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...finds a little wooden house. Inside are wide-eyed, redheaded Mascia (Ludmila Savelyeva) and her little daughter. Yes, si, da (one has his choice in this dubbed babel), Mascia is Antonio's Russian wife. An evening train pulls into the little town -and see! It is the bigamist. Giovanna glares at him. Mastroianni, touching bottom in a long and honorable career, gives his impression of a spaniel. Weeping, Giovanna boards the shuttle and heads back to Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mamma Mia! That's-a Spicy Meatball! | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Sword in the Stone, which was sold outright when he was desperately poor, Walt Disney paid him a munificent $2,000. Since 1948 he had lived in Alderney, a pebble-sized Channel Island, where he won the natives' hearts by announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Once & Future Merlyn | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Bigamist | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...life and personality of Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White. He lives on the pebble-sized English Channel isle of Alderney (pop. 1,600), famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness is legend. When he is writing-in green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parfit Gentil Knyght | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Hide Whips. Jerry, now resplendent in a redlined black suit trimmed with ocelot, had an explanation for that too: "I guess you could call the mix-up a technical hitch." He was not really a bigamist, he added, because his second marriage, not his third, was illegal. It was this way: "I was 14 when I first got married. My wife was too old for me; she was 17. Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Americans Abroad | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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