Word: opera
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...much fun. We save up our enthusiasm during the off years, developing a hungry curiosity not just for the Games but also for the place. The first Olympics of the millennium will be held in Sydney, Australia, a Pacific Rim capital city. Its spectacular harbor and opera house are among the world's most dramatic settings, superbly fit for what will unfold next week. The harbor is also the site of a signature Australian event, the triathlon, a lung-burning triad of swimming, cycling and running that will be making its Olympic debut. That Australia's famous sharks...
...glaring menace, Karelin--who weighed 15 lbs. at birth--has a gentle side. A fan of opera (particularly Mussorgsky), ballet and theater, he is especially fond of poetry and has written verse. This Bunyanesque figure is a husband and the father of three children, including a daughter who was born this year...
...case of Betty Sizemore (a divinely innocent Renee Zellweger), the effect is a spectacular one. A hash-house waitress in Fair Oaks, Kans., she has always been a fan of A Reason to Love, a television soap opera of the General Hospital type. Traumatized, in what the shrinks call a fugue state, she completely enters the soap's slightly tacky alternative reality. Convinced that its leading hunk, Dr. David Ravell (the amusingly actorish Greg Kinnear), is her long-lost fiance, she sets off for Los Angeles, intent on rekindling this imaginary old flame...
...script's lines. Zellweger blooms in this context. Her naivete is radical, of course, but that imparts a fierce serenity to her quest. Mostly, the people she encounters on the road and in Los Angeles quickly come to understand that she is off her rocker--except the soap-opera folk, who think she's an actress going to any lengths for a job--but there is such sweetness in her determination, such an endearing faith in the destiny she alone perceives, that they help her along. Zellweger is lovely in the role...
...plugged through a sound system or he's sitting down in a string quartet, Slava has a fantastic ability to absorb the spirit of a work, and to transport the audience into a sound world," says Australian composer Nigel Westlake, whose new guitar concerto Grigoryan will premiere at the Opera House, "and that's a rare and exciting gift...