Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most famous unmarrieds in recent years, of course, were Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren; Ponti eventually became a French citizen in order to marry her. Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni and Actress Monica Vitti lived in separate apartments with a connecting interior staircase, until Antonioni won an annulment and the two were married. In less sophisticated circles, extramarital relationships are also common and accepted. "You want to know which of your friends are living together," says a Milan doctor, "not for gossip or to spread scandal, but to know how to address invitations to your parties...
...invited to step up and unburden his spirit on the subject of "A Wesley an Education." This was a student-requested innovation. The only student to speak at any length was a dark, angular boy in a plaid lumberjack shirt. He identified himself as a political radical and film maker, quoting a Jean-Luc Godard epigram: "We are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola...
Meyer's stern philosophy, applied to 16 nudie films, has helped make him one of the most successful independent film makers in Hollywood. His first movie, The Immoral Mr. Teas, was made for $24,000, but when it brought in over $1,000,000 Meyer, a former industrial film cameraman, found himself on top of the bottom of the business...
Though Meyer's films have grossed $11 million in ten years, the profits, he claims, have been incidental. "My turn-on," he says, "is making movies that entertain me." Unfortunately, like those other pioneers, Kinsey and Masters, Meyer may live to see himself trampled in the sexual revolution. "I am worried about Am Curious (Yellow)," admits Meyer (46-38-42). "That film has put me at a crossroad. I have never shown genitalia in any of my films. Once you have to show that to get people into the theater, how many people are going to do it with...
...literature and electronics, the Japanese urge to modernize has had much the same effect. Japanese novelists often study Western models as faithfully and earnestly as their engineering brothers ingest technical manuals. The result is that too often the final product resembles nothing so much as a dubbed-in Oriental film. Occasionally, though, a novelist, borne along on his own exquisite and honorable psychological insight, transforms a Western genre into a vehicle for approaching a universal truth...