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...original wild man of rock 'n' roll struck a chord with the tiny-bopper set last year with a rambunctious rendition of Itsy Bitsy Spider that appeared on For Our Children, a benefit album for pediatric AIDS victims. Now he's back with Shake It All About, a collection of 12 children's classics all done up in Little Richard's flagrantly flamboyant style. He turns On Top of Spaghetti into a rhythm-and-blues lament, raps his way through If You're Happy and You Know It and performs a funky, fanny-wiggling version of The Hokey Pokey...
...film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text to texture in vintage film-noir style. Othello: the postwar man who feels betrayed by his wife. Desdemona: the innocent woman brutalized by her suspicious spouse...
Julia, who came to the United States from Puerto Rico in 1964, has starred in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), The Addams Family (1991) and New York Shakespeare Festival productions...
Referring throughout the talk to his own works, which deal with subjects ranging from the history of English to varieties of puns, the author said the usually answers the question, "Where do you get your ideas from?" with the question, "Where does the spider...
King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King -- "that bottled spider, that pois'nous bunch-back'd toad...