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Climbing Blocks. The scene was a western suburb of Algiers called Bab-el-Oued (pronounced Bablouette by its 50,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make...
...arranging meetings; and three months ago, Salan?with hair dyed black and a new mustache?gave a TV interview to a U.S. broadcasting team without police interference. Salan's whereabouts are shrouded in mystery: on the same day he has been reported in Belgium and at Algiers' Otomatic cafe, an S.A.O. hangout. When he first went underground, he was hidden in the fertile Mitidja plain south of Algiers, whose well-to-do pied-noir farmers...
...Barber of Seville that the opera was booed to a halt after the second act. Newspapers the length of Italy argued the Parmensi's right to sound off, and last week 80 Teatro Regio regulars announced a temporary truce. They gave a grand reconciliation party in the Cafe Verdi to soothe harried Conductor Basile. But it was still uncertain whether opera in Parma would survive its own fans. Said one of the unrepentant faithful: "We're reconciling with Basile now so that we can start picking on him again next year...
FENWAY: Michelangelo Antioni's longwinded but polished look at a decadent cafe-society party on a remote island, L'AVVENTURA has received awards at the Cannes and London film festivals, and it deserved them. It has been often compared both in content and style to La Dolce Vita, and more than a few consider it the better movie...
CAPRI: One of the most startling and influential pictures in recent years is La Dolce Vita, Frederico Fellini's rambling exposure of the degradation of Rome's cafe-society. Take a cushion with you if you like (it's three hours long), but by all means see it. Direction, acting, and camerawork are unparalleled and stunning...