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...with Orson Welles that it is "the best role that Shakespeare ever wrote" than will share Bernard Shaw's narrow view of the man as "a besotted and disgusting old wretch." We find in him features drawn from the miles gloriosus of ancient Roman comedy, from the stage Vice, Devil, Fool, and Lord of Misrule, from Rabelais and Heaven knows what else-all heightened through Shakespeare's astonishing inventiveness into something far greater than the sum of his parts...
DIED. Curt Jurgens, 69, imposing, sometimes villainous international stage and screen actor whose more than 160 films included The Devil's General (1955), The Blue Angel (1959), The Longest Day (1962) and The Enemy Below (1957); of heart disease; in Vienna...
...rock and roll band'--what else can I do besides sing? The song itself is the only thing that has to do with street fighting." As for the growing cult which bowed to the Stones as the high priests of rock satanism a la "Sympathy for the Devil," well, the Stones didn't really take responsibility for that either. "All this stuff about my leading and perverting them," complained Jagger," . . . we just sort of went along together, didn...
...Rake-inspired by the famous series of Hogarth engravings-tells the story of Tom Rakewell (Tenor Gösta Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright...
...production captures the opera's cautionary moral spirit. Russell, however, is more concerned about a contemporary demon. Tom and Anne are watching TV as the opera opens, and the commercials excite his desire for the wealth flaunted by Nick Shadow. At the end, having fought off one devil, Tom gazes at the other-a TV screen-with fellow mental patients. In a chilling coup de théátre, the principals are led into the asylum, gibbering as they warn of the dangers of idle minds. All are pacified by the set's flickering light: the very picture...