Word: dulcinea
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Before she turns into Don Quixote's virginal Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, Aldonza, the scullery maid, gets a rather rough going-over from a rabble of lustful admirers. So much the worse for Sophia Loren that Director Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, currently making the movie in Rome, is a perfectionist. After umpteen retakes of the strenuous scene, Sophia was pleading sotto voce with the extras: "Take it easy, boys. I'm black and blue all over...
...weapon of war," his M-l carbine, and three counts of assaulting and kidnaping the plane crew and an Italian police official. Last November, a criminal court in Rome managed to limit his penalty to 71 years after the defense eloquently described him as a "Don Quixote without Dulcinea, without Sancho Panza, who instead of mounting his Rocinante flew across the skies...
...result was a streamlined reproduction of the Leningrad-Kirov Don Quixote that Nureyev had learned as a young dancer. The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay...
Uncultured Peasant. Defense Attorney Giuseppe Sotgiu seemed to agree with the prosecutor's every word. "I am sure that Italian judges will understand and forgive an act born from a civilization of aircraft and war violence, a civilization which overwhelmed this uncultured peasant, this Don Quixote without Dulcinea, without Sancho Panza, who instead of mounting his Rocinante flew across the skies...
Pickett has his impossible dream, but this year his juggling could find him his Dulcinea...