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy, a lot. The acting is mostly stodgy, especially by the family trio. Burns' dialogue reeks of the page; it's cluttered with more adjectives than a D+ student paper. And when the specter of clunky writing isn't hanging over the actors, the shadow of a boom mike...
...others, who are worried that the Bells would use their clout in local markets and local politics to steer customers toward signing up with them for long-distance service. Competitors fret too that the Bells already have the phone lines, switches and other equipment in place to enable them to enter the long-distance business before new companies can begin to offer local service...