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...authentic food sure doesn’t hurt...
...don’t know her status right now,” Allard said. “She’s a player we rely on to spark usit hurt when she went down...
...editors agree, however, that USA Today has not hurt the circulation of their own papers. Publisher Black is not surprised, since USA Today has never been touted as a replacement for local papers. According to Black, the paper has created a unique audience made up, in part, of those who read hometown papers for local stories and ads but want a comprehensive capsule of national and international news, plus a sizable number of people who were never daily-newspaper buyers until USA Today came along...
Doing hard time in a totalitarian state, the only thing a prisoner has a chance of retaining inviolate is his fantasy life. Of the two men pent up in a South American cell, Luis (William Hurt), a homosexual, has the easier time doing so. His secret life revolves around the fool's-gold romanticism of old movies. To be precise, one World War II melodrama in which, as he remembers and recounts it, the Gestapo were the heroes and the French Resistance the villains. Luis, a decent, motherly sort of chap, doesn't care about all that. He just loves...
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...