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...After all, Lee's comics themselves used cinematic techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...
...those rare times when life and art not only converged but paused to entwine and intermingle. For the lovely and the loaded in Italy, La Dolce Vita of Federico Fellini's 1959 cinema masterpiece really did exist. It was served up in 1,001 nights of frenetic cafe hopping along Rome's Via Veneto, swathed in the smart fashions of Florence and Rome and recorded by swarms of flash-happy paparazzi...
...eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin was "a progenitor from whom everybody else descends," noted Italian Director Federico Fellini, adding his voice to a worldwide chorus of eulogies. "His was a figure that, even when it first appeared, had something mythical and eternal about...
...patriotic mission-to read some poems at a gala Italian program in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution-Yevtushenko also went to the theater with an Italian heiress, jogged in the Villa Borghese and told a reporter how deeply he had been affected by Federico Fellini's most recent movie, Casanova. "I am a woman chaser," said the poet, 44, "and Fellini made me understand how hateful it is to touch a woman you don't love. From the moment I saw that film, it was as though I had been sick. I couldn...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...