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Edward and Ginger Levy, of Franklin Lakes, N.J., had planned to spend their 30th wedding anniversary on a $4,000 Mediterranean cruise this month, but switched to a $1,000 jaunt to Toronto instead and saved the rest of the money. Herbert and Judith Monheit, of Elkins Park, Pa., changed their May vacation destination from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia at the urging of family members. Says Herbert: "It sort of wore on us. I know the odds (of a terrorist attack) are infinitesimal, but why take the chance...
...Three Ginger Brown...
...minutes of celebrity to the unusual or notorious. On the face of it, Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) and Amelia (Giulietta Masina), would seem to fit right in. Back in the '40s they were a minor but prosperous dance team, imitating the high romantic style of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in provincial Italian nightclubs and variety houses. Pippo and Amelia are long retired, but their one-shot TV comeback will be a treat for old fans and an astonishment to the younger set, especially if they can get through their act without suffering heart attacks or some lesser public humiliation...
...fall in the middle of it), we see that, modest though their talents are, Pippo and Amelia had, and still have, a gift. It is the capacity to provide something universal and necessary, the romantic gesture. That grace may or may not be a vanishing one, but at least "Ginger & Fred" are called to their work by something higher than the need to make a sensation...
...These are lovely performances, observant, original and infinitely appealing. When we, and Fellini, are lucky, his taste for flash and trash does not overwhelm what he really has to say; instead, it makes a useful contrast to simpler truths, and makes us grateful for them, as we are in Ginger & Fred...