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...PASSING of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company last fall was the occasion for just as much gloating as mourning. A vocal contingent of inveterate Gilbert and Sullivan scorners saw the company's demise as a fitting end for the world's leading enforcer of dramatic stagnation. Thousands of deserving new plays are written each year, they grumbled happily--how preposterous it was to sink in so much money to produce the same few operettas over and over again...
Unfortunately, more than "modest" support is needed if the Foundation is ever to rise above ground level. Without active and vocal supporters and an infusion of resources and personnel--the Foundation will undoubtedly die a quiet death, its hopes and promises unfulfilled...
This expensive, technically proficient remake of a 1933 German movie focuses on the adventures of a starving singer. Victoria (Julie Andrews) who is befriended by a failing gay nightclub entertainer. Toddy (Robert Preston). He appreciates her vocal talents and realizes how to market her. She becomes Victor, a delicate, unknown member of the Eastern European nobility who is Paris's greatest female impersonator. Enter King (James Garner), a Chicago gangster who becomes Victoria's love interest but refuses to accept the label of homosexuality his low-life companions attach to him because of his association with "Victor." Complications ensue...
Ferry and Carrabino played superbly by any conventional standards Averaging almost 15 points per game and leading the league in free-throw shooting with an 89.8 percent mark. Carrbino battled bravely inside and served as the team's most vocal on-court cheerleader...
...producers are seldom content to let hell enough alone. Vocal references to rape are accompanied by screams and wails; at the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony-a wartime symbol for victory-the screen fills with hundreds of Morse code Vs, dots and dashes rendered in red, white and blue. As Taylor recites Pavel Friedman's famous ghetto poem, The Butterfly, an animated sun fills a small room, and a Disneyesque creature flaps through, cheapening a transcendent human document...