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...Brady clan -- three boys, three girls, two parents (Florence Henderson and Robert Reed) and Alice, the wisecracking maid (Ann B. Davis) -- has puttered along in reruns ever since the show's cancellation in 1974 after five seasons on ABC. Now it has re-emerged, on the stage, in a bizarre bit of media reversal called The Real Live Brady Bunch. Mounted by a Chicago alternative- theater troupe, the show is alarmingly simple in concept. Episodes of the old sitcom are merely re-enacted, scene for scene, line for line. (A new episode is performed every week; a game-show parody...
...plays Forrest Bedford, a liberal-minded prosecutor in a small Southern town who is raising three children on his own. (His wife has been hospitalized after a nervous breakdown; Forrest, meanwhile, is growing friendly with a rival lawyer, played by Kathryn Harrold.) The family has just hired a new maid, Lily (Regina Taylor), who becomes the focus for an exploration of changing race relations at a crucial historical time...
...chances for escape and ending up as victims, not saviors. But they showed at least that women could dish out their share of violence -- whatever advance that represents. Even the muscle movies are admitting strong women. In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is a self-reliant Maid Marian. And in the Terminator films, Linda Hamilton eats cyborgs for breakfast and spits them out like ingots...
...second rarity is Tchaikovsky's little-known version of the Joan of Arc story, The Maid of Orleans, based on a play by Schiller. It presented a different problem: how to bring life to what is essentially a series of choruses and processions. One solution was to highlight Joan's fictitious romance with a Burgundian soldier. The Bolshoi's directors, says Kokonin, "read Tchaikovsky's music according to what they saw as Schiller's original theme: the conflict of love and duty...
...Costner's larger, busier take on the legend, the only green power is at the box office. With a sigh, the script reprises Robin's recruiting of his Merry Men (a pallid crowd here), his verbal jousting (uninspired), his romance with Maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, her wondrous screen potential again untapped). The movie treats these plot points as tiresome requirements, not chances to work fresh alchemy on old elements. At 2 hours 20 minutes, the enterprise lacks passion, or even a sense of inspired fun; it is as if the filmmakers were dutifully honoring business commitments. Wading through...