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...Brown, having opened a legal Pandora's box, continue to live together with the two youngest of their five children. Says Mrs. Brown of her spouse-defendant: "We get along...
...surrounded by volumes of literary classics. "Most beautiful-but-dumb girls think they are smart, and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter," she tells him. Smitten with images of Louise's dark, gamy sexuality in such films as Pandora's Box and Prix de Beaute, Tynan is now thoroughly captivated by the frail star's reminiscences of her fast, libidinous life. It is an erotic meeting of minds. "When we were talking on the phone," she says, "some secret compartment inside me burst, and I was suddenly overpowered...
...television programs, play video cassettes, accept cassettes of prerecorded commercial shows and, with use of an optional camera, produce home movies, all playable on the user's own TV set. The VTR's primary function, taping TV shows off the air, has opened a new kind of Pandora's box. In 1976 two of the biggest movie production companies filed suit, charging Sony Corp., the first firm to market VTRs in the U.S., some of its retailers and others, with copyright infringement, interference with the sale of recorded programs to broadcasters and "unjust enrichment." They demanded that...
...Shade sings her precipitous vocal lines strongly and accurately, which is more of an achievement than it may sound. But she only acts out bewitching allure; she does not embody it. During rehearsals, the cast screened Louise Brooks' Lulu in the 1928 silent film of Wedekind's Pandora's Box- which may partly account for Shade's tendency to play the role as a jazz-age vamp...
Director Peter Sellars chose to combine two Wedekind plays--Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box--that were treated in Berg's opera Lulu. Wedekind, writing in the late 19th century, deliberately set out to shock and horrify the conventional polite society of his time. Some of the melodramatic trappings of his play stem from his desire to force members of what he saw as a stuffy and hypocritical society to recognize the sex, passion and greed that lay at the foundation of their relationships. In Lulu, Wedekind describes the rise and fall of a peculiarly passionless beauty who works herself...