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...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...
...short, he's a very human being. And typical of this actor, not one crying out for sympathy. We may come to care for Leon Zat, but slowly, almost grudgingly. We may come to care for LaPaglia, too, a 42-year-old Aussie now residing in the U.S., but on a similar basis--respecting his craft without necessarily adoring the craftsman...
Detective Leon Zat, wonderfully played by a gruff Anthony LaPaglia, suffers intermittent chest pains and more or less permanent heartache. He's rather grimly cheating on his wife, mostly because men of a certain age tend to do that. He can't quite control his anger and has become abusive with suspects. He's particularly hard on John Sommers (Geoffrey Rush), whose psychiatrist wife (Barbara Hershey) mysteriously disappeared on an Australian back road one night. He's convinced that this arrogant man must be a murderer...
From the strictly traditional (Dinah Washington on “Silent Night”) to the commercially traditional (Jimmy Smith on “Jingle Bells”) to the decidedly un-traditional (Louis Armstong on “Zat You, Santa Claus”), there is hardly an errant note on their disc. Joe Williams, with his voice of liquid gold, oozes sophistication from every pore during “Let it Snow!” Sentimental and sweet without ever saccharine, Williams’ arrangement presents perhaps the best version of the song ever recorded. Pianist Bill Evans...