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A slim, handsome man with heavily lidded blue eyes, Guy, at 54, is every inch a Rothschild. He personifies much of what the family name stands for: a flair for business, a love of sport, a taste for wine, art and conversation. Dressed in the British-style clothes that he...
But the affluence of a personal foundry came to Capralos late. During his student days in Paris at the Grande Chaumiere, he was so poor that he filched sketching pads. Accused of the theft by an English art student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen...
As a two-time loser dourly dedicated to his craft, Gabin comes out of prison and plunges right into a plot to lift 1,000,000,000 francs from the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. But suspense-wise the film fails to break even until Accomplice Delon takes up a...
Dr. Eisenhower's book is more representatively American than even he intended. "The United States," he remarks in passing, "is in a very real sense the heart of the interamerican system." Looking at the hemisphere through North American eyes, this may seem credible. But for the better part of the...
The Grande Premio went to 60-year-old Adolph Gottlieb, a founder of the New York School that helped make abstraction the international style. And the prize for the best foreign painter was won by Alan Davie, who at 43 is considered by many to be Britain's fastest...