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`MASTERPIECE THEATER' PRODUCTION OF `BOVARY' IS SINFULLY SENSUOUS.(What's Happening)(Review)
From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20000204
Author:Levesque, John
If Emma Bovary were around today, what do you suppose she'd be reading? Cosmopolitan? Victoria's Secret? Architectural Digest?
In Gustave Flaubert's randy tale of a narcissistic, unsatiable dreamer, the beautiful-but-bored Madame Bovary finds escape in the romantic novels and society journals of her day - the mid-19th century. An early proponent of the school of style that proclaims it is better to look good than feel good, Emma Bovary is the reflection of modern-day styloids for whom image is everything.
Without giving away too much of the story in the new ``Madame ...
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