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This season's Broadway musical transplant is "Nine," derived from the Tony Award-winner of 1982 and directed by Rob Marshall, who has a short but impressive track record for such endeavors. He made his feature debut in 2002 with the crackerjack movie version of Bob Fosse's "Chicago." Coincidentally, it took 27 years to reach the screen. If the new movie proves a success (it opens the day before Thanksgiving), Mr. Marshall may be justified in thinking of 27 as a lucky number.
"Nine" appeared almost 20 years after its movie-based inspiration, "Federico Fellini's 8 1/2," which became one of the most esteemed foreign-language imports of the decade after opening in the summer of 1963. The clamor over "La Dolce Vita" three years earlier had created a tide of curiosity and even adoration that swelled beyond the art-house public and press.See the full content of this document
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Fellini's Classic '8 1/2' Inspires Remakes
The oddly titled "8 1/2" did little to deflect this surge. Always receptive to the earlier Fellini films in the foreign-language category, Hollywood ramped up its enthusiasm with five Academy Award nominations. These included Fellini himself as director and co- screenwriter. He had t...
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