Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apogee of excess, however, was a $3 million extravaganza staged in Paris by Thierry Mugler, who took over the Cirque d'Hiver to celebrate his 20th year in the business. A standing-room-only crowd of 1,700 watched as nearly 100 models and dancers cavorted on a multilevel stage. He had the finest flowering of supermodeldom, plus drop-ins by former Hitchcock star (The Birds) Tippi Hedren-one of whose gowns was decorated with feathers-and heiress Patty Hearst. Mugler is about the only person left who presents corsets and bustiers, but at least he made them sexy...
...Thursday, Sept. 30. "Wedding Banquet" at 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:40 p.m. and 12:10 a.m. "Like Water for Chocolate" at 10:35 p.m. "Into the West" at 12:20, 2:45, 5:10 and 7:40 p.m. "Un Couer En Hiver" at 12:40, 3:20, 5:40, 8 and 10:20 p.m. "Manhattan Murder Mystery" at 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:40, 9:20 and 11:50 p.m. "Age of Innocence...
...Coeur En Hiver" is an indefatigably French movie, filled with minute conversation, coolly beautiful women, pensive silences and an impassioned polemic on the death of high art. There is also always a bottle or two of mineral water lying about, so much so that you wonder if somebody somewhere isn't getting paid. The film relies in part on the appealing possibilities of several settings: the workshop of an esteemed instrument-making partnership, the country home of an elderly couple, and several Parisian cafes. The restrained, somber-faced Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) is the behind-the-scenes brains of the business...
...adifficult task. Stephane is given to uttering suchwinners as "I like watching you talk," "All booksare about love," and "Music is dreams." Of course,he does this in French, and everyone doeseverything else in French, but that is somehow notenough to make the Franco-talkiness of "Un Coeuren Hiver"-- or its silences--as meaningful as theycould...
CINEMA Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...