Word: montand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reviled, of France's movie auteurs. A few days before, he had shown his new movie, Under the Sun of Satan, a stately adaptation of the Georges Bernanos novel about a self-torturing priest (Gerard Depardieu); its directorial style fell somewhere between rigor and rigor mortis. And now Yves Montand, president of this year's festival jury, was announcing the award of the Palme d'Or to Pialat's dour drama -- the first local product to grab the top prize since A Man and a Woman at the 20th fest...
Signoret's autobiographical works filled in the details of a personal life whose outlines were already well known. Divorced from Director Yves Allegret in l949, she married Actor-Singer Yves Montand two years later. Despite Montand's well-publicized fling with Marilyn Monroe in 1960, the couple were together for 36 years. "I love her more than ever today," Montand told an interviewer in 1972, "because she is a woman of extraordinary vitality and enthusiasm...
...enthusiasm that the couple shared throughout their marriage was left-wing politics. Although they never joined the Communist Party, Signoret and Montand were considered two of France's best-known fellow travelers until the Soviets' 1956 invasion of Hungary dashed their faith in the Soviet Union as the wave of the future. They never wavered in their support for human-rights causes, however. Signoret was most recently active on behalf of the "SOS- Racisme" antiracist movement in France. But as she put it last spring, "I have crossed the border into antiCommunism." Summing up her career, Author Max Gallo wrote...
...Summers devotes most of his book to relatively unpublicized griefs, including a dozen abortions, several suicide attempts, and inconclusive liaisons with scores of men, from anonymous pickups to Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Yves Montand. With the help of some 600 new interviews, Summers proposes but does not prove several dark scenarios, including the destruction of records linking Marilyn with her last lover, Robert Kennedy. Ultimately, Goddess portrays a born victim, an essentially simple soul far out of her depth. Her psychiatrist tells it all in one sentence. The day of her death, Marilyn "expressed considerable dissatisfaction that here...
Another pity, both in New York and the six other American and Canadian cities Montand will visit on his six-week tour, is that he is booked into such huge theaters. The Metropolitan, for example, seats about 4,000; the Olympia in Paris, where Montand is accustomed to playing, holds only 2,100. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed for grand opera, not intimacy and even Montand's considerable charm is not large enough to fill it, or the other vast halls he will be playing...