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Marco Polo takes place on an island off Norway at the end of 1999, in the early light of the 21st century. Diane and Stony McBride (Madeline Kahn and Joel Grey) are the fun couple of the '90s: he is directing a movie about Marco Polo, and she is having an affair with Tom Wintermouth (Chris Sarandon), a global Mr. Fixit who has ingeniously resolved the Arab-Israeli crisis by creating the state of Saudi Israel...
...paper seemed edited for someone with a meticulous interest in the rise and fall of Cabinets in obscure countries. TIME, in its own parvenu days in the shadow of the august Times, used to refer to it saucily, with a mixture of admiration and exasperation, as "the good grey Times...
Throughout its three hours, the film strives for operatic, spectacular effects. Some of the results are aesthetically stunning: at the end of an opera in Dreyden, the huge candle-laden silver chandeliers descend glowing white, gold and silver from the ceiling. Lowered past the grey arches of the boxes, they throw black shadows upwards. Below, dark figures in cocked hats wait, holding huge semicircular fans of metal. Waving these, they fan out the chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice...
...teacher who loved to tell how he won the Silver Star fighting the Nazis in the Big One. But he was no die-hard old soldier. When people realized that we were killing innocent people in Vietnam, he was there in the forefront with the best of them, his grey hair growing long and a massive peace symbol hanging prominently around his neck...
...could never blame him. Sometimes I wish I had grown up in another world, where enemies were not grey and you did not have to fight them with grey matter. Where there was a clear and present evil that I could lay into without pulling punches. But absolutely evil characters only exist in Middle Earth and James Bond movies, so I went to school...