Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started building a palace just off the Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...
Burned Bridges. In the Wyeth clan, almost everybody paints but the dogs, and Jamie started early. Says he: "I'd come home from a movie and draw the characters in it." He quit school after the sixth grade, and goes to a tutor mornings. "It's really butting in, the schoolwork, I mean," says he. "I'm not going to college, of course. Leaving school is like burning all your bridges. But painting is purely individual; it may be the only profession where you can do this." Such dedicated talk does not mean that the lean youth...
...studied for entrance into the corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a superelite brain trust that admits only a handful of men to its ranks each year and produces some of France's top administrative talent. Its veterans form an old-boy network that makes Britain's Oxbridge clan seem about as selective as the crowd at Auteuil...
Ocean's 11 was a slightly amusing remake of Rififi that instituted a custom: every Clan picture carries a number in its title. Sergeants 3 was a feeble remake of Gunga Din. 4 for Texas, apparently intended as a jestern, or horselaugh opera, isn't really funny. It isn't really funny to see two overage destroyers (Martin and Sinatra) wallowing in floods of booze. It isn't really funny to see two top-heavy tootsies (Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress) involved in a tasteless chest contest. And it isn't really funny to hear...
What's mainly wrong with Texas, though, is what's wrong with all Clan pictures: the attitude of the people on the screen. They constitute an ingroup, and they seem bored with the outside world. Sometimes, perish the thought, they even seem bored with each other. They scratch, they mumble, they hack around. They appear less concerned to entertain the public than to indulge their private fantasies. Maybe they ought to call their next picture...