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Both the NYT and LAT go top-front with the same picture of Bill Clinton: At the Korean DMZ complete with howitzer backdrop, decked out in scrambled-eggs ball-cap and Army field jacket, he's doing a grip-and-grin with a bunch of soldiers.
In response, Midlands Mining promises that no harm will come to the abbey, which provided a moody backdrop to both Childe Harold and Don Juan .
The genre revived in 1995 with Clueless , which was based on Jane Austen's Emma . Cruel Intentions is the zillionth adaptation of the 18 th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses . She's All That is loosely based on Pretty Woman , which was loosely based on My Fair Lady , which was based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . Arriving at multiplexes in the next few months will be O , a version of Othello set against a backdrop of high-school sports, and 10 Things I Hate About You , an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew .
"[T]he best film of its type since Chinatown ," says Todd McCarthy in Variety . Critics praise the all-star cast (which includes Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger); the unpredictable plot twists; and the use of Los Angeles, made to evoke the city of classic film noir, as a backdrop.
Madeira’s rugged mountains form an attractive backdrop to the city.