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Despite its solemn subject matter, Yannatos said the piece is about hope. He cited a line from the last part of the 80-minute chorale, "I dream of the day when my child will say `What...
CARY ELWES as Northumberland's wayward son, Guilford, is solely responsible for the film's comedic angle. A frequent client at all of greater London's bars, bawdy houses, and brothels, the unscrupulous Guilford would seem the least likely martimonial candidate for the solemn and studious Jane. Thanks to the wry wit of screenwriter Edgar, Guilford is never at a loss for words. Countering his nervous bride-to-be's request that they live "as cousins," Guilford tells her that when he was informed of the marriage he was "sampling the pleasures of a certain lady of the evening...
...care of it. "Don't get scared" and "don't get angry" Coke warns the Australian Headquarters. The caveat seems an understatement when we see the incredible yet believable religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant innovation He does however make time for children, old ladies, and animals in distress, which shows that underneath...
...youth, says Show Business Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Once Steven's your friend, you're one of the goonies. I heard him say to someone, 'Good friends like us will stick like tar.' That's Steven, he believes in blood brothers. He makes you think of secret childhood rites and solemn oaths of friendship." Worrell spent long hours on the set to get an inside look at Spielberg's new film The Color Purple, and his upcoming TV series Amazing Stories. She interviewed him over a period of two weeks, and talked with dozens of his friends and associates. She also...
There follows the suspicion that making it is the only American morality. But no -- it can't be that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment...