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...Chicago's Comiskey Park Red Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license...
Otherwise we will have governments cynically dispatching their national treasures all over the world, like greeting cards. France sent the Mona Lisa to Japan; Los Angeles is asking Italy for the Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...
...also produced, in the spirit of old-master quotation that ran through his silk-screened work in the early 1960s, a suite of variations on well-known paintings: Botticelli's Venus, that hardy standby of the Pop sensibility the Mona Lisa, and Gustave Courbet's rosy, meaty image of two lesbians-one of them Whistler's mistress-sprawled in amorous sleep. At times, as in All Abordello Doze 3, 1982, the degree of interference by overprinting, cutting and juxtaposition almost buries the motif in a landslide of variations, and yet Rauschenberg's close, laconic grasp...
Cher, as the never-aging sex-pot Cissy, becomes the perfect foil for the unstable Mona. Her character has had the same wonderful figure--boobs and all--for 20 years and she resounds with a sensuous good humor. In this difficult role, Cher doesn't allow her character to become a stereotypical, dizzy nymph. In fact, she uses her sensuality and dark good looks to present a raunchy woman who has more to offer than a mane of wavy black hair. Cher shows a new side of her abilities as an actress with the fluidity of her movements that reveal...
...Although she doesn't come into the movie until the plot has been underway for quite some time, Black's Joann breaks the trance-like spell that pervades the reunion; she forces cruel reality to enter into the plot as her character causes the later revelations of Cissy and Mona to occur. The information she reveals undermines everyone's position and tests the fervor of their characters...