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...concert opened with a excellent performance of Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto. The BSO lived up to the critical standards set by Pablo Casals' legendary recordings with the help of professional soloists trumpeter Richard Giangiulo, flautist Richard Soule, oboist Barbara LaFitte and violinist Lynn Chang...
...SERVICE OF TRUTH AND BEAUty, mankind has attempted many seemingly impossible tasks down through the ages. Michelangelo transformed a bare ceiling into one of the most beautiful paintings in the world. Pablo Picasso fashioned a stunning work of art out of a pair of abandoned bicycle handlebars, and Marcel Duchamp achieved similar wonders with a cast-off urinal. Now the folks at Home Box Office have topped them all by making a reasonably watchable movie out of a book about a leveraged buyout: Barbarians at the Gate, which will receive its first showing on HBO this Saturday...
...COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY. THAT, IN EFfect, was the response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal. Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine...
...convoluted plot centers on Pablo (Eusebio Poncela), a filmmaker whose fashionable, charmingly tasteless movies resemble Almodovar's. Pablo lives with his brother-cum-sister Tina (Carmen Maura) a religious transsexual actress. Pablo and Tina both want boyfriends...
Their already weird lives are disrupted further when a deranged movie buff named Antonio (Antonio Banderas) decides he'd like a shot at domestic bliss with Pablo. Antonio worms his way into the hearts and beds of both siblings, fixes all their appliances and kills one of their friends. Behind this story rages a giddy post-Franco Madrid filled with Almodovar fixtures: quaaludes, pederast priests, disco-dancing children and haunting boleros...