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Hardly since General Douglas MacArthur's "I shall return" has so momentous a comeback loomed. According to Italian Cinema Director Luchino Visconti, fabled Film Star Greta Garbo, 65, who has been dodging cameras for 30 years, has actually asked to play in his forthcoming movie version of Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. The role that caught her fancy: Maria Sophia, the sixtyish Queen of Naples, who will have only one scene. Nothing has been signed as yet, but Visconti sounded as if Garbo's reappearance was already a fait accompli. Said...
...practical joke," fumed Dramatist Marcel Pagnol, 75. "It is not serious," snapped Novelist Jules Remains, 85. "Déplacé, indecent and outrageous," sputtered Novelist Maurice Druon, 52. What shocked the "immortals" was the fact that a Frenchwoman had been accepted as a candidate for election to the all-male Academic Francaise for the first time since Cardinal Richelieu founded the pantheon of intellectuals 335 years...
...Flip and his producer Bob Henry were determined to make this show different. They have succeeded admirably by concentrating on Flip. There are no big production numbers, no lines of chorus girls, no star-spangled introductions, just Flip doing comedy sketches and bantering with such guests as Marcel Marceau or Lily Tomlin. While he occasionally joins them in a number, Flip is careful not to hog the camera. He and Henry have also made a point of spacing Flip's pet routines-the sassy Geraldine and the high-gaited gospel preacher-to ensure that they don't wear...
...Marcel Ermacora, 51, knows how to nurse a grudge. The son of a poverty-stricken Italian family, Ermacora served in Algeria with the French Foreign Legion and later developed a fierce resentment against his adopted country for abandoning its former colony. So when he went to work as an assistant accountant for the prosperous firm of Carel Fouché Languepin, manufacturers of railroad equipment, he decided to take his revenge. As he told a judge in Paris: "My company was a representative of French capitalism and as such responsible for abandoning Algeria...
...mild-mannered accountant found it childishly easy. One of the company's suppliers was Marcel et Cie. When Marcel Ermacora typed out their checks, he banged hard on the "Marcel," holding back on the "et Cie." When the checks were returned with a company official's signature for payment, he merely typed his last name in and ran laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene...