{"id":47,"date":"2009-09-03T02:32:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2016-09-23T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:59:36","slug":"chicago-sun-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/reviews-2\/a-season-of-giants\/chicago-sun-times\/","title":{"rendered":"CHICAGO SUN TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright 1991<br \/>\nFriday, March 15, 1991<\/p>\n<p><b>WEEKEND PLUS<br \/>\nCABLE TELEVISION<\/b><b><i>Tedious TNT epic belittles &#8216;Giants&#8217; of art<br \/>\nGinny Holbert<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>A Season Giants<br \/>\n(STAR)<br \/>\nMichelangelo Mark Frankel<br \/>\nLeonardo da Vinci John Glover<br \/>\nJulius II F. Murray Abraham<br \/>\nRaphael Andrea Prodan<br \/>\nSavonarola Steven Berkoff<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Stone came to life under Michelangelo&#8217;s chisel. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s not around to knock any animation into &#8220;A Season of Giants,&#8221; a two-part mini-series about the artist.<\/p>\n<p>The TNT production, made with Radiotelevisione Italiana, is a big-budget bore. It was shot in Italy and features a large international cast, but somehow it manages to turn the unparalleled artistic achievement of the Italian Renaissance into an unparalleled yawn.<\/p>\n<p>As Michelangelo, British actor Mark Frankel flits from Florence to Bologna to Rome and back again, looking intense and quarrelling with his patrons and competitors. But the conflicts never amount to much and Frankel&#8217;s performance is coldly unaffecting. Neither he nor the film ever gets inside the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}