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...look, the aspiring businessman who shows up for work in such deshabille may soon find that his future is as unstructured as his suit. Europeans, on the other hand, have never looked askance at a wrinkled, rumpled garment as worn by the likes of Charles de Gaulle or Sophia Loren. Clearly, though, U.S. tastes are changing. In time, Americans may even perceive the beauty in a wrinkled face...
...Italy with the means of supporting themselves in the manner to which they would like to become reaccustomed. Most succeed in spite of the law forbidding Italian residents to take more than $580 in lire out of the country. But authorities have started cracking down. Last month Actress Sophia Loren and her husband, Producer Carlo Ponti, were charged with having illegally transferred several million dollars abroad...
...industrial melodrama, a product not known to sell many tickets, the thing starts out simply enough: Loren Hardeman Sr., 86, founder of the Bethlehem Motor Co. back in the heroic days of car manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson...
...prosperous bourgeois. Housed in comfortable, well-staffed villas, he is provided with every comfort. The amenities include French newspapers and the latest Georges Simenon detective stories, as well as at least one movie a week (his favorite, which he has seen eight times: a Jean Gabin-Sophia Loren film called Le Verdict). To keep him from settling in anywhere, however, the Boumedienne regime changes his location from time to time, secretly and without warning. Ben Bella is allowed visitors, but they are screened beforehand and taken to his home blindfolded...
...accepts projects that will not mock the accomplishments of a heroic career. Maybe a legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...