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...past nor the future." The place: the planet Krull, under enemy attack from metallic meanies who could be the second front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...
...Like The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Concert is an odyssey of sorts through a magical land. Unfortunately, however, the plot of this musical is not as refined as the orderly progression down the yellow brick road. Instead Alice in Concert is rather densely packed with the musical numbers seeming to follow a patchwork order that lead to a somewhat muddled end. But the cast overcomes this one foible in the material, treating each number individually without trying to make each song blend into a climactic conclusion--which really never comes. Instead this production is more like a musical cabaret...
...intriguing combination of talents. To film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction bestseller Dune, Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 63, has attracted the likes of Director David Lynch (The Elephant Man), Special Effects Wizard John Dykstra (Star Wars) and a cast that includes Sting, 31, the leader and vocalist of rock's hottest group, the Police. In the established tradition of such rockers turned actors as Mick Jagger and Deborah Harry, Sting brings to Dune his own past credits, from Quadrophenia and Brimstone and Treacle. Not to mention an ability to whip himself up into a manic frenzy...
...this be topped? No. Added to? Taken apart for demonstration? Spoofed? Hardly. But here is Jerome Robbins, an eminent choreographer and veteran theatrical wizard, presenting it all as a 35-minute classical ballet complete with toe shoes. In any serious sense he does not succeed. New York City Ballet, alas, does not have any girls as sexy as Rita, nor any boys who even set one thinking of Fred. The secret formula for the chemistry of Astaire's ballroom duets remains intact. Despite all this, Robbins, shrewd old romantic that he is, has come up with a diverting piece...
...lectern in London's Guildhall last week was Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who received this year's $170,000 Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion. The award, inaugurated in 1972 by U.S. Mutual Fund Wizard John M. Templeton, cited the Nobel-prizewinning Soviet exile as a "pioneer in the renaissance of religion in atheist nations" and a "living symbol of the continuing vitality of the Orthodox tradition of spirituality...