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Opinion
Nature 414, 473 (29 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35107198
The good, the bad and the ugly
Abstract
Reviews of books and other creations can be highly opinionated. Editors get used to the brickbats they receive in maintaining a balance between the rights of authors and reviewers, and between fact and interpretation.
Few actresses have attracted such condemnation as did Liza Minnelli in 1972. Her portrayal of Sally Bowles in Cabaret, the film based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, stimulated a withering response in The New Leader: "The film's irredeemable disaster is its Sally Bowles: changing her into an American was bad enough; into Liza Minnelli, catastrophe... Plain, ludicrously rather than pathetically plain is what Miss Minnelli is.
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