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...lady has sung. The most spectacularly miserable marriage of the century is officially over. Prince Charles and DIANA are now free to hit the singles bars. Oddly enough, they didn't. On the day the divorce was finalized, Diana went to a party at the English National Ballet, still wearing--it was noted in bold type by the press--her wedding and engagement rings. Charles ponied up the $31 for the final divorce fee, but he let London retailers know he would no longer be paying his ex's shopping bills. He spent the week at the family manse, Balmoral...
...opening cut, Planet of Love, has a blue-eyed bluesy aggressiveness that Barnett builds nicely from a throaty murmur into a dominatrix growl; it's an invitation to a dangerous liaison, delivered deadpan. A Simple I Love You has the same let's-fall-in-love message, this time sung not as a come-on but as a last chance for human contact. Barnett brings to this lovely plaint a maturity as amazing as Rimes' vocal virtuosity; she's the woman with a past, hoping for a future. It all promises well for her own future--we can imagine...
There was something quite moving about this strangely-united crowd singing the anthem. It was the first time I had sung the "Star Spangled Banner" in public since the last time I attended a Red Sox game six years before (my patriotism and Boston team spirit seem to have dissapated at approximately the same time...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...this era of outrageous, genrebending, over-the-top films, it seems imposible that a mere "musical" first released in 1964 could shock our desensitized ninties selves. But the newly re-released "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a sung-through, "faux technicolor" kitsch-binge, is downright obscene in its shameless, ecstatic campiness...