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Jean resists the lecherous counsel of Mama and her sponging stepfather (played with gusto by Raf Vallone) but finds a friend in kindly Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), the actors' agent who in real life raked up most of the muck packed into Shulman's scurrilous bestseller. "You have the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Kettleson, too, did a fine job with the music, though I wish his voice had been stronger. Weber sung less brilliantly, but played with more convincing gusto. Randolph Lindel (Sveglioto) and Martin Wishnatsky (Giovinetto) performed their sneeze-yawn duet with suitable enthusiasm...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Barber of Seville | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Improved American bulges with gusto and determination. "If anything," Asbell admits in his forward...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: Technology and Education in an American Eden | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

ZORBA THE GREEK. Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hellangone. The man is portrayed by Anthony Quinn with noble savagery and goatish gusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Performed with unbridled Neapolitan gusto by Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tear-jerker is only a cousin by marriage to Pietro Germi's memorable comedy, Divorce-Italian Style. Its inspiration is the same rigid divorce laws that make marriage a last resort for Italian males and a Sisyphean challenge for the women who have to weep, cheat, wheedle and trick them into it. Under Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow), the two stars pour themselves into their work and set charm flowing like strong red wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pastryman's Tart | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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