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...darkened stage, a white-faced clown with bulbous nose, orange woolen wig and baggy red-and-white costume sits at a table reading a large book marked Bible. He eats from a box of popcorn as big as a milk crate. Beside him two mimes in blue leotards do their silent best to act starved. When the clown notices, he merely makes the sign of the cross and calmly resumes reading-and eating. Now a large banner unfurls upstage saying FEED THE HUNGRY! At last the clown gets the message and hands small bags of popcorn to the mimes. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Becoming Fools for Christ | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

BRIAN DePALMA'S Dressed to Kill is a steamy, lurid thriller involving a sexually-dissatisfied Manhattan housewife. her brainy teenage son, her psychiatrist, an expensive call girl, and a transvestite killer wearing dark sunglasses and a dirty blond wig, wielding a straightrazor. The story proper is too silly to waste space explaining. You get a sharp sense of the confusion at the film's center when you realize that DePalma plundered the plot, the essential development of jolts, twists and red herrings, from Hitchcock's Psycho. There are two shower sequences, and a murder in an elevator--which is pretty...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: You Can Dress Her Up... | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...question of torrid nude scenes. Rather, as she observes, "it's a strange sensation to play myself." Sophia is less flustered by her other part in Sophia, a TV movie based on A.E. Hotchner's 1979 biography. Indeed, she needs little more than a blond wig and her own vivid memories to portray her stunning mother, Romilda Villani, now 64. "My mother is everything," says the adoring daughter. "She is beautiful, instinctive and with the craziness of the artist in her, something I've had to control in myself." Sophia plays Mama to Letizia d'Adderio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1980 | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...shower stall. An attractive, restless blond, whose search for sexual fulfillment will lead her to an ominous rented room. A man, whose schizophrenic lust turns him into a knife-wielding killer in a cheap wig and dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knife of Brian | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...Francisco Opera's new production of Amilcare Ponchielli's sprawling, lurid La Gioconda last September was a vast undertaking, and PBS station KCET had the wit to record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening Night­The Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Backstage | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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