Word: ferrero
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Gassman is hilarious in all his disguises -wax teeth, putty neb, store hair, tape-on tummy-but most hilarious as the con man conned by a girl friend (Anna Maria Ferrero) who does the wedding bit with phony jewels-and a real priest...
...while there is a marvelous incoherence to it all. The slobs and the ridiculously gorgeous girls they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance...
...movie set in Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
...Britain and Britain's Crown derived most of all from the half-conscious recognition that Britain and the U.S. were among the few nations of the contemporary world which had governments solidly and deeply established in the assent of their people. Such governments, called "legitimate" by Guglielmo Ferrero, depend neither on force nor transitory popular favor. They must show a reasonable consistency between theory and practice, between the way the government is supposed to work and the way it actually works. They must be established long enough for their people to accept the mode of authority as natural...
...attraction: recitations from their own works by a four-man road company of Spanish poets. It was one of several "cultural" sideshows currently touring Latin America to illumine the beauties of Francisco Franco's Hispanidad. The mistress of ceremonies, a local poetess named Alicia Larralde de Ferrero, did not observe that more than a dozen uninvited guests had joined the audience...