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Wuthering Heights: A Pop Myth is the creation of Alek Keshishian, who directs and choreographs a lip-synch adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel, using the music of Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Madonna and Billy Idol...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Brontesaurus | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...whittled-down plot has the lovers Catherine and Heathcliff falling apart and coming back together after being seduced by the bright lights of the big city. Catherine (Julie Glucksman) leaves her home, Wuthering Heights, and the man she loves to become Madonna. She finds a new life gyrating across stage in a hyper-kinetic frenzy as adoring fans slavishly flay themselves against the stage...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Brontesaurus | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...year fewer people came. Despite its exalted status as a temple of family entertainment and the "Showplace of the Nation," Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall would have closed if a few changes had not been made. And what changes they were! Where Snow White once graced the screen, Madonna has become a queen of the stage. In the hall where the movie King Kong premiered, the closest thing to a horror show these days is a concert by the shockrock group Twisted Sister. In addition to the high-kicking Rockettes (who still show up from time to time), audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mighty High-Kicking Comeback | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Both Korn and Meredith (Ahmed and Abby) have exceptionally rich voices and loads of stage presence. Korn plays a soulful and winsome part, and Meredith vamps relentlessly, steaming up the stage as a veiled-and-sequined cross between Madonna and Bette Midler. Warren, too, as the lovelorn Celia, belts out a show-stopping number to her old flame, Ahab, begging him not to make her retire ("Don't Veil...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

...WOMEN are whores," proclaims Oscar the Italian carpenter (Enrico Montsano). This is rather suprising coming from Oscar. He's very left wing, and has always treated his wife (Veronica Lario) like the Madonna. But when Oscar suspects that his wife has been cheating on him, he becomes enraged with her and with womankind in general...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Sorta Sorta | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

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