CINEMA: MADONNA AND EVA PERON: YOU MUST LOVE HER

WITH GLAMOUR AND STEEL WILL, MADONNA BRINGS EVA PERON ALIVE ON FILM

She stands on the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, the night humid with portent, the masses chanting her name, as she sings her calculated confession. "And as for fortune, and as for fame,/ I never invited them in,/ Though they seemed to the world they were all I desired."

Well, maybe they were what two famous women desired. Maria Eva Ibarguren Duarte de Peron kept her eye on the spotlight, her hand tightening around the cojones of power. And Madonna fought like hell for the right to incarnate, in one of the era's most vivid musical dramas, a...

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