Life never has to be "lifesized" -- at least not when you're the size of, and can hold a high note as long as, the American Express Card representative and opera evangelist, Luciano Pavarotti. He, willing to play the buffoon for his art, makes his screen debut in the sort of simpering romantic comedy tendered to Lauritz Melchior in the Forties. The storyline, a Dream Fling with the World's Greatest Tenor, hops from rural Italy to Boston to San Francisco to New York, and encompasses a balloon ride, a food fight, and a number of numbing musical interludes. What handicaps Pavarotti as a romantic lead, more than the breadth of his back and the convexity of his thorax, certainly more than his Latin male supremism, is his coldly reptilian eye. And what spoils the potential campy fun, more than the stateliness and stuffiness of Franklin Schaffner's visual style, is the genuine pity evoked for the opera star's betrayed (but mercifully unseen) wife. With Kathryn Harrold and Eddie Albert. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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