Word: countess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hara people live by the venerable adage, "If I don't do it, someone else will." Thus James Hatter has few compunctions about sleeping with his best friend's wife, and Starlet Natica Jackson even fewer about destroying a neighbor's marriage. A bitchy British countess in Hollywood sums up: "After all, everyone's naughty when the door is closed, don't you agree...
...hopes of Venice, however. There were still the parties, which may have been the only hope to begin with. Best of all was the do at the Palazzo Volpi given by Countess Nathalie Volpi di Misurata, Count Volpi's mother. Not very many movie people got invited, of course, but the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur were there, and the Begum Aga Khan was there, and Gina Lollobrigida was there, and Princess von Furstenburg, and Sam Newhouse, and Mrs. Amintore Fanfani, and a number of Bourbon-Parmas, Rothschilds, Patiños, Dubonnets, D'Arenbergs, Romanoffs, Colonnas and Borgheses...
...resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
...Peppard's fellow pilots, Jeremy Kemp and Karl Michael Vogler convincingly uphold the glory of the German officer class, rattling off performances unalloyed with conventional tin soldiery and Prussian steel. Playing a hero-collecting countess who adds Peppard and Kemp to her trophy shelf, Ursula Andress is considerably handicapped by high-cut period costumes, though she manages to slither out of them from time to time...
Sophia Loren is delightfully visible everywhere these days. She is playing lowdown adventure in Arabesque, high comedy in Lady L., has just finished A Countess from Hong Kong for Charlie Chaplin, and the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan is showing a galleryful of still pictures of the lovely Loren face. "It has been a marvelous year for me," she chirped last week. "And I've gotten married. What more could...