Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome's Fiumicino Airport, Italian plainclothesmen arrest two Orientals on a flight from Bangkok, whose suitcases yield 44 lbs. of lumpy gray-brown No. 3 heroin, hidden in carvings of elephants, pagodas and lotus leaves...
Silly, dirty and about as broad as your grandpa's barn door, How Funny Can Sex Be? has turned out to be one of the few successful foreign films of the year. Full of coarse-ground jokes about some of the more unlikely vicissitudes of love, Italian-style, the film is turning a neat dollar apparently because of, not despite, its defects. The sex in this movie may not be very funny, but it is bawdy enough to be naughty without being graphic enough to offend. In other words, it is a safe sex comedy...
Stosh Serafin, a blind skater from Pennsylvania, and Italian Olympian Susan Driano, will also appear. Harvard's representatives will also participate: sophomores Mahlon Bradley and Meg Streeter...
...Garry, Amy Aquino, and the three clownish waiters provide a fine atmosphere as the surly character actors in this sleazy Italian cafe; Skip Mendler is a nicely crotchety old man. Three in this cast, however, seem bent on annoying the audience--Jonathan Prince with his woeful mugging, Caryl Yanow with her too-stiff innocence, and Lisa Popick with a laugh of practiced exaggeration that ceases to be funny the second (let alone the twenty-second) time it is done. George Hamlin leads this production, rescuing an inexperienced cast with rigourously detailed direction. One gets the impression that he has told...
Born to a volatile Italian couple in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, Stallone grew up in Monkey Hollow, Md., where his mother ran a beauty parlor. He attended twelve schools by the time he was 15, and was thrown out of most of them. "I was into J.D.," says Stallone. "If I saw a housefly on the hood of a car, I'd stamp him out with an iron pipe. A very nice...