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Carol Ann (Stockard Channing, making up for her dismal performance in "Smoke"), says to Swayze's Vita as the queens take off for L.A., "I don't think of you as a man. I don't think of you as a woman. I think of you as an angel." Please...
...Vita Poole, a representative of the local Red Cross chapter, said that they were not giving people free plane rides to Oklahoma because they had not been asked for volunteers...
...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
Brilliant acting is the reason to see the tepid Vita & Virginia...
...play, cunningly directed by actress Zoe Caldwell, spans the relationship, from cat-and-mouse flirtation to Woolf's suicide. The women speak the texts of their letters directly to each other, with laser intensity. Redgrave is a magnetic Vita, a free spirit in pearls and riding breeches (she was the model for Woolf's Orlando). Though not as well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison...