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During his six years as Senate majority leader, Maine's GEORGE MITCHELL never presented himself as one of Congress's more magnetic leaders. But the publicly stolid statesman, who gave up his seat last year, must have maintained a very different dating persona. In an upcoming Vanity Fair interview, Mitchell's new wife HEATHER MACLACHLAN, formerly an agent for tennis pros, recalls their first meeting this way: "Right away he seemed so special. I could sense his individuality, his sense of humor. It was obvious that he had so much confidence in himself as a human being...
...more Freudian. One touching moment comes when Sainte Colombe and his two daughters are giving a recital and Madeline, the oldest girl, eagerly tries to make her father smile while he maintains his mask-like grimace. As a patriarch, teacher and companion, Marielle's Sainte Colombe is a stolid and laconic figure, and it is only through listening to his sounds (played by Jordi Savall), the cries and tears made by his viola, that we get to know...
...scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel's stolid awkwardness is rather ingratiating. He may not have been classic TV material, but Herb was the better actor...
...some of the overstimulated moral idiocy of the secular world, I think that in two areas -- 1) contraception and 2) ordination and the role of women -- the church has gone needlessly, dangerously astray. John Paul II, who should be one of the greatest Popes, has settled for a curiously stolid "Here I stand." Strangely unevolved, he seems thus diminished in what should be a triumphant time...
Normally, watching the awarding of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film is a painful and disappointing experience. Instead of rewarding excellent or innovative films, the stolid voters usually opt for something ponderous and portentous--recall the year that the excruciatingly tedious "Pelle the Conqueror' won over "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." So it was refreshing to watch this year's Oscar go to the Spanish entry, Fernando Trueba's "Belle Epoque." Trueba's film isn't necessarily a cinematic masterpiece, something like "The Piano." But given Trueba's more modest goal of entertainment, the film succeeds quite...