Word: lorene
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...channel Madonna in her "Vogue" period. But each one is there to explain a situation, not advance the plot; they're ornamental, not organic. After a while, Nine plays like some Hollywood charity revue where Oscar-winning stars (the movie has six: Day-Lewis, Cotillard, Dench, Kidman, Cruz and Loren) prove that, hey, they can sing...
...Daniel Day-Lewis) are a famous director scheduled to make your next film. Your producer is throwing money at you; a hundred skilled technicians are ready to turn your whims into cinema reality; and everywhere, beautiful women (Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren) throw themselves at you, begging you to use them. So of course you/re miserable - because, at the moment, as a creative filmmaker...
...inward. Nine, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and scripted by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Michael Tolkin (The Player), wants to do both: engage in a little navel-gazing while summoning the glories of Italian cinema in the Cinecitta era of the 1960s. Find a role for Sophia Loren! Cast Kidman as an amalgam of Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg! And, just as anachronistic, have people sing their troubles, on a single bare stage. (See a photographic tribute to Sophia Loren...
...route to the nation’s capital to watch the Harvard men’s basketball team try its hand at upsetting No. 13 Georgetown, former Crimson Sports Chair Loren Amor and I made a pit stop in New York City to watch another Ivy team take a shot at a Big East opponent...
...Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...