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The Advocate7C AMUSEMENTS Sunday, March 8, imp Newsmakers Lost painting has first showing the gallery show did make a Jr. Kevin Costner SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) Filming for Kevin Costn- er's latest movie ran into rough waters, with neighbors protesting plans to shoot a lake scene in which a skiff is blown up. The film, tentatively titled "Bodyguard," stars Costner in the title role, with Whitney Houston playing a singer stalked by a crazed fan. Some scenes are being shot on private property at secluded Fallen Leaf Lake, near South Lake Tahoe.

"Basically, we feel they're tak ing over the place without cooper ating with the landowners, Elizabeth Cross, a resident, said Thursday. "We live out there spe- ciricaiiy tor the sanctity of the place." Producer Jim Wilson said most residents "have been wonderful. I'm sorry one or two feel the need to protest." Dave Ziegler, executive director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, said the studio got all the necessary permits and has "touched every base thoroughly." Roseanne Arnold NEW YORK (AP) A thinner Roseanne Arnold gazes from the April cover of Ladies Home Jour-nal with a new hairdo and makeup, courtesy of the magazine. The 5-foot-2 sitcom actress says she's lost 70 pounds and plans to lose 40 more. She also says she's had breast reduction surgery and plans to have more children.

"I've always wanted more kids. As long as I have kids around, I'll be young," the mother of four said. In the article, makeup artist Ke-vyn Aucoin and hairstylist Harry King describe the "wondrous transformation" of the star of ABC's "Roseanne." "The result? Ravishing!" said Aucoin. Steven McAuliffe CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The husband of NASA "teacher-in-space" Christa McAuliffe has remarried.

Steven McAuliffe, president of the New Hampshire Bar Association, married Kathy Thomas, a reading teacher for the Concord School District. Both are 44, and each have two Abie painting by Amerian artist John Singer Sargent entitled "Span- L.J!l. A -1 ish uancer, lost ior more man a century, naa its ursi snowing ouu-day, March 1, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (AP) -XT yASHINGTON (API Mystery surrounds a John Singer Sargent painting of a Spanish dancer, lost for more than a How was the life-size painting lost? Did Sargent give it away? How did it finally surface? What relation does it have to another, even larger painting of the same dancer? Both works are part of an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, but few answers to the myriad questions can be found. Sargent, one of the world's best-known portrait artists, was born in 1856 to American parents in Florence, Italy.

He spent much of his early life in France and Britain, making his first trip to the United States at age 20 to establish his citizenship. Three years later, determined to make his name in the art world, Sargent visited Spain. There, he painted a life-size flamenco dancer, her head thrown back, arm outstretched, white skirt flaring. In the background were two figures apparently musicians. Later, he painted them out.

However, Sargent decided the painting wouldn't do for the Paris Salon, the major art event of 1882. Instead, he offered yet a larger canvas more than 11 feet long and nearly 8 feet high. There was the same unnamed dancer, her skirt fuller and whiter, one nostril flaring. This time there were six musicians and two dancers seated behind her, and a wall with two guitars, a tambourine, a red hand print and the scrawled word "ole." This is "El Jaleo," named for the type of song and a dance from Jerez, the Spanish town known for sherry. The word also means "uproar," the shouting, clapping, singing and other encouragement that go with such dancing.

"El Jaleo" the main piece in In order to 'Singin' in The image that everyone remembers from "Singin' in the Rain" has Gene Kelly hanging from a lamp post and swinging his umbrella in the wild joy of new love. The scene builds to a gloriously saturated ecstasy as Kelly stomps through the puddles of water in the gutters, making big wet splashes. The entire sequence, from the moment Kelly begins to dance until the moment the cop looks at him strangely, is probably the most joyous musical sequence ever filmed. It celebrates a man who has just fallen in love and has given himself over to heedless celebration. "Singin' in the Rain" has been voted one of the greatest films of all time in international critics' polls, and is routinely called the greatest of all the Hollywood musicals.

I don't think there's any doubt about that. There are other contenders "Top Hat," "Swing Time," "An American in Paris," "The BandWagon," "Oklahoma," "West Side Story" but "Singin' in the Rain" comes first because it is not only from Hollywood, it is about Hollywood. It is set at the moment in the late 1920s when the movies first started to talk, and many of its best gags involve technical details. mained for 1 00 years. "It looked as if it had been wrapped around a broomstick," said Alain Goldrach, who recently restored both it and "El Jaleo." The first painting was sold in 1988 to Dorothy and Wendell Cherry.

Cherry, an insurance ex ecutive in Louisville, died recently. "El Jaleo" will be on view at the National Gallery through Aug. 2. A reduced version will be on view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Sept. 10 throughNov.

22. 40 years of joy, being re-released LickinG County Players name ror tne 2b-year-old artist. Until his death in 1925, he was probably the most sought-after portrait painter in the Western world. El Jaleo has been loaned by Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time. It will be on display at the National Gallery until Aug.

2. New York art expert Warren Adelson and his assistant, Elizabeth Oustinoff, wrote in the National Gallery's exhibit catalog in the early 1880s the smaller work came into the hands of a Frenchman, identified only as "Monsieur They said a maid, who worked for "Monsieur before getting a job with Sargent, found the painting while cleaning his studio. The story goes that Sargent said she could have it because he had decided to entirely redo it. Later, she went back to work for "Monsieur and gave it to him. In 1897, "Monsieur asked Sargent to authenticate the painting, which he did.

Sargent said he must have "left it behind" on one of his many moves in Paris. Adelson and Oustinoff say it's unlikely that Sargent gave the painting to a maid. "The possibility that an amorous encounter prompted such an exuberant gesture might seem a likely explanation were it not for the fact that, throughout Sargent's well-documented personal life, there is scarcely a shred of evidence to connect him with a love story of any kind," they wrote. The one exception is what they call a brief infatuation with the daughter of a patron. Her portrait was shown as "Lady With a Rose" in the Salon of 1882.

Sargent never married. Adelson and Oustinoff said "Monsieur hung the Spanish dancer on a wall, where it re- celebrate the Rain' ROGER EBERT A restored print of the movie, made from the original three-strip Technicolor process with its brilliant reds and yellows, is going into national release to celebrate "Rain's" 40th anniversary. It is also available in video, including high-quality laserdiscs from MGM and Criterion. Looking at it again shows that the movie still has every ounce of its original charm, but then that didn't come as a surprise to me since I've seen it at least once a year since the first time I saw it at Chicago's late, lamented repertory house, the Clark Theatre. Unlike most of the movie musicals of recent years, "Singin" in the Rain" was not based on a Broadway stage production; it worked the other way around, with a London and Broadway musical in the 1980s being based on the movie.

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His wife, a teacher at Concord High School, was among seven Challenger crewmembers killed Jan. 28, 1986, when the shuttle exploded on liftoff. Ricky Scaggs NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Country singer Ricky Skaggs says his hit song "Same 01' Love" is tribute to its late composer. Chris Austin died in the March 16, 1991, plane crash that killed seven members of country-west-" ern singer Reba McEntire's "Chris was one of the mosA 'real' people I'd ever Skaggs said Thursday of the mu-sician who formerly played in; Skaggs' band.

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The movie was cobbled together fairly quickly in 1952 to capitalize on the success of "An American in Paris," which won the Academy Award as the best picture of 1951 and also starred Gene Kelly. The new movie had an original screenplay by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and new songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed. But some of the songs, including the famous title tune, were anything but new. The Criterion Collection laserdisc includes old film clips of a version of "Singin' in the Rain" from "Hollywood Review of 1929," "You Were Meant for Me" from "Broadway Melody of 1929," and "Beautiful Girl" from the Bing Crosby musical "Going Hollywood" (1933). Maybe because the movie was made quickly and with a certain freedom (and because it was not based on an expensive stage property), it has a wonderfully free and improvisational feeling.

We know that sequences like Donald O'Connor's neck-breaking "Make 'Em Laugh" number had to be painstakingly rehearsed, but it feels like it was stars run for ing on the protest vote from an electorate increasingly disaffected with Italy's stagnant political system. Other "heroines of love" include Moana Pozzi, whose face adorns the Party of Love's heart-shaped symbol; Virna Bonino, known as Barbarella; and Luisa Pistarino, also known as Eva Or-lowsky. Cicciolina, disputing charges she was ineffective, said she pre a BuildRemodel yttf house fn to fn i noose your ilumbini yottr pus yonr car yonr bene with iil er firewood OR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE! made up on the spot. So does "Moses Supposes," with O'Connor and Kelly dancing on tabletops. Debbie Reynolds was still a teen-ager when she starred in the movie, and there is a light in her eyes to mirror the delight of her character, who is discovered leaping out of a cake at a party and soon becomes the onscreen voice of Lena Lamont (Jean Hagen), a silent star whose voice is not suited to talkies, to say the least.

The movie's climax, as Reynolds flees from a theater while Kelly shouts out "Stop that girl!" and tells everyone who she is, and that he loves her, is one of those bravura romantic scenes that makes you tingle no matter how often you see it Although "Singin' in the Rain" has been on video in various versions for a decade and is often seen on TV, a big-screen viewing will reveal a richness of color that your tube may not suggest. The film was photographed in bold basic colors the yellow raincoats are an emblem and director Stanley Donen and his cast have an energy level that's also bold, basic and playful. But is this really the greatest Hollywood musical ever made? In a word, yes. Parliament sented 12 important pieces of leg-islation that included an environmental tax, sex education and an anti-vivisection measure. She's divorcing American artist JeffKoons.

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