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...well-covered case of New Hampshire high school instructor Pamela Smart, convicted in 1991 of persuading her teenage lover to kill her husband. In Maynard's novel the cold-blooded, career-obsessed killer is Suzanne Maretto, who hungers to become the next Barbara Walters. Her husband is a sweet-tempered restaurant manager, and her lover is an emotionally fragile teenage...
...that good fortune dulls their sense of social responsibility. When they hire a handyman, he is (as they might prefer to put it) "differently abled" -- a sweet-souled retardate named Solomon (Ernie Hudson, in a nicely judged performance). When in the course of a prenatal examination Claire is sexually abused by a gynecologist, she comes to feel, after suitable soul searching, that she has no choice but to bring charges against the doctor in order to save others from her experience...
...Sweet and sentimental and, yes, a little slow, this adaptation of a beloved children's book is gorgeous and Freudianly evocative to look at, melodic and poignant to hear, innocent and hugely satisfying in its emotional climax. The only worthwhile American musical...
...Sweet and sentimental and, yes, a little slow, this adaptation of a beloved children's book is gorgeous and Freudianly evocative to look at, melodic and poignant to hear, innocent and hugely satisfying in its emotional climax. The only worthwhile American musical...
...emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley, and you are in a valley . . ."). It's diverting and spectacular in a rather sweet, good-humored way. And that, despite the dark shadow of the guillotine, is the prevailing mood of Ghosts and the reason for its effectiveness. The final image: Marie Antoinette and Beaumarchais strolling tranquilly together in their Fragonard paradise...