Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...
Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...
The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...
Mario Borgia 11/23/1990: 778 words, approx. 3 pages
New York governors, like New York doormen, take themselves very seriously. Often they have their own foreign policies (Henry Kissinger was Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's foreign policy adviser) and usually are mentioned as likely presidential candidates. Such is the case with Mario Cuomo who, a...
(LOS BORGIA) (SPAIN-ITALY) A DeAPlaneta release (in Spain) of an Antena 3, Ensueno Films (Spain)/DAP (Italy) production, in association with RTVV. (International sales: DeAPlaneta, Madrid.) Produced by Tedy Villalba, Guido De Angelis. Directed by Antonio Hernandez. Screenplay, Piero Bodrato. Camera (color,...
1. Television has greatly narrowed the freedom of the intellectual to do his job and "disturb the public peace." 100 years ago, the French intellectual Julien Benda could stand up against the establishment for Alfred Dreyfus "because he was innocent... in the name of universal...