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Best of all, though, vocally and comedically, was John Bernard as Alfredo, a character whose very name suggests the world of opera he was to lambaste. Bernard seemed for all the world to be reprising Kevin Kline's role in A Fish Called Wanda, only with a better grasp of Italian. His onstage, offstage, and backstage impromptu arias paid tribute to "La Traviata," "Tosca," "Turandot," "L'Elisir d'Amore," "Der Rosenkavalier, "Aida," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." As Rosalinda's lover, his goodbye kiss at the end of act one, when he was being...
...operated all but openly as a fence disposing of the Nazi trove, apparently transferred the painting during the war. "It's just obvious that people buying art need to do their homework, just as they would when they purchase real estate, used cars or even livestock," says Thomas Kline, who represents the Goodmans and has emerged as this country's most prominent lawyer in the field of art recovery...
...Goodmans tracked another painting, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, a canvas attributed to Botticelli, to New York, where it was sold by Sotheby's for $690,000 on Jan. 30, even though Kline says he had earlier informed Sotheby's, in writing, of the family's claim to the painting. Sotheby's later helped arrange a six-figure confidential settlement between the Italian seller of the work and the Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check...
...talented Ang Lee directs this film about uneasy family relationships in the restess, promiscuous 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Alen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...talented Ang Lee directs this film about uneasy family relationships in the restess, promiscuous 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Alen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no redemption. The ice storm, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...