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Off and on for the past four months, Parisians have found themselves jolted right back into a bad dream as a Hollywood production unit has ground out the on-the-spot scenes for Is Paris Burning? The end is in sight, if Parisian nerves can stand up till then. This...
Though a plot as old as The Hill's can well be a handicap, U.S. Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker) nails the action of this spiky British drama into so taut a frame that an audience can feel every jab in the belly, taste every mouthful of dust. It...
It was 1922. In a hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin Marcel Proust, now 51, was drawing to a close For 17 years he had prophesied this event to his friends, who were amused. He had diagnosed the instrument pneumonia-before...
Operas do convey a great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic...
IT can be said of few artists that they are beyond imitation or that their work can be instantly identified. Yet this was true of Boris Artzybasheff, our old friend and colleague who died last week at the age of 66 (see MILESTONES). Looking at a computer eating file cards...