The Great Caruso

The Great CarusoBravo, Enrico! Bravo, Mario! Renowned tenor Mario Lanza portrays his long time singing idol Enrico Caruso in the crowd pleasing musical that was 1951's #4 box office hit. Suggested by Dorothy Caruso's biography of her husband, The Great Caruso rings out with aural pleasures (27 musical selections) and shines with the grandeur of a life lovingly refracted through the Hollywood biopic lens. The music (by Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi and more) emphasizes

Academy Award winner Robert Duvall stars as a maverick military officer whose tyranny threatens to tear his family apart in the gripping drama The Great Santini

TV and film

weary of his irresponsible ways

and replete with human sympathy the two actors take the film into waters later thoroughly navigated by the likes of Renoir and Ozu

a Harvard-schooled Bostonian ensconced in a cushy desk job

The ship is iron

A feature-length pilot for a proposed TV series

familial leeches and most of all

Buckle up and enjoy the ride

Cecilia serendipitously meets womanizing movie star Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer)

Mary Kate (Joan Evans)

if the irresponsible Mike ever realizes that what this lost angel needs is a great new dad