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Alumni also elected six new directors of the Alumni Association: Eric L. Eversley, Linda Block Goldberg, Nehama Jacobs '74, Yuichi Katoh '61, Stephen J. O'Brien '77, and Harry L. Shipman...
Anyway, it stinks of calculation. The film -- about a Reno singer (Whoopi Goldberg) finding refuge from her gangster lover (Harvey Keitel) in a dilapidated convent run by staid Maggie Smith -- allows no room for irony, vagrant inspiration or air. There's something piquant about the look of Whoopi in a wimple, but the star must soar or sink with the vehicle, and this one is a bathysphere. Despite a nice turn by Kathy Najimy as a criminally chirpy nun and some inventive charts by ace arranger Marc Shaiman, Sister Act has corporate fingerprints smudging its smiling face...
...Bach's Goldberg Variations, recorded by Glenn Gould...
...here comes Disney with Encino Man (May 22), in which MTV Valley Dude Pauly Shore digs up a frozen caveman, and Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of summer," and that's fine with Katzenberg, who describes his mostly low-budget summer slate as "the anti- 800-lb.-gorilla school of film-making." Disney's only expensive movie is, of course, a sequel: Honey, I Blew...
...devices that create a bourgeois French ambience are carried through by the actors and actresses with ease. The costumes (designed by Lara Ho and Christie Peale) are appropriate for the classical French setting. The set design utilizes the space of Leverett House old Library well. The music, Bach's Goldberg Variations (Aria and 30 variations) lends itself to the decadent an opulent atmosphere well. The overall visual and the atrical effects show off some excellent talents...