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...murderer is a butcher (Jean Yanne) recently returned to his home town of Tremolat in the province of Périgord after more than a decade in the army. He begins a casual flirtation with a schoolmistress (Stephane Audran), a woman of distinctly cosmopolitan charms who invites his friendship but spurns his affection. An unhappy love affair has left scars, and she is unwilling to risk another commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Psychology of Slaughter | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...discovered last year that sending Christmas cards was one thing I didn't have to do," says Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown. Others who have made the same discovery include Actress Jane Fonda (no peace on earth these days), Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (he is a Black Muslim), Actress Gloria Swanson (Christmas is too complicated as it is), Author Truman Capote ("I loathe all that rushing around and buying just because it's Christmas") and Singer James Taylor. "James probably doesn't even know when Christmas is," explains his secretary. "And if he did send out cards, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 13, 1971 | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...FUNNY SIDE (NBC). This mating of Laugh-In and sitcom is at least topical. Each week, the stock company of five couples (one young, one old, one cosmopolitan, one black, one hardhat) lights into a subject. Last week it was sex, and most of the gags were past their prime. The premiere the previous week took on health and, without drawing much blood, did at least pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: II | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...evidence of his 46th book, America's most famous-and cosmopolitan-man of letters has turned into a local character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...Sundays also makes a more than convincing case for Fitzgerald's comprehension of the film as a medium distinct from the novel or the play. By dramatizing the writer's development from screenplay to screenplay, Latham shows how Fitzgerald gradually began to disregard dialogue for visual images until, in Cosmopolitan , he wrote what seems to be an ideal script for the motion picture camera. We also see Fitzgerald's continued interest in sexual politics: in Madame Curie the novelist-turned-screenwriter played up the fact that his heroine had managed to fashion a successful marriage despite her devotion...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Books The Decline and Fall of Scott Fitzgerald | 4/29/1971 | See Source »

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