Word: crone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...herself a versatility that all too few American actresses ever achieve. She was all over off-Broadway for several seasons, playing maids and grandmothers ("I'm a great grandmother," she says ambivalently). Since she was a reedy 5 ft. 8 in. tall, she had to start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy's, Leon & Eddie's, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant...
...sees in a pretty nurse (Claudia Cardinale) the symbol of purity and later recalls his childhood in a Catholic school, where he was seduced by a middle-aged crone. Mastroianni in Oedipal embrace with his mother is followed by Mastroianni in a harem being lovingly bathed in a vat by all the women in his life. Finally, Mastroianni has a vision that the film he wants to do is about the people he knows, not his fantasies. He dances in a happy ring with his actors and actresses...
...featherbrained Parisian canary (Corinne Marchand) who has just begun to peck the plum of show-business success. As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards for her, and the fortuneteller cannot quite conceal the fatal fact...
Instead of the usual gaunt crone with nothing left in her face except character, this Lady Macbeth is young. She has sex, a hard jaw and a soft body with a surging bosom that she proffers without a downward glance. Her lust-at the moment, for power-is for once understandable to the masses and not just to the senior staff members at Menninger...
...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...