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...apparently innocent and light-hearted scene called Yo-Yo turns out to be quite sinister: the Lolita-like girl with the Yo-Yo flaunts her body seductively while an old man with chalk-white face and sunburned bare legs leers and chortles. In The Bath, an orange-colored woman sits by a potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting to be manacled; the stance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightmare Alley | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...scooters, putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta movie lot, finally got what he came for: an unflattering shot of Ava in an old bath towel, hair wet and stringy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paparazzi on the Prowl | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...fright-blue, standard-size bath towel. There she discovers her boss, a magazine magnate, lying dead in bed with a smile on his face. Darting out, is vainly pursued by the house harry (Jack Weston). who assumes that

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Err Is Humor? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...girl in the bath towel had some to do with the smile on the corpse. His suspicion, carried secretly to the publisher's heir (Dean Martin), causes consternation in the executive suite. "I can see the headlines now- FOUNDER OF MAGAZINE DIES IN LOVE NEST WITH NAKED NYMPH." The heir has no doubt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Err Is Humor? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...girl in the bath towel will soon try to blackmail the company. When the girl turns out to be a researcher on his magazine he offers her a $200-a-week raise and even a wedding ring, which she accepts, to the relief of Leading Man Martin, who obviously found small pleasure in his Night's Work because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Err Is Humor? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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