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...fait accompli - "the Material Girl finally goes domestic!" - that it'd be fair to say it produced no broken hearts among male pop fans. On December 2, 2000, however, I'm a proud enough fanboy to admit that I felt a slight twinge of envy when Latin music megastar Thalía, 28, tied the knot with music mogul and Mariah-molder Tommy Mottola, 52, in a $3 million wedding ceremony at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...Though a superstar in her native Mexico and many other countries from Greece to the Philippines, Thalía is only known in the U.S. to one large section of the populace, namely those who follow Latin pop music (you know, the kind MTV refuses to air at any time - the kind in Spanish) and regularly watch the telenovelas seen on the three Spanish-language networks. Thalía's fans as a whole have been politely avoiding the somewhat Faustian aspect of her romantic merger with Mottola, but the tabloids, both in English and Spanish, haven't been quite...
...told how, after the war's end, Kazuo learned that land promised to his family had been sold to a third party, and we hear tales of his furious attempts to get it back--attempts which allegedly ended in 1954 with the death of local fisherman Carl Heine (Eric Thal). Kazuo is now accused of murdering Heine, and he does not know that he could be freed by evidence held by his wife's childhood sweetheart...
...only really problematic casting choice is that of Eric Thal as Rick, the naive boy from Utah whom Paul cons and seduces. Thal just looks too much like a sexy movie star than like a green kid getting his first experience in the big city...
...STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim to be cute and noble -- E.T.s with yarmulkes. Only Eric Thal, as a young scholar, emerges with dignity intact and prospects bright...