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ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy, Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
...Eastman has written his autobiography; it is long, racy, candid and vain. It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventurousness of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini. The book is also an important document, because Eastman, who observed the early Bolsheviks closely in Russia, was prematurely antiCommunist. In time a whole generation of American radicals would repeat his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party...
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy. Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
...cockney Casanova, Alfie leaves behind him a trail of broken hearts and gravid wombs. If worse comes to worst, Alfie is game to arrange an abortion, though not quite up to paying for it. In the lost lingo of yesteryear, Alfie is a bit of a cad, and it might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...
...last, decadent century of its independence, the old republic was all pageantry and intrigue. From Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city for the first time in 1785 wrote that the artist's "views of this town are most scrupulously...