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(3 of 3) In the 50s, Italian films were often disguised as Hollywood films. They were in English (as released here) and usually boasted an American male star surrounded by a busty bambina and a cast of local scenery-chewers. Anthony Quinn must have had dual citizenship back then: he...
Last week was the deadliest one for U.S. soldiers since this war began. We know this because the headlines told us of the seven Marines who died when their KC-130 Hercules slammed into a mountain in Pakistan. But we know more than this.
So the miraculous has become mundane. Nothing new there: it is in the nature of pop culture to allow the vagrant innovation, then stretch it into a trend by pounding it into a formula. In the Disney cartoon "renaissance," the excitement of the first ones, from The Little Mermaid to...
To its credit, Tresnjak’s production does make a nod to the tragic implications of the tale for the young lovers at its center. Informed by Zeus of his nefarious doings and of Alcmena’s pregnancy with a child named Hercules, the couple end the play...
"Jason" fared poorly with both critics and the public. The market was glutted with dubbed, Grade-Z reworkings of Greek and Roman sagas, a cycle that began with the unexpected success of the campy Steve Reeves "Hercules" in 1959. But "Jason" has aged well, primarily because of its fine cast...