Word: michael
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That one exception is David Michael Berti as Sir Eglamour, the bit part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism...
...Michael Kaplan maintains the high energy level and turns in an equally polished performance as Charles Sidley, a London accountant with a three-piece suit and bowler hat, who has hired Christoforou to investigate the suspicious activities of his wife, Belinda. As a man incapable of showing emotion, Charles could be one-dimensional; but Kaplan reveals Charles's inner emotions with an occasional sigh, wince, or tightening of his lips...
HAIR Directed by Milos Forman; Screenplay by Michael Weller...
...project looked doomed, it was this one. Hair's source, the 1968 Broadway hit, was a largely plotless, if tuneful, show that homogenized the '60s for theater audiences; even at the time, it was dated. The movie's creators -Czech-born Director Milos Forman, Playwright Michael Weller, Choreographer Twyla Tharp-have never previously negotiated the perilous tides of movie musicals. Add a largely unproven cast and a grand budget, and you can see just how hairy an undertaking this movie was. One false move, and Hair would have congealed into Grease...
...efforts to smuggle books to Christians in Eastern Europe. Today Bible smuggling is carried on by a network of at least 40 Protestant organizations pursuing the world's most extraordinary missionary venture. Much support comes from U.S.-based organizations, notably L. Joe Bass's Underground Evangelism and Michael Wurmbrand's Jesus to the Communist World. At any one time, dozens of smugglers, both professionals and one-shot amateurs, may be crossing borders in Bible-bearing cars, vans or trains. The Bibles are given out free, paid for by Western contributors...