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...Eisenstaedt could have seen Marlene Dietrich in 1928, two years before The Blue Angel, and won from her a smile that says it all? Or could have photographed Sophia Loren in Marriage-Italian Style, a picture that revealed her as the love goddess of her age, while remembering her as "the nicest and hardest-working movie actress I have ever met"? That the same eye should also have seen the brooding evil in Goebbels in 1933 and wisdom deep in the eyes of Edward Teller in 1963 testifies to Eisenstaedt's undimmed perception, which makes...
FALLA: LOVE, THE MAGICIAN AND THE THREE-CORNERED HAT (Deutsche Grammophon). Loren Maazel, conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, streaks through two famous ballet suites with much of Falla's own theatrical genius, and Grace Bumbry, as a girl chased by the ghost of her dead gypsy lover, gives an exuberant, shoes-off performance in her brief role. All hands seem to have caught the spell of old Andalusia...
Identify the country or countries which recently: a) sentenced a poet to two weeks in prison for penning "a mockery of the Holy Family and Jesus Christ"; b) promoted Pepsi-Cola in full-page newspaper ads; c) gave away choice seashore plots of land to Sophia Loren, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra...
...sites on the Adriatic to a handful of movie stars also raised some orthodox eyebrows. "Is it possible that deputies in a commune donate land free to a certain diva when peasants must pay for their water and electricity?" asked Ekonomska Politika. "When the town of Budva gives Sophia Loren a piece of land," it replied, "Loren will shed on Budva part of her world fame, which has an astronomical price. Hotels around her villa will overnight rocket in value, as will the whole town...
Lady L. Careering madly through the countryside, a battered Daimler eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...