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...BOTTOM LINE: Coppola brings the old spook story alive -- well, undead -- as a luscious, infernal romance...
Caravaggio was the first Italian painter to make still life an independent subject, and Ribera follows him. The still-life details of his paintings, the luscious precise fruit bowls and the piles of books whose every parchment page is given its own stiffness and weight -- even the yellowed skulls that remind his saints (and his audience) of their mortality -- are not so much rendered as embodied. Like Caravaggio's, his early St. Jeromes and St. Sebastians seem transfixed by light, which hits them from a single-point source. In the days before gaslight, this was known as "cellar painting" because...
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...Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is a spare arrangement over which O'Connor's luscious vocals are spread like nutella. It pays breathy homage to Billie Holiday's timing and Marilyn Monroe's sex appeal and is by far the best track on the album...
...subject is the scandalous romance of the late 18th century's hottest couple: Lord Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, and Lady Emma Hamilton, the empire's most luscious pinup -- and wife of diplomat Sir William Hamilton. The story has usually been told from the straightforward missionary -- not to say colonial -- position. The Alexander Korda version, That Hamilton Woman, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, was Winston Churchill's favorite movie...