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...Tenor Giuseppe Campora, the opera emerged at least in parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria in Act I familiar to Caruso fans ("Je crois entendre encore"), the thunderous and majestic choral hymn of vengeance in Act II, a rhapsodic and haunting baritone aria...
...hands, which are nearly always active, became powerfully expressive. He would push his fist forward with a twisting motion, suddenly pull a chunk of space toward himself with both hands; sometimes, when he was looking for a word, he would feel the air with his fingers in a "je ne sais quoi" gesture. Then he would explain, "I can't say it. I can just express it like this, with my fingers...
...back with gentle suggestions for cutting. From Paris came a second version, 870 pages long, and a third, running to 1,000. Huston quietly set them aside. One trouble was that the script suffered from Sartre's galloping Marxism and deep-seated anti-Freudianism. Said Sartre last week: "Je m'en fiche" (meaning, more or less. "I don't give a damn...
...je t'aime, Chérie, je t'adore...
...equally confused. He landed in the infirmary with eye trouble (said Paris-Presse), with nervous trouble (said Le Figaro), with knee trouble (said he). Brigitte herself wrote a letter to Figaro deploring the "bad taste" with which it handled her husband's problem, closing her letter with "Je vous méprise [I despise you]." She changed obstetricians after the first one complained that the press would interfere with his work. One camera-laden photographer was surprised on her roof...