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...most concerned about the possibility of three speeches from Roberto Benigni, nominated as writer, director and star of Life Is Beautiful. As he told the New York Times last week, his movie is "about three little clowns--myself, my wife and the boy--in the most terrifying place in the world. It's a movie about how to protect your innocence, your purity, in the face of evil." What else can one say but Yikes! The only thing worse than listening to mawkish European comics lecture about innocence is listening to mawkish $20 million-a-picture American movie stars...
...Roberto Benigni, the director-writer-producer-actor, has crafted a film that walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy. A few critics have condemned it because it "lightens" the impact of the Holocaust, but such complaints are infuriatingly ignorant. In fact, Benigni's story of a father trying to protect his son from the horrors of a concentration camp is the type of movie that grips you, gives you chills and ultimately leaves you speechless. An overwhelmingly beautiful work...
...Roberto Benigni, the director-writer-producer-actor, has crafted a film that walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy. A few critics have condemned it because it "lightens" the impact of the Holocaust, but such complaints are infuriatingly ignorant. In fact, Benigni's story of a father trying to protect his son from the horrors of a concentration camp is the type of movie that grips you, gives you chills and ultimately leaves you speechless. An overwhelmingly beautiful work...
Several young singers have been touted as possible successors to the first two tenors, but so far they have had about as much luck as Joan Rivers had in giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into...
Under the frenzied yet fantastic con-ducting of Roberto Abbado, Mahler's work builds up until the final movement, when all of the ominous pressure that had been maliciously swimming at the bottom of the music suddenly leaps forth in an explosion of sound. Abbado led the orchestra to the symphony's profound and dramatic conclusion with a zeal that matched the intensity (and volume) of the piece itself. On his podium, Abbado demonstrated what all great conductors should strive to do--he nearly became the music, in all of its near-violent splendor. By the time he finally...