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...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: Moment of Truth | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...would-be impressario, As You Like It must inevitably seem of all Shakespeare's comedies the most attractive--witness the plethora of productions of the play this summer. Who would not be enticed by a play that both avoids those different boisterous scenes of, say, Love's Labours Lost, eschews that nasty embroilment of plot that so constantly threatens the serenity of Much Ado About Nothing, and yet retains all the good humor and easy-going appeal of both of these earlier works? High comedy, the highest, in fact, like the magnificent series of exchanges of devotion...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: As You Like It | 7/6/1961 | See Source »

White finishes his present engagement at Storyville this week, but according to impressario Wein, he will be back before the school year is over...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Josh White | 3/18/1952 | See Source »

...plot is simply incredible--something about a girl aerialist who, when spurned by her sawdust impressario for a sick hippo, falls head over heels in love with a daring young man who falls head over heels off his 60 foot trapeze and does a triple somersault into the hospital...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Greatest Show On Earth | 3/15/1952 | See Source »

...suave, knowing, and caustically witty Louis Jouvet dominates the screen in "A Lover's Return." He plays a ballet impressario who returns to Lyons, the scene of his supposed murder 20 years before. A visit to the family in whose home the "death" occured shows him that no one has changed in the interval but himself. Once a sentimentalist, he now sees things differently through the perspective of time...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

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