Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCO CORELLI, 37, has risen so rapidly that in Italy he is nicknamed "the Sputnik Tenor." One reason is that he has a classically handsome head...
...even a 10% bad one"). In recent years, the Met's stage has known four other high-priced performers (up to $2,000 or so an evening) who rank just behind Tucker as the outstanding tenors of the day. They are Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Mario Del Monaco, Franco Corelli...
Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Bunuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius...
Surprisingly, the film was actually made in Spain. Bunuel is an anarchist, but he is also the most famous Spanish moviemaker, so Franco invited him to come home after 25 years in exile and to shoot a picture with government funds. Bunuel accepted the offer, shot Viridiana. But before Franco's censors could take a whack at it, he smuggled the film out of the country. Shown at the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prize...
...Furious, Franco banned the picture and fired his director-general of cinema for permitting such a movie to be made in Spain. It is not hard...