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...actor to don the tights--is on its fourth director, McG (Charlie's Angels), but the lead role is still uncast. Jude Law, Brendan Fraser and Ashton Kutcher have been mentioned; Josh Hartnett has already turned it down. "We have to find Superman," says Dawn Taubin, president of domestic marketing for Warner Bros. Pictures. "That's a big, important piece of the puzzle...
...smaller roles, Jan Miner brings a neat touch of coarseness to the Widow of Florence, undoing her tightly-laced bodice when she sits down to talk; and Amy Taubin has some amusing moments as her seduced daughter Diana. Wyman Pendleton seems to draw strength for the elderly lord Lafew from his walkingstick, whereas the strange Gentleman (Ken Parker) seems to draw his from a bottle. Tom Tarpey makes a valiant attempt at Lavatch, but nothing can hide the fact that this is one of the most tiresome clowns ever penned (in his 1953 production at Stratford, Ontario, Tyrone Guthrie obviated...
...NAOMI TAUBIN...
...Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...
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