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From Russia without love came a biting film critique in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. The plot is "pretty naive and banal," and the purpose of the film is to "arouse a psychosis against the Soviet Union in the Western countries -the evil atmosphere of days long since gone." The offending movie: Telefon, a U.S. spy flick now being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says...
Sand's last political passion was anti-clericalism. Once again--in her sixtieth year--she became "the political clarion of a rising generation," Barry writes. One of her plays, Villemer, denouncing the clergy's political influence that might one day explode "in a vast plot against social and individual freedom" created an uproar in Paris. Literally thousands of students, Barry claims, mobbed the theatre and "escorted her home to the cries of 'Long live George Sand! Down with the clericalists!'" Several students even attempted to unhitch the horses from her carriage to pull it themselves...
...wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote "positively outrageous poetry" and she went around discovering poets, like Dylan Thomas who were even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80 Facade," An Entertainment' the sparkling musical parodies which William Walton wrote for Sitwell' poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running it these days) decide to let him? "It was just irresistible," Sellars says. At its first performance in 1923, Facade causes such...
...Zefferelli and Prokoviev did to Romeo and Juliet, Vincenzo Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original plot to produce a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's timeless theme," The Capulets and Montagues return to their original Italian from Shakespeare's English in the early May production at the Loeb...
Hawthorne's plot from Rappaccini's Daughter grows into Octavio Paz' own fantasy and philosophy at the Ex March 24-26. Director Antonio Dajer has talked over the play with Paz himself who is currently on leave from Harvard. Dajer '78, will be translating the work himself...