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...CLIMAX. Ugo Tognazzi gives an exquisitely humane performance as a three-family man (one wife, two mistresses, six children) in a bittersweet comedy produced, written and directed by Italy's Pietro Germi...
Climax has stopped being funny now, as Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...
N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
Died. Margaret Kennedy, 71, British author, who in 1924 scored an international bestseller with The Constant Nymph, a bittersweet portrait of an erratic musician's seven free-spirited children, produced 17 other novels (1964's Not in the Calendar), most of them skillfully told tales with intricate plots; in Adderbury, Oxfordshire...
Shortly before leaving the Vienna Opera in 1907, Mahler learned that he had a serious heart ailment. He said his farewell to earthly joys and confronted death in the hauntingly bittersweet song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the coolly spiritual Ninth Symphony. Weakened by overwork, he caught a streptococcus infection while struggling feverishly with his Tenth Symphony ("The devil is dancing with me!" he scrawled in the margin), and died at 50 in 1911. His life was incomplete but, as he once expressed it, "I am a musician; that says everything...