Word: flamencos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pyro glosses over its terror with a sort of Hitchcock-and-bull story photographed in Spain in flamenco hues and laved in bucketfuls of blue butane gas. The film casts Barry Sullivan as a philanderer who becomes a firebug when cast-off Playmate Martha Hyer sends his house up in flame. His wife and daughter dead, Barry survives, a hideously deformed monster with a "carbonized" brain. Crazed, hunted, vowing fiery vengeance, he hides behind a mask that inexplicably looks just like his old self. To keep the movie's audience from straying out for a smoke, there are some...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...know what to say for the first five hours-I just listened. He spills out amazing ideas and insights so fast. Even though you may not fully understand what he said, you feel you ought to. By osmosis, you eventually catch on." During one interview. Fuller did his flamenco-type dance for Miriam. During another, in a small plane bouncing into St. Louis in a snowstorm, he sought to calm her by saying: "Relax; just give way to love...
Died. Carmen Amaya, 50, Spanish flamenco dancer, a volcanic Catalan gypsy whose machine-gun castanets, stomps, swirls and fiercely elegant cadenzas won her star billing on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s and '40s, and earned for her up to $14,000 a week, which she largely lavished upon Romany schools and charities, leading Spanish gypsies to call her "our good mother"; of chronic kidney disease; in Bagur, Spain...
Cunard has ripped out the Edwardian trappings of two of its ships, installed bowling lanes and nightclubs and rechristened the ships Carmania and Franconia. Along its Mediterranean stops, the American Export Lines provides variety in entertainment by picking up Spanish flamenco dancers in one port, carrying them to the next, and then taking aboard another set of locals. The Italian Line hires hostesses-often some one who can claim a titled name-to help passengers get acquainted...