But at the same time the book is just so very much itself that I can’t help but feel a certain admiration for it. It may not be what I want in a fantasy novel, but by God it’s what Morris wanted and he did it to the very utmost.
I do admire that! I still may not read it!
a review of Carmen Jones, a 1950s black cast musical based loosely on the opera Carmen.
I am familiar with Carmen Jones only in its 1954 film incarnation against which I bear a deathless grudge, because even before I could evaluate the handling of the story, who the hell casts Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge in a musical and then dubs them?
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I do admire that! I still may not read it!
a review of Carmen Jones, a 1950s black cast musical based loosely on the opera Carmen.
I am familiar with Carmen Jones only in its 1954 film incarnation against which I bear a deathless grudge, because even before I could evaluate the handling of the story, who the hell casts Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge in a musical and then dubs them?