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...missing a more complex idea of what women, and movies, can be? "Years ago, in the '50s and film noir," says Irwin Winkler, a producer of Enough, "women were tough and often very bad. Nowadays, the women are very good and have to become tough to defend themselves." Their goodness is usually defined by the bad things done to them...
...seeing the savory side of the bottle aging?a certain leathery character and a lot of lanolin." Travel in New Zealand and you had better learn to speak the language of vintners and wine tasters. You might find yourself chatting about Cabernet with a cabbie, and Pinot Noir with a parking attendant...
Soft-spoken former journalist Alan Brady founded the vineyard in 1987 but soon tired of the endless promoting and tourism. He moved down the road to start again, this time in search of the perfect Pinot Noir. "I really wanted to get back to the reality of wine," he says, his nose deep in a glass of his latest vintage, "which for me is getting tired and dirty at harvest time." He takes a sip and smiles. "Now I am not driven by any market demands?I am producing the wine I want to and the market seems to like...
...they are marching through our American classics, retooling them and throwing them back at us. And lately they have been stumbling. Acclaimed director Nicholas Hytner, soon to take over London's National Theatre, couldn't solve the problem of how to turn Sweet Smell of Success, the film-noir classic, into a Broadway musical. Trevor Nunn's production of Oklahoma!, which won raves in London, failed to wow the critics in its Broadway debut. The problems can't be totally explained by union rules that usually prevent British casts from making the trip over here. The question is, Have...
...Sweet Smell" is noir, oui - but as brisk as the winter nights on which Sidney refuses to wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their...