On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Harriet Kasow wrote: > WOW: > CARMEN MIRANDA-BANANAS IS MY BUSINESS. l995 Brazil/USA Helena Solberg > I never knew that she at one time was the highest paid woman in America. They say that about everyone. They said it about Dietrich before Miranda. In 1936, Dietrich earns $450,000 for *Knight Without Armor,* the highest salary in the world earned by a woman that year. > What a lovely film and expertly done. The recreated Carmen (not too > often as there is a tremendous amount of footage even Brazilian films that > she appeared in ) is played by a drag Queen. You mean Mickey Rooney? > I would be remiss if I didn't mention the docudrama PASOLINI; AN ITALIAN > CRIME. 1995 Italy Marco tullio Giordana > Using real footage with even an eulogy by a young Bernardo Bertolucci > the directors hint Marco Tullio Giordana is a single person. that Pasolini's death was not due to rough trade > sexually speaking but of his political writings shortly before his > death. One theory was that the Italian Communist Party was responsible for his death. What this film did was to reopen the murder case and I believe this is a very important accomplishment. No matter what you may have thought about him as a person > or a filmmaker (My husband disliked him for the one bad movie he made > l20 Days of Sodom) "bad movie???" Gloria Monti ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]