Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enlisting Wagner to carry the standards of Rockefeller and Rose. Wagner says that he bumped into Rocky three weeks ago at the première of the movie Lost Horizon (also, appropriately, a remake), and from their conversation emerged the vision of Wagner's recapturing his own Shangri-La as mayor. As Wagner tells it: "He said he thought it would be a great thing if I ran. And he added: 'Gee, we fought, but at least you kept your word.' " Liberal Rose, who figured that Wagner was the man most likely to stop Biaggi or Marchi...
There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...original, Hero Hugh Conway (Peter Finch) is a sort of nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley...
...hard to pinpoint where Bette is at her best. Her "Lullaby of Broadway/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" medley, choreographed with her bumping and grinding Harlettes, opened the second act with overpowering excitement, and her version of "Leader of the Pack," acted out to poignant Shangri-La-type humming, captivated the mob. Bette Midler is equally at home with more sensitive and lyrical songs. Her version of "Delta Dawn" and her breathy "Am I Blue" left the audience breathless...
...role was one of the choicest movie plums in years: Catherine, the beguiling Shangri-La schoolmistress in the musical remake of Lost Horizon. The actress had to combine a peasant beauty with innate grace, be sweet yet sexy, and convey enough emotional depth to make Peter Finch-or any other man-willing to trudge over a snow-blown Himalaya for her. Audrey Hepburn was the sort of woman the part called for, and in fact Audrey was one of the prime prospects. But the part went to Liv Ullmann...