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Kissinger himself did not see much bomb damage. He and his team occupied a high-ceilinged yellow stucco house, once the residence of the French administrator of Tonkin, with a formal garden graced by peach and plum blossoms in bloom. Walking along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake, Kissinger was the object of stares from passersby, but none approached him. He was impressed by the city's quiet, where the street traffic consists mainly of bicycles...
...awkward nostalgia Limelight elicits stems partly from its semi-autobiographical stance. Chaplin plays Calvero, an old vaudeville comedian who drinks too much and can't find work. He rescues a suicidal young ballerina (Claire Bloom) and infuses her with his life energy and accumulated wisdom. She becomes a great star; she falls in love with him; he dies...
...Times out of mime and motion in the 30's, when everyone else was making talking pictures, and he later made two films where dialogue was carefully integrated with movement. But in Limelight his fluid style dies. The comedian's act is stationary; even at a climax, when Claire Bloom finds she can walk again, she takes a single step and describes her exuberance but she doesn't dance, doesn't even walk; when the two fall in love, she speaks, he speaks, they say nothing, and neither of them moves. There is infinitely more emotion in the Gold Rush...
...press conference with her fiance Desi Arnaz Jr. following the award presentation, Minnelli advised women who aspire to Woman of the Year status not to think about themselves; see colors, have a good time and care because "that always makes what's inside bloom...
Frederic (Bernard Verley) lives the routinized life of a commuting Paris lawyer. On the verge of middle age, he has settled in the suburbs with beautiful wife Helene (Francoise Verley) and child, and she guards his middle class stability unquestioningly. Although his paunch is beginning to bloom and puffiness wells the contours of his face, he considers himself a paragon of maleness. He is a girlwatching connoisseur, and escapes the anxiety prone hours of late afternoon by shopping in the city, where he visually exercises his bored and spoiled sexual appetite...