Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight over Cyprus all over again, starring ANTONIO BANDERAS this time. The Mask of Zorro star, apparently responding to pressure from Greek Americans, has pulled out of a movie about the life of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK, founder of modern Turkey. At least that's the story being told by Tarquin Olivier, a financier and the son of actor Laurence Olivier. Though this is his initial venture in film production, he'd enlisted Bruce Beresford as director and, according to the New York Times, had managed to get a lot of the financing on the strength of Banderas' participation. The star...
This alone would be enough to recommend The Mask of Zorro--and separate it from its competitors. Imagine a summer action spectacle that saves its only explosion until the end, where it has a genuine impact. Imagine one that leaves room for grace notes of humor and gallantry and does not bury them in showers of bad language and falling debris. Imagine one where you can actually hear yourself think. And better yet, hear the actors think...
...Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...
...wife, with whom he was in love, and then abducted their daughter to raise as his own. Played in adulthood by the ravishingly beautiful and wonderfully spirited Catherine Zeta- Jones, she is, of course, destined to find both her true father and her true love behind one Zorro mask or another...
...beginning of the summer, I did not realize that in Northern Westchester I need to be on my guard. Now I see the quiet tree-lined streets and well-dressed Westchester residents as a mask. I feel a little unsafe and a little less free than I did in June. The E.R. scared me, but it was not shocking. In a city, we know to be wary of crime and of other people. I respect city residents for their courage. They take measures to keep themselves safe so they can live in a community that does not wear a mask...