Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell (host), Lisa Della Casa and Giorgio Tozzi of the Metropolitan Opera, Rosemary Clooney, twelve-year-old Violinist Penny Ambrose appear in a program of Christmas music...
...exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch off a lot more enthusiasm than the serious moderns...
...Roof, they live like animals. When Natale (Giorgio Listuzzi), a $1.50-a-day hod carrier, marries Luisa (Gabriella Pallotti), he takes her home to a two-room apartment owned by his brother-in-law and already occupied by four adults and three children. The newlyweds manage to fit their bed into a corner of the smaller room which they share with Natale's parents and his sister, who turns out to be a peeping tomboy. Some nights, just to get a little privacy, the honeymooners sneak out and make love in the side yard. In this human hutch-with...
What atrocities they have not committed on history, Writers Norman Corwin and Giorgio Prosperi have dealt out to the script. Neither evidently thought that an account of the Goya-Alba romance need include mention of her husband, or of Goya's wife and 20-odd children. The characters that do manage to squeeze into the script get lines so cliché-ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya...
...Ricordi is 1) exchanging its old, cramped print shop for a brand-new, concrete-and-glass plant on Milan's outskirts; 2) moving into the recording business; 3) continuing its forays into the pop field, having just launched an 18-year-old, blue-jeaned, guitar-whanging singer named Giorgio Gabor (no kin). Ricordi executives hope that Giorgio will turn out to be a prosciutto version of Presley...