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...Scott Fitzgerald, 44, and Nathanael West, 37, died within a day of each other in December 1940. Just a few hours after Edith Piaf died on October 11, 1963, her friend Jean Cocteau passed away as well; some said that France's supreme aesthete did it as the grandest possible gesture of solidarity...
...There seems to be something in Paris air or water that encourages compendium filmmaking - multiple characters and multiple stories. Paris, Je T'Aime may be the grandest such work currently on view, but it is not the only one. You may recall the recent Avenue Montaigne, in which a young waitress finds herself mixed up with an insecure actress, a great pianist withdrawing from performing and an art collector selling his collection. It has a chipper spirit, and, in the end, things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret...
...your family—all your family. But Trout Day is different. Trout Day requires nothing of us and can be legitimized only as a day to get off because it’s a nice day to go fishing. For this reason, Trout Day will forever be the grandest holiday of them all. It’s a day to put aside our attempts to gather the most dross or to write the Great Novel that will forever only be Sparknoted and tackle more meaningful pursuits, like fishing...
...Ponti was not merely the 40- or 49-year husband of Sophia Loren - though, really, gentlemen, wouldn't that be enough? He was one of Italy's grandest producers, perhaps second only to Dino De Laurentiis. The two forged a partnership in the early 50s, when De Laurentiis was producing films with his own bombshell wife, Silvana Mangano. Dino and Carlo's signature film was Un Americano a Roma, a modest comedy about a young Italian besotted with all things American. It expressed the hope of two paisan producers to make films that appealed both to the local market...
...goal: “This is by far the largest production we’ve staged...this is the largest budget production we’ve ever done. We’re hoping to achieve a larger scale than we previously have, and it should be one of the grandest productions in our history...