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...collisional debut with Simpson's own offering. Written by journalist Sheila (Amy Fisher: My Story) Weller, the book draws on interviews with about 80 friends and relatives of the couple to present details you'll probably wish you hadn't learned; for example, Nicole was a lip-gloss woman from way back. The book says, `` `Please take that off her,' Denise Brown told the mortician, indicating the pasty dark red lipstick he had applied to Nicole's mouth. All the Brown sisters huddled around as the mortician did as he was told With a little sigh whose understated sorrow covered...
...that they may share his pain. After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiance, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...that they may share his pain. After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiancee, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...production itself is another matter. Rather than trusting the music to make its effect, Graham Vick offers instead a cartoonish and superfluous gloss on the sardonic opera. Vick, the director of productions for the Glyndebourne Festival, and his all-British production team have set the action in the deprived consumer hell of the Soviet 1950s: Katerina's erotic fantasies, for example, run to materialistic visions of brides wielding vacuum cleaners. $ Symbols of heavy industry like cranes, tractors and forklifts move props (such as Katerina's marital bed) on and off stage, and Katerina's feckless husband is buried...
...Friel undermines the superficial gloss of each character. At the same time, he reveals the gradually deteriorating status of the Mundy family itself. But he never indicates which aspect is more real--which interpretation more true. The script embraces self-contradiction with open arms...