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Article: CLOSE encounters; Mike Davies goes to the De Vil with Glenn Close.(Arts)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2000
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Byline: Mike Davies
Although, taken as a whole, 102 Dalmatians is perhaps at the shriller end of the pantomime scale, there is one marvellous scene where Cruella De Vil, who has been conditioned to love dogs and hate fur, begins to revert to her old self.
Strands of her black and white hair start to spring up like frazzled spirals and her whole outfit, an elegant if exaggerated Chanel style suit, transforms itself from her Ella persona back into something more befitting Cruella. The shoulders spring up into points, black fingernails burst through the ...