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...Fifty-Year Retrospective. The book ranges from his classic picture of Winston Churchill, which became a symbol of British resistance during World War II, to a recent photo of Italy's leading lady. "When an actress has the intelligence and professionalism as well as the beauty of Sophia Loren," says Karsh, "photographing her becomes a highly enjoyable collaboration...
...parolee ever looked better. Nearly a year after serving 17 days for tax evasion, Sophia Loren, 48, is back doing what she does best: pursuing the business of being a movie star. She is working now on a film biography of Maria Callas. At the Cannes Film Festival last week, fans and film hustlers were tripping over their Guccis to get a look at the postprison Loren. She was there to get an honorary trophy for representing "the long and great tradition of love that unites the festival at Cannes and the Italian cinema." A nice sentiment and, since...
...Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and Loren Jenkins of the Washington Post for reporting from Lebanon...
...Director Scola's purposes it is the perfect finish to a masterly film, at once superbly intelligent and strangely poignant. He employed the same ironic device in A Special Day (1977), in which Mussolini held a giant rally for Hitler in the background, while Mastroianni and Sophia Loren coped with the quotidian in the foreground. But La Nuit de Varennes is a much richer film. In Day the protagonists virtually ignored the great events moving around them. In Varennes they are relentlessly articulate in expressing views about them, ranging from right to left with a splendid detour for Casanova...
Under frescoed portraits of Diderot and Voltaire, luminaries ranging from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez to Novelists Norman Mailer and William Styron and Actress Sophia Loren debated such topics as state control of the arts and the unemployment crisis. In between they supped at the Foreign Ministry and lunched with Mitterrand. So dazzling was the cast that even the stars sometimes seemed overwhelmed. Said Film Director Francis Ford Coppola: "The people here are incredible. It's like a college-a very good college." The meeting, Italian Theater Director Giorgio Strehler concluded grandly in his summation, had provoked...