Word: ekberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adam & Ekberg.. "In a certain sense, the Bible is already a screenplay," says De Laurentiis, who has hired British Playwright Christopher Fry to help him prove it. Unnecessary parts-"the Psalms, for example"-may be cut. But Noah and Jonah will voyage, the Red Sea will part, and Moses will, of course, once again receive the Ten Commandments. Since De Laurentiis feels that "we can only do this once and it had better be right,'' he is in constant touch with the Vatican's motion picture office. Also, he does not want The Bible...
With a tradesy eye on his congregation, Dino is going to make the film in English, dubbing it in Italian. Who will the actors be? "Everybody," says Dino. It is easy to imagine Van Johnson munching an apple offered him by Anita Ekberg, Frank Sinatra slinging stones at Jackie Gleason, Claudia Cardinale holding Laurence Olivier's head on a platter. No one has actually been cast yet, but two are all but certain to appear: Anthony Quinn, who has done some of his best work in De Laurentiis films (La Strada), and beautiful, languorous Silvana Mangano, who married Dino...
Something should also be said about the "cameo" performances of well known personalities. Aside from Anita Ekberg and Lex Barker, most of these people have only a certain local notoriety in Rome. Even the impersonator of Marianne Moore adds very little interest for the American viewer. Although, judging from Ekberg and Barker, they play themselves quite well, these guest celebrities take up a great deal of screen time and only contribute a further thread of decadence to a film already tangled with them...
...First the reporter casually leaves the girl (Yvonne Furneau) who really loves him and goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks the tree-by obvious inference, the apocalyptic Tree of Life, whose "leaves were for the healing of the nations"-and tears...
...safe, not even royalty (see cut). In February on the Veneto, when U.S. Actor Ernest Borgnine and his estranged wife, Katy Jurado, wrangled in the street, cameras popped. They caught Actor Cornel Wilde struggling with a local heckler, froze Anita Ekberg's bosom as it heaved in a wild dance at a private Roman orgy. When Katharine Hepburn passed through town recently, the paparazzi mounted Vespa scooters, putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta...