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...Evita It might have been an Oliver Stone political screed or a Ken Russell hallucinogen; the lead actress might have been Meryl Streep or Michelle Pfeiffer. But here it is--20 years after Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber first produced their gorgeously cynical opera about Eva Peron--reimagined through the eye of director Alan Parker and the flesh of Madonna. The take is dense and studious, an aptly conservative adaptation of a pop classic; it lets the score seduce and the star shine. Madonna, who is up to the vocal demands of the role, makes Eva--sexual predator, social...
Christopher Columbus receives more than his share of bad press nowadays, a recent example being David Brown's screed in Saturday's Crimson, I would like to invite your readers to consider some facts which will make possible a more objective assessment of Columbus and his achievement...
...surprised when the New York Post and the Washington Times reported wild allegations from a slapped-together and unsubstantiated book about the Clintons. But when a formerly immune host such as ABC's David Brinkley succumbed to the infection and gave airtime to the screed's author, retired FBI agent Gary Aldrich, the sickness had reached epidemic proportions...
...Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic Movies...
...source." Soon he was writing to the San Francisco Chronicle, threatening to blow up an airplane out of Los Angeles, which caused security to be tightened for several days. He promised to stop if the Times and the Washington Post would publish his magnum opus, a 35,000-word screed against industrial society and modern civilization. He said he was growing tired of making bombs. "Certainly his ending his level of seclusion to the point of submitting the manifesto and writing letters," says Ken Thompson, a domestic-terrorism specialist who retired from the FBI last year, "indicated someone...