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DIED. JOLIE GABOR, 97, Hollywood matriarch; in Rancho Mirage, California. Known as Mama Jolie, she brought her exotic, accented daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1930s and presided over their ascent to Hollywood celebrity...
BORN: April 12, 1960, Bangor, Maine EDUCATION: Duke U, B.A., 1981; George Washington U, J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Magda; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: State Department adviser; international-assistance-organization director POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2424 University Boulevard West, Suite 202, Wheaton...
Catherine E. DeLima is a sweet-voiced anddemure Magda, gradually giving herself over firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...
...real show-stopper, however, is Jessica S.Semerjian as Lisette, Magda's maid. She radiatescharm, alternating between comic verve andsilken-voiced seduction, and turns her soubretterole into the production's pivot...
This authorial cheerleading causes some problems. Magda's losing battle with ovarian cancer is movingly portrayed, but her charismatic brilliance -- insisted upon by the worshippers who gather at her bedside -- remains elusive. One of her mots, about marriage, is deemed deep enough to serve as an epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing...