Word: sorceresses
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Jackson wears Louis' shroud suavely; he can seduce everyone except Eve. But this is a woman's film, and a showcase for superb actresses. Morgan does especially fine work as a sorceress whose gift runs away with her. The poise and passion in Eve's Bayou leave one grateful, exhausted and nourished. For the restless spirit, here is true soul food...
...scene from Romeo and Juliet together, she catches him, while in her unseeable incarnation, rejecting the friendship of a nerdy classmate. And of course she breaks up with him. In a recent episode of Sabrina, which featured an appearance by Raquel Welch as one of Sabrina's party-loving sorceress aunts, the teenager comes to the realization that a life of whipped-up, round-the-clock pleasure can only lead to hours of emptiness...
...this world, women's sexual escapades, no matter how manipulative, never go punished. Cinemax's Emmanuelle, for instance, is an ageless sorceress who spirits herself into the bodies of men and women all over the world (though mostly places like Cannes and Bali) to help them realize their romantic promise. Like most of the women who populate cable erotica, Emmanuelle limns the fantasies and calls the shots. There we have it: sex goddesses Gloria Steinem can love...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club's production of Medea tries to be both epic and contemporary, and too often just seems stranded somewhere in between. In an effort to update the tale of the exiled sorceress who kills her children to spite her unfaithful husband, this production offers plenty of modern allusions, which work only with varying success...
These elements detract from some of the better performances. Jennifer Sun is excellent as Medea. Her portrayal of the sorceress as a strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...