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...Within the Pope's own bailiwick, a veteran moral philosopher disobeyed Arrupe. A faculty member of the Jesuits' prestigious Gregorian Pontifical University since 1961, Father José Maria Diez-Alegria set off the squabble last December by publishing his autobiography, I Believe in Hope, without Jesuit clearance. The book is sympathetically leftist, and somewhat candid about priests' sexual frustrations, but what piqued Arrupe was Diez-Alegria's refusal to submit to Jesuit censorship before publication. Arrupe has since suspended the Spaniard from the society for two years. One important reason for his action: the case revived talk among a group...
Ever since she sang her last public performance in 1965, the opening of each new season has been preceded by a flurry of rumors that Maria Callas this year would finally return to opera. Last week in Turin, Italy, she did just that- but in an unaccustomed role. This time Callas appeared on the far side of the footlights as regista of an elaborate production of Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani...
Jonathon Scheffer and particularly Jerry Chasen as Maria's luckless fiance do very well by small parts; John Campbell Butman and Maureen Kerrigan as Riff and Anita are fine in large ones. Butman also manages to keep his New York accent comparatively intact and reasonably authentic throughout -- which is rare, although, nobody else quite equals Richard Pimes, who evidently conceives of Doc as a Polish Jew, or possibly anyone else, talk...
THERE ARE FOUR erotic scenes in The Last Tango in Paris which are so much more honest than the rest of the film that they should be excised, and exhibited by themselves as masterful short subjects. When Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider screw standing up, or shove each other up the ass with various appendages, or play with tenderness in a bathtub scene, director Bernardo Bertolucci's only intent is to evoke passion, harsh, hot or loving --and his intention is fulfilled...
...MARIA V. FLOSS...