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...program includes a statement from the Anti-Defamation League noting the history of anti-Semitism in passion plays and saluting the "message of tolerance" conveyed by the tour's U.S. packager, Radio City Music Hall Productions. The 58-member cast includes several agnostics and Muslims, according to Jean Marie Lamour, 29, who plays Christ. But, he adds, "during the show, they are all believers...
...Lamour's English is heavily accented, and others in the cast can barely function in English. That doesn't matter: even in the French version, the actors do not speak. They just pantomime and lip-synch to a portentous voice- over narration that calls to mind Alexander Scourby somberly narrating some war documentary. This technique enabled the show to be imported intact, and will permit performances in Spanish in Mexico City and seven U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations...
Loesser the Hollywood lyricist was Mr. Do-It-All. He wrote torchy stuff for gangster dramas and sarong songs for Dorothy Lamour. When collaborating, Loesser usually devised the lyric first, along with a "dummy tune" to suggest tempo and rhythm. Jimmy McHugh could compose a long, languid melodic line for Let's Get Lost because Loesser had compressed the intensity of new passion into the narrowest meter: "Let's defrost/ In a romantic mist./ Let's get crossed/ Off everybody's list...
...Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear not. It can now be happily reported that far from a boy, the French actress will play a voluptuous, Dorothy Lamour-type % character in what is supposed to be a madcap throwback to the Hope-Crosby Road classics--with Hoffman doing the wisecracking and Beatty as a sometimes inept sexual bumbler. This should require the best performing talents of both Beatty and Adjani, since the two are said to be real...
...under claustrophobic pressure, is precisely what Director Roger Donaldson, a New Zealander, did well in Smash Palace two years ago. Instead, time is misspent on the allegedly exotic sights, rites and sexuality of the South Seas natives. Toplessness aside, he visualizes them pretty much as directors did in Dorothy Lamour's day. Perhaps he was distracted by the shadows still fitfully visible in this film of the intelligent, unrealized idea with which it began. -By Richard Schickel