Word: franco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Director Franco Zeffirelli have mounted the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier's Henry...
...gossip columnists right along. But last week, a couple did come out. For one thing, the eight-year-old boy whom she has constantly identified as her little brother, is her son by an unnamed father. For another, Claudia was secretly married in the U.S. last year to Producer Franco Cristaldi, 42, her longtime friend who has been seeking a church annulment of his first marriage in divorceless Italy...
...Adolescents is a three-part Franco-Italian film in which puberty proves as difficult for the moviemakers as it is for the girls involved in the film's pallid episodes. In Fiammetta, a Florentine figlia who lives with her widowed mother gazes dreamily at the family's carefully manicured estate, brooding about the disorder within herself. "The warmth in me is so soft that it hurts," she mutters, in a plotless sequence as muzzy as her mood. Marie-France and Veronica tells of two chic Parisiennes, not yet 17, sophisticated but full of curiosity about the homme-dingers...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Burton and Taylor...
...Award, the audience gave a standing ovation to the stooped old man whose image appeared on the screen. It was the first time that the Spanish government had permitted a movie to be shown of famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 90, who left his native land in bitter protest against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. There were indications, too, that the government would like to forgive and forget, would welcome him if he chose to return home. But Casals was ada mant. "There is no change in my attitude," said he from his exile home in San Juan, Puerto Rico...