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...fiesty couple is soon thrust into the world of international espionage--naturally through the old device of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The good-guy secret agents (led by the poker-faced Marcel Bozzuffi) promise to protect Renato and Albin from the bad-guy agents so long as they help them obtain some mysterious microfilm. Molinaro treats us to more than 90 minutes of car chases, dart guns, and hair-breadth close calls, using nearly every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills...
...looks and acts as if he could be Robert De Niro's older brother who went into accounting. One brief scene - in which Eva greets her new lover Juan with her arms and a leg sticking out seductively from behind an easy chair, like a Marcel Duchamp construction with moving parts - hints at the vibrant high camp to which Evita Perón might have aspired...
...sense, Gjon Mili is the Marcel Du-champ of photography. As a trained engineer he pioneered the use of electronic flash and multiple-exposure photographs, then, in 1938, started doing stories for LIFE magazine. There he revolutionized his art and influenced two generations of journalists. "Time could truly be made to stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon...
...bathed in a perverse glory, as if they were Lucifer's play things instead of God's creatures. Piaf was one of these, and Lapotaire never lets us forget it. The play unfolds through sketchy vignettes, some of which are disconcerting, such as the ones that have Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champion and Piaf's love of loves, being played by a black, and a Marlene Dietrich who is downright frumpy. A medal of merit should be struck for Zoë Wanamaker; as the prostitute pal of Piaf's who later achieves smug respectability...
...notion of book burning is unthinkable to many and appalling to others, if only because it brings to mind the rise of Adolf Hitler's Germany - an event marked by widespread bon fires fed by the works of scores of writers including Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells and Jack London...