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...pairing is as before. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) is still the wise, patient husband; Albin (Michel Serrault), the transvestite wife, remains prone to hysterics and to giddy romanticism. The two are involved in a rather strained spy plot after Albin comes into possession of a microfilm wanted by both the Súreté and what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women...
This climax neatly parodies one of the sillier conventions of romantic thrillers, but the picture is rarely that delicately tuned. Ugo Tognazzi remains a marvel of sympathetic understatement as the, er, straight man, but Michel Serrault's performance has a forced, even panicky quality here, perhaps because his role is not as well written as it was the first time, lacking as it does both sympathy and well-made gags. Director Molinaro handles most of the action scenes perfunctorily, never realizing their full value either as suspense or as comedy. Since no one has bothered to think up anything...
Chirac's candidacy, together with that of former Premier and De Gaulle Aide Michel Debré, 69, further complicates the race. Gaullists, who consider Giscard a usurper, will no doubt favor Chirac or Debré in the first round. Giscard's re-election may depend on how many return to the fold in a runoff against Mitterrand...
...Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under the single professional name Nadar, and his son Paul. Their subject is Michel-Eugène Chevreul, an elderly scientist and expert on the theory of color mixing. Visible in some frames: a tubular machine that recorded Chevreul's words to be set alongside his facial expressions in the Paris weekly Journal Illustré. In one picture he is saying: "I must...
...House staffers devised a surprise of their own for the President's 70th birthday. They sprang it in the Oval Office, just as Reagan was about to receive a bipartisan group of Congressmen. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Senator Paul Laxalt and Representatives Jim Wright and Robert Michel suddenly found themselves making their entrance with Nancy Reagan and a giant cake standing 8 ft. tall on its platform. "I'd like to light it," said Nancy, "but I can't reach the candle." Without stopping to think, Texan Wright leaned over and gave her a lift...