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...narrowed from spectacle to intimacy, its tone altered from the dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp...
...James Barbour, a magnetic and strong-voiced Rochester. With his flowing hair and smoldering passion, he can at least be thankful this show grabbed him before Jekyll & Hyde. But Marla Schaffel, as Jane, fares less well. Despite a lovely voice, she seems altogether too poised and polished (not to mention too pretty) from the outset. Her desire for Rochester remains something we must take on faith, and her character, for all the gothic doings around her, seems to change little from beginning to end. And that, gentle reader, is something Jane Eyre cannot do without...
...SARAH HARMER You Were Here (Zoe). Harmer, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has a voice with some of the sublime charm of Dido's and writes erudite but colloquial lyrics that evoke the folksy smarts of the Indigo Girls. This is the year's best debut, with honorable mention going to Nelly Furtado's blithe Whoa, Nelly...
...have sown terror among civilians in rural areas of Colombia [WORLD, Nov. 27]. Castano's United Self-Defense Forces, the self-appointed exterminators of leftist rebels, label civilians as guerrilla sympathizers and thus make them "legitimate" targets of brutal attacks. Your article's semiheroic depiction of Castano failed to mention that he is responsible for the murder of dozens of peasants, indigenous leaders, union workers, academics, journalists and human-rights activists. JAUME VIDAL CASANOVAS ANA MARIA GOMEZ LOPEZ Washington...
...spent the next two days in the hospital, and during that time I didn't hear one person mention the presidential election. Televisions were on, but they were either showing old movies or afternoon talk shows that were more concerned with teenage girls who sass their mothers...