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What, then, are these atrocities performed upon Shakespeare's defenseless classic? First, Sellars has combined the roles of Leonato and Friar Francis into a new character named "Monsieur Love" (Chris Clemenson)--not a mortal sin, since the new character lives up to his fabricated name by playing matchmaker, always presiding over some new combination of lovers, and since Clemenson plays the part with a consistently benign, endearing manner...
Lawrence Durrell has written a duet of novels (Tune and Nunquam) and The Alexandria Quartet. Now he is literally trying to go himself one better. Livia is a mirror image and extension of Monsieur (1975), and Durrell has promised that three more novels in this series will follow...
...course, in Moliere, the best laid plans always go astray. Arnolphe--who has recently adopted the name Monsieur de la Souche for its noble connotations--meets Horace, the dashing young son of an old friend. Horace loses no time in asking Arnolphe for money to help him further his romantic pursuit of a beautiful young woman who has been imprisoned by a jealous old fool. You guessed it--the woman is Agnes and the old fool is M. de la Souche. The plot revolves around Arnolphe's frantic attempts to keep the persistent Horace away from his ward--a task...
...help being charged here. My senses are heightened and I'm continually on edge. I keep saying, 'Wow! Is this really happening?' " Jacques Murphy, 46, notwithstanding his surname, is a French-descended Quebecois whose family has lived in Canada for five generations. Last September Monsieur Murphy and his wife Pierrette, also 46, loaded their two children and household belongings into two cars for the 1,654-mile trip from Montreal to Hollywood, Fla. Murphy had sold his insurance brokerage business, an office building and their house. The reasons for their departure, according to Murphy, were increasing governmental...
...hide her sensuality as well; she demands special behavior from Momo, and the more he complies the more obvious her special attention to Momo at the expense of the other children becomes. As he grows older not only does he become more convinced that what his Moslem mentor Monsieur Hasil says is true--to live you have to love something or someone--and he begins to focus that love on Madame Rosa...