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Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...
...migré choreographer living by his wits, and Lincoln Kirstein, two years his junior and a rich American aesthete with billowing ambitions to further the arts in his country. He invited Balanchine to start a ballet troupe in the U.S. The choreographer replied, "But first a school." As always, Mr. B. was right; a company like the New York City Ballet could not exist with the sketchy training that was available here...
...familiar. Our hero is discovered at his ease, enjoying the sweet rewards of his pugilistic toil, no clouds on his scar tissue. There then lumbers into sight a giant threat not just to his well-being but to all that he--we--holds dear. Yes, literally a giant. Replacing Mr. T in this thankless role is a humongous Soviet called Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Behind this wild bull of the steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship but the superiority of its system over...
...woman who has admitted that she injected Belushi with the fatal drugs, was ordered to stand trial last week for second-degree murder in Los Angeles. Municipal Court Judge James Nelson rejected arguments that Smith was merely a hireling who carried out Belushi's wishes. Said he: "Surely, Mr. Belushi issued the invitation to the dance. But it was an inherently dangerous dance...
...Austen. There is the tug-of-war wedlock of the middle-aged Bennets, she (Marge Redmond) a worrier and a conniver, he (Richard Kiley) a detached and almost enigmatic amateur scholar. There is the frustrating courtship dance between the Bennets' clever, winsome daughter Elizabeth (Jane Kaczmarek) and the rich Mr. Darcy (Peter Gallagher), both too proud to recognize the inevitability of their union. And there is the misguided infatuation of the Bennets' dim daughter Lydia (Jane Fleiss) with a handsome scoundrel...