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Diva, a first feature by Jean-Jacques Beineix, 35, has flair to spare. No picturesque French location, from a bombed-out concert hall to a Normandy lighthouse, is too remote. No surface-water, a car hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest...
...writer prone to detect the Eleusinian mysteries at the bottom of every rabbit hole-interprets as a recovery of myth. All the work is extremely knowing. Its images, from Pisani's impenetrably hermetic Rosicrucian allegories to Ontani's pale face photographed as Dante Alighieri, in red hood and laurel wreath, all hang suspended in double or even triple sets of quotation marks. One can have quite a lot of pick-the-reference fun in this show without getting much in the way of aesthetic thrills...
Leaving Harvard several years later, Hood starred in Andy Warhol's movie, "The Hustler." Alfred said Hood spent time in Harvard Square helping drifters, even lending them money at times...
Alfred said Hood was begining to recover from a period of personal problems and was planning to complete a thesis on love in the works of Shakespeare he had been working on for nine years...
...William Kaden, who treated Hood at University Health Services for 16 years, said yesterday that "Hood was a remarkable teacher with great promise," adding that "it's a shame things didn't work...