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...transferring his 1982 Broadway play to the screen, John Pielmeier has achieved a sort of Jane Fonda Workout of rewriting. He has stripped it of dialogue fat and added muscle and connective tissue. The piece, which took place on a bare stage, now roams through a handsome Quebec abbey and beyond. Within or outside the convent, however, Agnes would be a girlish anachronism. She is of another age--perhaps 13, perhaps the 13th century. She believes, like a medieval ascetic, that any seeker of sanctity should flagellate the sins out of her body, and she is convinced that the child...
DIED. Gale Sondergaard, 86, character actress of stage and screen who specialized in sleekly villainous roles, most memorably as the sinister Spider Woman in two movies (1944 and '46), and who won a supporting-actress Oscar for Anthony Adverse (1936); in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Spitzer's rebuttal: "They have never developed a category. It's easy to say it's chaotic and mock the use of the computer, but that's how a committee works. You put it on the screen so everybody can see it." He spoke in the aggrieved tones of a man who has just spent five hours bending over backward and is now being attacked anyway. Hanging in the air was the belief that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women...
...basis of his past successes, the values of the least common denominator. Narrative linkage in any but the crudest form is dispensed with, and dialogue and characterizations are stripped to minimal levels. Any audience could chant the lines along with the archetypal figures on the screen, as if it were participating in a responsive reading. In any event, the point of the exercise is the traditional one: to bring a crowd to its feet shouting "Amen," or at the very least, "Praise...
...gypsies (always described, never shown) would strike a responsive chord in today's party-time teens. Somebody counted the Oscars and box-office grosses of Gandhi and determined that a British director in his 60s would be just the man to bring this musical Manhattan psychodrama to the screen. Somebody chose to film the dance sequences with a cinematic scythe that cuts everybody off at the knee. Somebody ought to be sacked...