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Spider Woman was filmed in Brazil (in English), directed by the Argentine-born Hector Babenco from a script by the American Leonard Schrader and a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. This time the artistic melting pot bubbled to perfection. The film's gaudily stylized performances (notably Hurt's, which has grandeur about it), all its tonalities, both visual and verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted...
...result, I have become the environmental movement's dream convert. I pore over news reports of the latest oil-company atrocity; I hector my family about their oversize vehicles; I buy only organic milk and eggs laid by vegetarian, cage-free, anxiety-free chickens; and I'm an easy mark for any ecoactivist in search of a signature on his petition...
Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...
Since the Catholic church also opposes the death penalty, will the bishops deny Communion to politicians and voters who support capital punishment? HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif...
...just down from university, to help the boys impress their imminent inquisitors. Say the unexpected, he tells them; nurture the odd fact, such as that at the time of the Reformation "14 foreskins of Christ" had been preserved. Don't just be right; that's boring. Make an impression! Hector (Richard Griffiths), the boys' huge, studiously eccentric English teacher, doesn't care where they end up, doesn't believe in the utility of literature. "Useless Knowledge," that's his passion, "the department of Why Bother?" The boys know Larkin's and Auden's and Hardy's poems by heart...