Word: bullfighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leslie Stevens' Bullfight proved to be a colorful splash of fiery vignettes, effectively backed by clever lighting, a ballet-drilled cast, exotic . costumes, and an ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring...
...Bullfight fans hold that the contest between man and bull is not sport but drama. Gringos, who often find themselves cheering the bull, insist that whatever it is, it is loaded in favor of the bullfighter. Last week, as the new season opened in Mexico City, the gringos had reason to believe they might have been right. President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had decided that the drama needed some editing; he decreed 98 changes in the bullfighting code, designed to give the bulls a better break and to take some of the histrionics out of the bullfighters...
...masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready; there was no outer wall around the stadium to bar gate-crashers...
...inaugural corrida had been advertised as the little republic's first high-style bullfight, and all 15,000 seats had been sold, some for as much as $12. So Impresario Toriello decided that the show must go on. The gate-crashers, with no fence to stop them, flocked into the plaza. Soon many choice ringside seats on the shady side had barefoot occupants. By fight time the plaza was packed and some 8,000 angry ticket-holders could not get in. Inside, the unticketed aficionados howled: "We want bulls...
...Madrid bullfight, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, getting her first taste of a real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own ostrich-feather, Parisian cartwheel hat (by Jacques Path) and skimmed it into the bull ring. "I know I threw away a $100 hat," she said, "but I certainly got more than one thousand dollars worth of thrills...