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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stars at work. Once Actress Bancroft had persuaded Patty not to hold back ("Naw! You come on and hit me!"), the scrap quickly developed into impromptu reality, a little different every night. The big fight has run as briefly as 8 minutes 10 seconds; at its best, one night in Philadelphia, it lasted longer than 12 minutes. "It was," says Penn, "one of the greatest things I have seen in the theater. Everyone, including myself, was too moved to do anything rational, let alone punch a stop watch. The audience came out of its seats yelling...
...picture itself is just a wide-screen ("Totalscope") travelogue filmed two years ago in Red China by Italy's globetrotting Count Leonardo Bonzi (Green Magic, Lost Continent). At times the DeLuxe color photography by Pierludovico Pavoni and Alesandro d'Eva is magnificent. (Best scene: a mistily magical sequence in which the fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only...
...couple in Rome, run over and killed while making love on the railroad tracks. Rome's press, while giving the Pope's admonitions good play, implied that he was merely suggesting self-control. "Self-regulation," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is without doubt the best medicine," went on to absolve itself from the Pope's accusations. Most other leading papers followed suit...
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
First With the Best. The Bakalars have built their electronics fortunes in only seven years. In 1952, Leo had a highly successful plastics business and good bank credit. David had a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in physical metallurgy and some practical semiconductor experience from a job at Bell