Word: montand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be impossible on the American screen, particularly the notorious "rape" of Temple Drake by the impotent Popeye. Instead, the moviemakers have opted to masculate Popeye and remove the more unorthodox elements of the rape scene, leaving little to be double-filmed but an active bedroom encounter between Yves Montand and Lee Remick. "The European version I like best," says Montand with a half-bored Gallic shrug, "but I tell you something: both are acceptable and decent. The difference is so small. For America I kiss her lips, but for the Europeans I kiss her collarbone...
Somewhat Illegal. Occasional criticism of her politics (her husband, Singer Yves Montand, was an unabashed fellow traveler, and she too has displayed a few leftish twinges) troubles her not at all. "My mother," says she, "was the kind to tan hides when people haven't given up a seat in the metro or taken back a racist remark. I'm a little bit like that...
...summers later, in a resort near Cannes, Simone met Montand. Defying gossip, the pair promptly set out for Paris. Long after her divorce from Allegret, Simone admitted, "I still have the feeling that I'm living somewhat illegally with the gentleman for whom I left my husband...
Somewhat Jealous. She made more movies, played with Montand in stage and screen versions of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, was seen by U.S. audiences in the memorable chiller, Diaboligue. Yet Simone insists that she is too lazy to be a great star, and too bent on following her husband wherever his career takes him. "Not that I'm sacrificing anything," she adds hastily. "It's just that between lousy scripts and being with him, I'd rather be with him. Of course I'm jealous too," she says. "There's good reason...