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...Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup man and Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad. Luigi Galbani, 63, the barber at Rome's Excelsior Hotel, intervened. "II Duce," he declared, "was completely bald." That settled it. No one could doubt the word of a man who once wielded the razors at Mussolini's Ministry of the Interior. Said Galbani: "I shaved him several times - both his face and head...
...specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society of superhuman Masters who dwelt in Tibet. She was a gifted hyp notist of herself and others. When pressed, and if the lights were dim, she could pro duce spectral figures...
Such combat has not hindered Moravia's career. His entwined political and sexual themes were assured attention by strictures from il Duce and the Vatican. His latest novel, La Vita Interiore (The Internal Life), was banned last year under Italy's broad obscenity laws. The old national debate over censorship was rekindled; Moravia's gray head bloomed once again on magazine covers, and brawls erupted at public meetings where sections of the novel were read aloud...
...Knesses, in fact, are still recovering from a recent attempt to improve the trap. In order to save money they contracted with a plastics company to pro duce a small butterfly-shaped part used to wind up the spring-powered paddle. The quality of the material varied, and some winding keys broke. Standing by the company's absolute lifetime guarantee, the Knesses, with no outside legal prodding, not only replaced the traps that broke but sent new ones with the traditional metal part to all 60,000 people who had bought a potentially defective product. This experience reinforced...
...town with the Prince of Wales, whose spindly piano he inadvertently demolishes with one mighty chord. An actress in Greenwich Village cajoles him into playing by standing on her head, "exposing her bare secrets"; she turns out to be Tallulah Bankhead. In an audience with Mussolini, he feeds il Duce a line for a speech. He sits for Picasso, who sees him 24 different ways. Round the world he goes, bumping over the Alps in a cargo plane, hopping a banana boat in Panama, crossing Siberia on a dingy train. Wherever he stops, he is taken up by the wealthy...