Word: lombardo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another." To a moviemaker, the subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget of $5,000,000-he spared no effort in Sodom and Gomorrah, and in consequence his super-colossus stands as a milestone in the history of cinema...
...case, are likely to sit through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back...
Ontario-born Guy Lombardo used to play the violin, but he stopped doing that 25 years ago. Nowadays, he just stands in front of the band, signing autographs, smiling, waving his arm as if to a relative at a distant table. Actually, he does not even need to direct. All in the band, including his brothers Carmen and Lebert, have long since worn their own grooves into the Lombardo repertory...
Celebrated Courage. Tall and glamorous, with a long nose and a massive and handsomely furrowed face, Guy Lombardo still resembles a sort of RCA Victor Mature. He is a dignified and straight-forward man, with no more bazazz in his manner than in his music...
...also took courage to keep on playing his own type of music imperturbably in the face of changing fads. But the college kids who loved him years ago are now captains of industry-and they like to go dancing wherever Guy Lombardo plays. Their own kids wouldn't go there with gas masks, but that doesn't bother quiet Guy Lombardo. "Nowadays we lose 'em in the teens oftentimes, sure," he says, "but we catch 'em again later...