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Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...
...civilized; Criss makes him vulgar. He should be easy, going; but in this version he thunders every other word as if the fires of hell had engulfed the theatres on Washington Street and were reaching eagerly for the Charles. He should play the reserved, dignified husband, not the long-lost lover who wraps his arms around his wife's waist and snatches at her hands...
...wrong thing. One day Carlos sees a woman on the street, and is instantly smitten with the sort of grand passion that is possible only to the passive. He makes her his mistress, and is about to make her his wife when he discovers that the lady is his long-lost sister. Here at last is the romantic disaster for which Carlos has been secretly hoping, the excuse that will justify his failure to stand up and fight like a man for the ideals he passionately professes but does not deeply feel. In a paroxysm of pusillanimity he abandons...
...court theater of Haydn's patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, are mostly free-wheeling romps, light on drama but buoyed by richly melodious scores. Le Pescatrici is a kind of seagoing Cinderella. A handsome prince moors his ship at a small fishing village. He is in search of the long-lost heiress to the Benevento throne, who was spirited away as a baby, after her father's assassination. For reasons of state, the prince wants to marry her. Two fisherwomen immediately claim to be the princess, fall all over themselves seeking the prince's affection. The real princess...
...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gig Young, suavest of con men, impersonates a long-lost relative of a wealthy family to claim an inheritance...