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...someone did--but the script does a good job of illustrating the action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more as a juicy religio-political soap opera, in which respect it is as satisfying as its predecessor (which Sci Fi is rerunning on March...
...Cinema Novo rivaled the French and Italian new waves, and Chile's Ra?l Ruiz (now self-exiled in Paris) has long had a substantial European following. But starting in the '70s, Latin cinema's funding, talent and audience got sucked away by telenovelas - the cheesy, prime-time TV soap operas that still overwhelm Latin entertainment. In the '70s, Brazilian films held an impressive 35% of the domestic market; by 1991, when fewer than half a dozen Brazilian features were made, the share had dropped to 0.5%. The return to form began in the '90s. As statism gave way to capitalism...
...actor who helped popularize postwar Italian comedies; in Rome. The working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...first-years pulse to a grinding beat in a Mather suite under a shower of beer falling from the cans held high above their heads. A typical scene…from the Harvard Radcliffe Television (HRTV) soap opera “Ivory Tower...
Both sides of the standoff can learn from the creativity of Soap Lake. Faced with three difficult challenges, Soap Lake came up with an imaginative solution, one that not only bonded citizens from all parts of society, but will also, “after 14 million years, return lava to Soap Lake.” Yes, the designers are former hippies—one ponytail reaches mid-back. Such creativity seems impossible here in Cambridge, where the fifty-somethings on both sides cut their hair long ago—there’s nothing left to let down. Harvard briefly...