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...Twin Bracelets at 4, 6, 8and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10.Play Misty for Me at 3:40 and 7:50 p.m. andTightrope at 1:30, 3:40 and 9:45 p.m. on Sunday,Oct. 11. Laura at 4:10 and 8 p.m. and Gilda at 2,5:55 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12. Thelma andLouise at 7:20 p.m. and A Question of Silence at5:30 and 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13. PauleMarshall at 5:30 p.m. and Long Day's Journey intoNight at 8 p.m. on Wednesday...
Leonard Michaels's essay on Gilda offers the corresponding male version. Michaels recalls his first awareness of sexuality sparked by a seductive Rita Hayworth belting out "Put the Blame on Mame." He reminisces: "If it was a real feeling, could I be violated by it, my own real feeling? Could it happen to anyone? If so, could anyone ever be a good person...
Looking back, Michaels remains haunted by Hayworth, but realizes how manufactured Hayworth's Gilda and film, in general, are. Nothing her turbulent life and five marriages, he now sees Hayworth differently: "So much of her life was public, spectacular imagery that it is hard to suppose she had a real life, or to suppose that her feelings about Rita Hayworth were not the same as ours...
...SCTV mimics -- Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short -- did have a problem. On TV they hid like a subversive subtext inside their brilliant impersonations. But in movies an actor doesn't disappear; he displays himself. So Short has put his mimetic, improvisatory genius on hold and marketed one facet of his personality: the winsome whiner...
...June Anderson, and where does she get off being so -- well, so demanding? For starters, she is the newest diva on the international music scene. Her coronation came last fall with her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the season's major event. "Ah, she is beautiful!" croons Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive...