Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night, Thrown together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...
...which he has transmuted his literary material into images can be seen in the actress's recollection of her first meeting with her lover, a veterinarian who had just treated her lap dog. Across a deserted lecture hall they exchange smoldering glances; lightly, almost accidentally, his hand brushes hers. The lighting is muted, their mood is solemn. The effect is that of domestic comedy played in the style of grand opera-a pitiless and economical way of emphasizing the gap between the actress's dreams and her everyday life...
Eighteen-year-old Brigitte Bardot made her first splash there in a bikini, wiggling her way into the hearts of photographers; Simone Signoret's smoldering stare set the place afire back in 1949; Sophia Loren jumped from bulging starlet to blossoming actress when she made the scene in 1955. Ever since it began, the Cannes Film Festival has been a springboard for victory and vulgarity, for fine art and flapdoodle. This year the festival is 20 years old, but it is still deep in the throes of adolescence: serious and intense one moment, strained and silly the next...
Animal Butchery. Jean Genet, France's existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...
...over France, women are making advances, and the traditional French sugar daddy is in decline. Ladies of means in their 30s and 40s are turning into sugar mommies, raising cane by taking young boy friends. Latest to join in is Actress Jeanne Moreau, 38, who disappeared lately in the south of France with a 23-year-old lad named Theodore Roubanis, only to turn up in Paris last week with a more mature companion, Photographer Cyril Morange, 25. They are now blissfully ensconced in Jeanne's country house, and throughout France the middle-aged men are singing a variation...