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BIZET: SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR; "L'ARLESIENNE" SUITE (Erato). Grace, style, panache and a certain je ne sais quoi: Bizet had it all. Just what the doctor ordered when you're sick of the three German...
Amber soon finds she has a zaftig rival: Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake), who is plump, perky and, pound for bouffanted pound, the snappiest Caucasian dancer in town. The girl has that je ne sais quoi called Star Quality. Soon Tracy is outshining Amber on TV, modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show...
...Iacocca, autobiographer and star of a popular TV commercial, coming in third -- and he's a registered Republican! No matter. He is, as the pundits used to say, "presidential timber." Only now one says he has "star quality," what the French might call that mysterious "je ne sais quoi." Or, as Woody Allen once put it, that "je ne peux pas." Peter Ueberroth certainly has it. It is only a matter of time before he declares for something or other. Does he belong to a party? Who knows? Who cares? He is made in the U.S.A. That's enough...
...undertaker would have to be included in the closing credits. So finicky is Streep about her profession that when it came time to dub the French sound track for her Polish-born character in Sophie's Choice, she just had to try to provide that je ne sais quoi herself. "I had to audition to show that I could speak the language well enough to play the role," says Streep, who refreshed her knowledge of French with courses and by listening to tapes of a Polish-born Frenchwoman. "It actually worked out very well. I found that...
...move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after all, is Oktoberfest, Mardi Gras and May Day charged up into a massive electronic catharsis: the American version of bread and circuitry. Pontiac just might not be up to that...