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...Hollywood back lot, where only his own caprices, not nature's, could affect the process by which he achieved his most nearly perfect artistic vision. To shoot what seems to be a simple sequence, the meeting of his tramp character and Virginia Cherrill's blind flower girl in City Lights, he spent 83 days, 62 of which were devoted to thinking the scene over while his company idled, on salary, waiting for genius to assert itself. Sometimes, as with a comedy called The Professor, he would start a film, complete whole sequences as masterly as anything...
...reason for all of this impressive activity-the concept, as agency philosophers put it-is that Ô de Lancôme is "a Saturday-afternoon fragrance." The woman who wears it is fresh and casual, and, although breathtakingly lovely, not obviously paired with a lover. Such a wild flower, as LaMicela explains with a poet's shy pride, might ride her bicycle alone down a country road some misty afternoon. She might glide round a bend, only to find the road blocked by a herd of cows. The cowherd, struck by her beauty, might shoo his beasts away...
...takes of the cow playlet. As she waits at rest for the camera to roll, her resemblance to her mother, Actress Ingrid Bergman, is powerfully clear: the wide cheekbones, the astonishing directness, the serene impression of physical and moral strength. In motion, as she smiles and gives the flower to the cowherd, she flashes the life and openness that were, she says, the unforgettable traits of her father, Film Director Roberto Rossellini. These characteristics are not physical. It does not seem especially important to catalogue her face, to mention that the exotic, slighty aquiline curve of her nose is balanced...
...Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...
...least one institution has bypassed such programs and made its own appeal directly on TV. The Little Flower Children's Services, a Long Island center for abused and abandoned children, produced 30 commercials about eight hard-to-place minority children, all of whom have found adoptive homes...