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...local theater, and life at home is a succession of agreeable rituals: caroling, speechifying, sumptuous meals, flirtatious sex. The house is the perfect home for Alexander, whose favorite toy is a "magic lantern," a primitive movie camera. He can prowl through the unoccupied rooms poking into old mysteries, scouting loca tions. A pillow fight with his sister can send feathers swirling through the night light - his first special effect...
...season at the San Francisco Opera. Next December she will appear in her last new Met production, Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Two composers are writing operas for her, which are due to be introduced in the spring of 1979. They are Gian Carlo Menotti's Juana la Loca, about the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, for the San Diego Opera, and Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire, based on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, for the New York City Opera...
...teetotaler, Joe's strength is as the strength of ten because his drink is pure-Kola Loca Lemonade, for which he is Western sales representative. Though a deadly shot, he aims mainly for a greater share of the market by getting endorsements from notorious gunslingers. Lou and Winifred start lowering their eyes and necklines in his direction, but the Badman brothers start raising hell. In a grand-horse-opera finale, everyone gets plugged and expires in a heap on boot hill. Infusions of Kola Loca magically resurrect them all, whereupon Joe, Horace, Doug and Lou discover that they...
...blood line of succession), should rule as regent of Castile if Juana was incapable of ruling. When Isabella died in 1504, Juana got the crown, but Ferdinand-and for a brief time Philip-got the power. Driven deeper into insanity by the death of her husband, Queen Juana la Loca died in 1555 without ever having really ruled...
...half-dozen recent debunking farces about heroes, press-agents and high officialdom echo through Happy Landings, but several sequences-notably the one in which the 'leggers and the Moca-loca magnate get the hero to endorse Prohibition- engender good-humored laughter...