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...Renata Brink, 47, casts a wary eye as her two sons, aged four and nine, plot their next moves at the crowded playground. Her explanation for the apparent baby boom is that the newborns and their happy parents are like magnets attracting other parents and even more hopeful couples to this corner of the city. "It seems everybody has kids, so you have a great network for families," she says...
...played Anthony Michael Hall’s pal in “Sixteen Candles.” Instead of Minnie Driver (“Good Will Hunting”) as the love interest, we’re presented with Connie Nielson (“Gladiator”) who plays Renata, a strip club manager. Nielson’s overly seductive, annoyingly serious Renata is no match for Driver’s subdued wit in “Grosse Pointe Blank.” Also, while the storyline of “Grosse Pointe Blank” was unique and attention...
...Wichita is a philosophically open question,” he says. “How did we end up in this sexual bus stop in purgatory?”But glimmers of the Cusack Character shine through in his interactions with strip club manager and full-time love interest Renata (Connie Nielsen). The raspy-voiced, loose-bloused vixen and her come-hither advances seem too good to be true to the passive Charlie, and her femme fatality is a constant mystery of the film. “She’s almost an aesthetic creation…not a real...
...always been a prime exponent of Italian opera in the U.S., a kind of La Scala West. Under Carol Fox, its late founder and general manager, Maria Callas made her American debut in a sizzling Norma, and the Lyric became home to such 1950s and '60s legends as Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Baritone Tito Gobbi. By 1980, though, economic troubles had put the company $300,000 in the red, and Fox was forced to resign...
...DIED. RENATA TEBALDI, 82, Italian soprano whose rich, lyrically expressive tones prompted the demanding maestro Arturo Toscanini to call hers "the voice of an angel"; at her home in San Marino, a republic surrounded by central Italy. Adored from Milan's La Scala to New York's Metropolitan Opera, she once drew so many curtain calls at the Met that she finally had to appear onstage with her coat...