Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rome is not known for a shortage of scantily clad prostitutes. Most of the girls are all remarkably handsome, but one slinky, dark-eyed ragazzaccia in garters and black hose was a real bam-bola (doll). It was Sophia Loren, just turned 40, who had strayed away from the camera crew for her new movie Gun Moll, in which she plays a former whore. Neorealism proved too much for one passing truck driver. He leaned out of his truck crying "Che bona!" and made Sophia an offer. Rebuffed, he sadly muttered: "Peccato! That one was stacked just like Sophia Loren...
Only drama stands out as an exception to the general trend. Certainly there have been films that deal with women-- Rachel, Rachel, Persona and Cries and Whispers come to mind--and on Broadway, Doll's House and The Women were recently revived. But good female roles remain scarce and plays that deal with friendships between women are nonexistent. In contrast, male-male relationships have been glorified in over a dozen movies and plays in just the last five years...
...early on, one must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance...
...biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...
...does not perform--maintain a heavy--handed pretentious quality. Rather than portraying a situation they strain after some large generalizing statement about the nature of man, beauty and hope. The other performers, Martin's students, cannot match their teacher's brillance. Cindy Benson is too earthbound as the dancing doll that comes to life in the "Dollmaker's Dream" and both she and Stephen Driscoll, who is quite good as the dollmaker, seem to fight against the familiarity of their material...