Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's ending is its greatest diappointment. It builds to a series of fast-paced dramatic scenes, full of blood and violence and disappointed love, but than deflates all of the fear and pain and passion by killing off the bad guys and letting the good guy--George--just get up and leave...
Isabelle Huppert, 33, has spent most of her busy career in French films, including Passion and Entre Nous (both 1983) and, opening in the U.S. this week, Sincerely Charlotte, directed by her sister Elisabeth, 38. Of her two previous American-made outings, Rosebud (1975) struck few sparks and Heaven's Gate (1980) dropped a megaton bomb. Undaunted, Huppert is trying English again. Cactus, an Australian drama, opens in October, and she just finished shooting a mystery in Baltimore called The Bedroom Window. She plays a sultry, sophisticated woman, a "black angel," as she puts it, who cheats on her husband...
...rated woman player, Evert. Before long, like Claude Rains or Mr. Thatcher, he began to disappear (to 331st). After Evert spoke publicly of losing respect for her vanishing husband, Lloyd fought his way back into the 30s and even to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. But his passion was not for winning. "If I wanted it more, maybe I would have gone higher. Maybe I didn't have the champion's mentality of sacrificing everything to one aim. If that's bad, that...
...perhaps Gonzalez's greatest achievement has been to bring Spain into the European political mainstream. Said Jean Enkaoua, special correspondent of the French daily Le Dauphine Libere: "Spanish elections are no longer the stuff of passion and risk...
...come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided walk across the Sea of ! Galilee. Still, Heritage is not your everyday theme park. Now and again, lifeguards shut down the swimming pool to perform a baptism, and at Eastertide the song-and-dance acts are replaced by a Passion play. In a salon of the 500- room hotel, blue-haired grannies sip tea (no alcohol is served) as a harpist plays nearby. "Jim Bakker grew up and asked, 'Why can't everything be nice?' " reports Aide Richard Dortch. The genteel slickness of Heritage USA is Bakker's answer to that...