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...veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative. And Los Angeles, on the Pacific shore, is a fast-growing, outdoor girl-a lady with jet contrails ruffling her hair, celluloid coiled around her feet, and a reputation for capriciousness that she does not wholly deserve...
...Vatican has greeted the film with an E rating-which would stand for Excommunication if celluloid had a soul, but in reality means Extra-Money-at-the-Box-Office. Boccaccio '70 proved the point by grossing more than $200,000 in its first ten days, milking the Italian population at an even more prodigious rate than La Dolce Vita...
...reputation but also did little to fulfill his promise. An unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly, "by the River Ganges where it flows into the Hollywood desert...
...Summer to Remember. A Soviet film whose reels contain honest celluloid-the fresh, warm, funny story of a little boy's life with father in Russia today-instead of the usual party line...
...Summer to Remember. A Soviet film whose reels contain honest celluloid-the fresh, warm, funny story of a little boy's life with father in Russia today-instead of the usual party line...