Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help kicking up her skates in glee. "I love it," she bubbles about her stint with the Ice Capades. "Competition is just you and the record and the judges' marks," the Olympic gold-medal winner explains. "But an ice show is for entertainment, lots of glitter and fairy tale and fantasy." When her glitter days are over, Dorothy hopes to teach skating to blind and handicapped youngsters. "If they're blind, you hold their hand," she says. "Soon they're skating just like anyone else." Well, not like Dorothy...
...Auerbach, president of the Boston Celtics, explaining why it took him so long to replace Coach Tom Heinsohn (with Tom Sanders): "I love the guy. I've known him 20 years, and he still sells me insurance...
...perverse brutality, a kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group of peasant women resisting the landlords against a red sunset. But just as often, Bertolucci...
...turn on the fascists of their own town, and then it is the padrone's turn. Passive as ever, De Niro stands before a people's tribunal--under a huge red flag that is miraculously unharmed by the bayonets that hold it up. But if De Niro retained his love for his peasant friend throughout the fascist period, Depardieu cannot overcome his ties to De Niro and he does not permit the tribunal to reach its natural conclusion...
...unfortunate that Bertolucci chose to portray unresolveable tension; whether or not his message is valid, it does not lend itself easily to a heavyhanded treatment. The main conflict in 1900 is the love these two men bear for each other, across ideological and social grounds; and the main question we are left with is why they bear it. De Niro and Depardieu are both fine actors, and play their roles well, so the fault lies elsewhere--probably with their director. In his effort to give 1900 an epic vastness, it seems, Bertolucci lost sight of the smaller things, the individuals...