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...this remarkablefigure. But instead the film presents Elizabeth'sreign as the results of the actions and failingsof the men around her. She refuses to marry not soshe can better exploit her eligibility as awildcard in international affairs but because herchoices are a sterile marriage of convenience withSpain or shallow wedlock with a Frenchtransvestite. She denounces sex not to reign moreeffectively, but only when her lover is revealedas a married man. Given that the real QueenElizabeth once stated flatly that she "wouldrather be a beggar and single than a queen andmarried," the film's presentation of Elizabeth'saversion...
...hackneyed idea, "you can't judge a book by its cover," and turns it into something breathtakingly beautiful. The story centers around Violetta Valery, a French "courtesan"--basically an upper-class prostitute who provides parties and other entertainments for the members of the upper middle class--who, despite her shallow and flamboyant lifestyle, is caring and gentle at heart. Although she is very weak due to a severe case of tuberculosis, Violetta persists in throwing boisterous fetes that only make her worse, and the opera opens in the midst of one of these late-night revels...
...atypically peaceful scene for those dino-eat-dino days. Amid the shallow streams of a broad floodplain, scores of huge, grazing female dinosaurs were making their nests and hovering near their eggs, as their predecessors had doubtless done for ages untold. But their tranquillity was suddenly disturbed. Out of nowhere came a flood of mud and silt, scattering the lumbering beasts and burying their progeny. The lively dinosaur nursery was lost forever...
...there is a fault to the production, it isthat it had to end--the way it did. Into thesecond act, the momentum so well built up in thefirst begins to wind down. The "Hollywood ending,"with its hurried hodge-podge, shallow staging andgarish coloring, undoes the sophisticatedsubtleties which made the rest of the show sorich. What had promised to be a scorching andsultry tale of thwarted amour and twisted ambitioncatches itself in a burlesque conclusion...
...religion he so belittles, he'd see how Christians can reject some of the harshness of the Old Testament and still refuse to yield on this issue of gay "rights." The sanctity of marriage is not something Christians can toss aside in an effort to conform to a shallow, PC understanding of Christian love and tolerance. BRONWEN C. MCSHEA...