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"Spectacular sweep, romantic grandeur, narrative richness, an improbably happy, morally instructive ending -- 'Les Miserables' has all the old-fashioned, totally unfashionable virtues," says TIME's Richard Schickel. Claude Lelouch's film, the seventh screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, relocates to the 20th century, mostly during World War...
"Usually plays develop from things that have been bothering me for a while." "Isn't It Romantic" derived its themes from a friend's marriage, nothing more. When Tiven asked what message Ms. Wasserstein had for Jewish women, Wendy stiffened. There was no answer. "Aerobics," she suggested to a roar...
The Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert...
The most objective study so far of the political storms that swept across China in 1989, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" has drawn fire both from both the Tiananmen Square dissidents (who say it discredits the movement) and the Chinese government, notes reviewer Emily Mitchell. In three hours of interviews...
In the second act, Davis narrates an autobiographical side-show of himself (Dana Colt) and various romantic partners (all played by Karyn Levitt) with decidedly mixed results. Colt seems utterly bored with Davis' life, more acutely with his girlfriends and particularly with the script or lack thereof. Most of the...