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Like the reigning romantic heroes of mid-19th century musical Europe, Chopin and Liszt, New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) had sex appeal aplenty. As a Wunderkind pianist-composer in the Paris salons, as a lion on tour in the U.S., the West Indies and Latin America, he dazzled the ladies with his pink-lemonade piano pieces and thrilled them with his frail, aristocratic good looks and his saturnine, bedroomy eyelids. One panting female, so the story goes, even swooped down upon him at the end of a recital, picked him up in her arms and made...
...iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff with motifs to create visual unities: the vast castle wall which dominates shot...
Adults Only? In Dallas, Viva Maria, a Brigitte Bardot-Jeanne Moreau movie, was barred to children. City Attorney N. Alex Bickley conceded that Viva was a "marginal case." But though he might have preferred a clearer example, he argued that it was rightly banned because of a few scenes that might suggest to juveniles that sexual promiscuity was desirable or commonly accepted...
...third was a period of fights and Crimson frustration. Gary Mitchell rammed home the sixth Engineer goal off a face-off with Harvard a man down. Then a minute later Ron Moreau stole the puck from Harvard's Terry Flaman and raised the margin...
...main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau could bask there in the reflected glow. Later, with Liz as cheerleader, Burton got up onstage and rumbled two songs from Camelot-winning less applause than a pop singer named Johnny Holliday, the current hero of tout Paris...