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PIQUE DAME. This is another mar velous blend of the Tchaikovsky-Push kin talents telling the unhappy tale of an obsessive gambler named Hermann who makes a pact with the dead to win a for tune. The singing on the first night (again Atlantov, Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices...
...Lucan, an Irish title dating from 1795. He made gentleman's marks at Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, then prepped at a London bank until one spectacular night 15 years ago when he won $56,000 at chemin de fer. After that, "Lucky Lucan" became an inveterate gambler...
...decayed gentility and Sinn Fein violence, flung out of home at 16 for making love to the grooms, drifting into Berlin and the tackiest pits of Weimar decadence, changing addresses almost as often as shirts, surviving in an utterly provisional manner as unsuccessful interior decorator in Germany, as professional gambler in England, Bacon is a very English figure - in some ways a modern (and untitled) type of the Restoration libertine and wit, Lord Rochester...
...appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
...Sometimes Jimmy thinks he is already cooling off. The studios want him in his proven moneymaking role of Sonny: "They won't let you fall on your ass anymore." And he has been overlooked for an Oscar. "Everyone said you're a shoo-in for The Gambler - then nothing." Now he is not sure where he stands. "I have a feeling the moment you do something different, the way Brando has done, they're just waiting to hack you to pieces...