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...Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano was back stage at Philadelphia's Lyric Opera last week, glancing through the program. His eye caught just the kind of thing he was looking for - "Acclaimed The World's Greatest Tenor" - but to his in finite horror, there, smiling out above the blurb, was Archrival Franco Corelli. Di Stefano reacted with the cool dignity for which he is famous throughout op era. "I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel's-hair coat and heading for the door...
...father for the tenth time last year, Charlie Chaplin, 74, was all smiles until he read a promotional pamphlet for a projected rejuvenation clinic in Nice, France. The blurb intimated that he owed his latter-day powers to the injection of live cells from embryo lambs and calves. Bull, said Charlie. He kept youthful by himself, and that embryo claptrap was a denigrating lie. French courts agreed, upheld Charlie's suit to force withdrawal of the pamphlets...
...unclear whether "The Swindler" refers to one of the three major characters of his 1955 film, or to Director Federico Fellini himself. If one went to "The Swindler" in the proper mind-obliterating mood, one might be able to see it as described in the little blurb handed out by the Brattle: "Here, Fellini makes no concessions; with an utterly serious tone, he throws in our face all the desolate solitude, the crucl absurdity of the world: it is a cry from hell." Unfortunately for Fellini, the long-distance lines from hell have been rather busy lately, and his message...
Piero (Alain Delon), for example, a young stock broker, is hardly a "spontaneous" character, as the Brattle's blurb states. Whenever we see him, he is putting on a show--in the Stock Exchange, in his car, in his office. He might be watching himself in a mirror...
...uncritically generous-at birth, any little quarterly could count on a blurb and a bouquet of free poems as a present from him. He had no vanity, no avarice, no conceit, but he had strong and angry flashes of pride that described him perfectly in his poet's pose...