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...long and varied stage career, which included appearances in the Broadway runs of "Mrs. McThing," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Love's Labors Lost," "Texas Trilogy," "Hamlet" and "Our Town...
...nobly cuckolded Arthur, a perennial boy transmuted into a saint. At 60 and looking it -- especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn and Pellinore is a camp extravaganza of twitches, nods, snorts and doddering...
...McTiernan, who made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson's. "To be, or not to be," he says, lighting his trademark cigar stub. "Not to be." And Elsinore goes boom! But after a while, as the facetious film references (to everything from E.T. to The Seventh Seal pile up, Hero turns into the industry...
...story is typical. Daughter of a poor farmer in a hamlet three days' walk from Katmandu, Manju was 12 when her mother died. Unable to cope with three children, her father handed her over a few months later to two strangers: she thought she was going to Bombay to work as a housemaid. When the two men sold her to a pimp for $1,000, "there was nothing I could do," she says. "I was trapped." She is never allowed to set foot outside the brothel. Moreover, she is expected to repay her full purchase price. Rent, food and clothing...
Kenneth Branagh will have none of this. At 31, after bustling triumphs on stage (Hamlet), in films (Henry V ) and on TV (Fortunes of War), he is still a young man in a hurry. His ambition is the best thing about him. Having directed the box-office success Dead Again, he confidently grabs some mogul by the Armani lapels and says, Mickey-and-Judy style, Let's put the Bard on right now! And put lots of pretty young people in it. Even Americans -- they can learn their lines phonetically. And we'll photograph them in loving slow-mo while...