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Jack Jefferson enrages the country not only because he has wrested the title from an Irish-American but because he has acquired a Caucasian mistress, Eleanor (Jane Alexander). A great copper statue of a man, Jefferson cannot be legitimately toppled. But he can be melted down legally. Arrested on a rigged Mann Act violation, the champ jumps bail and flees to Europe. There the bruiser becomes the bruised. The retreat starts in alcoholism and ends in a Budapest café where with aching symbolism he "lawzy me's" his way through the role of Uncle Tom on a tiny...
...story concentrates on the mental disintegration of an Italian pop artist (Franco Nero). Tortured by paranoiac and frequently brutal sexual fantasies, the artist persuades his patron and mistress (Vanessa Redgrave) to rent him a long-deserted villa outside Milan-"a quiet place in the country." The villa turns out to have been the trysting place of a nymphomaniacal adolescent countess who was killed during the second World War. While his mistress stays m town, the artist settles down in the villa, only to become haunted, then possessed by the phantom presence of the dead girl...
Nightmare blurs reality at first, then smothers it. Episodes of the girl's sexual history fit snugly into the artist's own fantasies. Soon his only desire is to be alone with the specter. Whenever his mistress comes to visit, the house seems to turn against her: floors cave in under her feet, gas heaters explode in her face. Watching her survive this succession of narrow escapes, the artist resolves to finish her off himself as a kind of blood offering to the spirit...
...form. The title hero-like the obviously prototyping author ego behind him-is Belfast-born, Hollywood-drawn and Malibu-quartered. The fictional Fergus is a novelist in the throes of divorce and debilitating screen work. He is also hopelessly involved with a young, free-spirited mistress. So far, so familiar as a portrait of the built-in plights that afflict writer-in-California residence...
...extension of all his other social relationships, not, as many Westerners see it, a world apart. A worker's job is often more important to him than his home life, a fact that most Japanese wives accept with equanimity. In Japan, the company is a hard mistress to beat...