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...Catholic university, and the recriminations that followed, confirmed the extent to which the battle for custody over Elian has become a showdown between Havana and Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban government accused O'Laughlin of lying, cruelty and deceit in her handling of the encounter, while the Dominican nun shot back that the event had been plagued by fear instilled by Havana in the hearts of the grandmothers - and Elian's Florida relatives allowed a leader of the exile community to interview the boy on a live TV broadcast from a car taking him home from the meeting...
...WARNED Remember those Rocky Horror Picture Show sing-alongs, where folks went to the movie dressed up as Brad and Janet? Starting its tour in Britain this week, and planning to hit American shores shortly after, is the Sound of Music Sing-a-Long-a, where moviegoers arrive in nun outfits, in lederhosen or as the whole family Von Trapp. Singing along (the songs are subtitled) is encouraged. Dancing, booing Nazis and whistling are optional. Foam nuns are available in the lobby...
...Western fiction and drama worth reading. But an experiment in Brechtian musical theater this is not. With love ballads about the loss of Christian morality that come across as even more depressing than Tom Stoppard's musings in Jumpers and show-stoppers about the benefits of being a male nun, Durang's songs are more bizarre than his scripts, if that can be believed. Add to this a text that switches languages as quickly and gleefully as it does literary allusions, and you have what very easily could have been a confusing and tedious wreck of a play...
...because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster." Agrado's entry into the action gives the film a sardonic appeal but destroys the integrity of the drama. Penelope Cruz, one of Spain's up and coming actresses, meets Manuela as Sister Rosa, a beautiful young nun impregnated and infected with HIV by none other than the famous and increasingly mythical figure, Lola. Coupled with this twist, Manuela becomes a stage assistant for Huma's run in Barcelona. Thus, melodrama ensues--a transvestite, a nun carrying Esteban's half-brother and a woman on the run from her past...
...Celeste was the convent's herbalist and, judging from her elegantly phrased appeals to her well-connected father, also the impoverished order's chief fund raiser. She was a shrewd manager of the convent's money and kept an eye on her father's house and vineyard. One busy nun...