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...Yellow Mercedes, Santa Barbara suburbanites Gladys and Warren Fitzpatrick (Karen Black and Martin Mull) come to buy a child from the Sacred Heart. "We tried a dog." Exuding the charm of a used car salesman and the taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already have a gardener." Finally they take Mouse, and Piper in short order leads what has become by now his gang in a reunion...
RUDOLF NUREYEV has been a highly photogenic figure during his career, both onstage and off: from the filmed ballet, Romco and Juliet, to the television tape of The Sleeping Beauty ballet; from his early exploits in Haight-Ashbury, to tales of his explosive temperament--most recently one about his slapping a clumsy ballerina in the face during a performance. Rudolf Nureyev: I Am a Dancer, is the most comprehensive footage on the man and his work to date, but the film offers little insight into its subject's flamboyant personality. Instead, it tiptoes around the man as though too much...
Symphony Cinema I-Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romco and Julict; and Mia Farrow in Roscmary's Baby. 252 Huntington Ave., near Symphony Hall...
...forth-coming on what should be the proper compromise between the author's original intentions and the alternate treatment made possible, if not mandatory, by modern movie techniques. Those who advocate pure Shakesperean theatre will be able to find many flaws in Director Renato Castellani's new production of Romco and Juliet; those who are willing to accept the more or less necessary changes imposed by the movie from will consider it a generally good adaptation. There will be no quibble with the beauty of the film...
...about my head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke-box in the country, and a superior order of intellectuals debating the problem in higher epistolary fashion, I can only reiterate the main conclusions I came to then: that in my opinion the "Romco and Juliet" fantasy and the last three symphonies are great music, that the two concertos are not, that most of the ballets and tone-poems are second-rate, and that the words "superficial" and "over-sentimental" do not so much describe Tchaikowski's music as the way it is usually...
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