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...cordial has the West's reception been to the New Wave Czech films that the comrades have agreed to send along at least one of the ingredients, a blonde, blue-eyed Olinka Berova, 21. La Berova, a former dancer who has made eleven films at home, was snapped up by British Director Cliff Owen for a lead in a movie called The Vengeance of She, will be the first actress from Eastern Europe to toil in a capitalist movie. She seems to know the fundamentals. After expressing her affection for London by embracing the miniskirt, she flew...
...Eyes. Without question, one of the most popular features of Expo is Czechoslovakia's Kino-Automat, which is as much an audience-participation show as is a happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
...lyrics could have been written by the Czech Tourist Agency, but the melody is better known in grass-roots U.S.A. as On Top of Old Srnokey...
Thus such a subversive ditty as Sandy Shaw's Puppet on a String has been recast in Hungary as Paprika Puppet; the Spotniks' Walking Back to Happiness has become an ode to the joys of a country cottage, one of the most coveted status symbols among crowded Czech city dwellers. "The main problem with American lyrics is that they are too gushy for our listeners," says one member of the Text Writers' Circle, which supervises all song translations in Czechoslovakia. "Under our system we are conditioned to be less sentimental...
Original Cherry Blossoms. If the socialist versions of Western lyrics sound a little choppy, it is because some Slavic languages "lack words of one syllable, which help rhythm, and are short on vowels," explains Czech Translator Jirima Fikejzova. "In any case," she adds, "we try to be more original and avoid the banal, moon-June endings of American songs...