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...silenced, or even quieted. Maybe he will grow into a greater mantle. Of all the athletes in their prime, Martina Navratilova should have the nearest understanding of where Gretzky and Bird are situated. For the past three years, her grip on women's tennis has made Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with an underrated delicateness. The Czech defector does...
...Jean-Louis Chavel is one of 30 Frenchmen being held in a small prison block by the occupying German army. Chavel, a lawyer before the war, and his fellow detainees know exactly why their captors provide them food and shelter: the involuntary guests are hostages, meant to discourage local Resistance violence against the Nazis. This deterrent, of course, does not work. Two Germans are killed, and the order comes down from the prison commander: one out of every ten prisoners is to be executed at sunrise. The men themselves must choose the victims. Lots are drawn, and Chavel finds himself...
Those who have spent time familiarizing themselves with the topography of Greeneland will have some idea of what must happen next. France is liberated and so is Chavel, who emerges from prison with papers that identify him as one Jean-Louis Charlot. Having lost everything but his life, the survivor feels driven inexorably toward the home he has relinquished. There he meets his unsuspecting inheritors: an old woman who knows nothing of the fate of her son and a sister who can think of little else. Therese gives the ragged visitor food and discusses the horrible man who bought...
Panned by some critics and damned by the church, Jean-Luc Godard's new movie, Hail Mary, is naturally packing in scandal-loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have...
...dress all six as victims of Reagan-era policies. "We wear our characters lightly and dress them lightly," says Co-Founder Bernard Sahlins. "Put on a pair of glasses and you've got a businessman." Put on a beret, as Troupe Member Richard Kind does later, and you have Jean-Paul Sartre, unpleasantly surprised to discover that there is an afterlife and that God, played by Mike Hagerty, is a sort of hearty camp counselor. Sartre: It's not what I expected. God: What did you expect...