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...convoluted plot centers on Pablo (Eusebio Poncela), a filmmaker whose fashionable, charmingly tasteless movies resemble Almodovar's. Pablo lives with his brother-cum-sister Tina (Carmen Maura) a religious transsexual actress. Pablo and Tina both want boyfriends...
Excellent acting renders these unusual characters believable. Maura, who starred in "Women on the Verge," plays the transsexual Tina with relish. Maura is an actress who, as Almodovar has written, "enlarges in front of the camera." With her wide-eyed insouciance, she looks like the girl-(or former boy)-next-door, whether she's singing a hymn at the altar, snorting a line of coke or vaulting over a bar counter. Banderas (of "Mambo Kings" and "Truth or Dare") is hilarious as the appealingly deranged fan, and Poncelas convincingly portrays the oddly down-to-earth avant-garde director...
Head Coach Maura Costin-Scalise was impressed by her team's performance, but she downplayed the significance...
...Maura H. Swan '94 and Deborah J. Wexler '95 were elected co-presidents of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) last night, running on a platform of expanding and diversifying the group's membership...
...know, this team hates to lose, but we're a championship team and that means we see dual meets as preparation for the Eastern Championships," Harvard Coach Maura Costin-Scalise said, "Our team was a little tired, they were gunning...