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Country Calves. These stars, with few exceptions, are Europeans: Michael Caine, Jeanne Moreau, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Marcello Mastroianni, Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimee, David Hemmings, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Rita Tushingham, Melina Mercouri, Ingrid Thulin, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Samantha Eggar, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, David Warner, Alan Bates?and the Beatles. Hollywood's contribution to the constellation is insignificant: James Coburn, Walter Matthau, Lee Marvin are big boys at the box office now, but for some curious reason, Hollywood has yet to bring on a new and better class...
...Greek embassy's press officer in Washington introduced her as "the unofficial cultural ambassador-at-large for Greece," but Actress Melina Mercouri, 41, just hooted at that. Her remarks at embassy reception in her honor learned on one subject, however...
...What makes a man attractive?" a reporter asked. "If he likes you," replied Melina. "What makes a woman sexy?" If she enjoys to make love." With that explained Melina and her husband, Director Jules Dassin, whom she married last spring after they had lived together for ten years, hurried back to Manhattan to get on with rehearsals for Illya Darling. Opening on Broadway next March, the play is of course directed by Jules, with Melina trolloping through her old Never on Sunday role...
...Greek bearing gifts of a Mercourial nature can only squander them in this lurid, leaden adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, who also wrote Hiroshima, Mon Amour. While the screen moodily changes color, turning from light sepia to silvery grey and all but blushing with shame, Melina plays up the purple of her role as a sort of sick Samaritan. "How do you stond dee pain?" she wheezes, speaking of life itself. "Geev me a dhrink, Paul." But liquor is the least of her problems. Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive...
...with her best friend (Romy Schneider). One memorable night, as a storm rages outside, she sees Romy and Peter on a balcony in an alfresco embrace, heedless of wind, rain and lightning. Meanwhile, a murderer fleeing a crime of passion appears on an adjacent roof, and Melina decides to help him. Why? To that question there is a multiple-choice answer: 1) she is desperate for excitement, 2) she is romantic and immature, 3) she is a fanatic sexistentialist, or 4) 10:30 P.M. Summer hits the high mark of silliness. Pick...