Word: cellini
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...special domain as a comedienne, and her partner in crime on this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms of wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini has an almost revolutionary message: some people are not spoiled by their environment or their families-they are just plain...
...magically multicolored as a Persian carpet. To show the effervescent character of baroque art, a huge, gilded 17th century harpsichord is placed against a wall of Tiepolo's levitating flights of linear fancy. And in the center of a room coated with Italian 16th century masters rests Benvenuto Cellini's great cup, a Renaissance fantasia 7½ in. high, in which a turtle and a dragon balance a seashell in gold, enamel and pearls...
...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...
...Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...