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...shorts offered a lesson in liberalism: they opened middle America's ears to a burgeoning range of music. Not just black artists but country singers (Eddie Younger), opera stars (Nino Martini) and Chinese-American flappers (Anna Chang) burst into the consciousness of audiences who may at first have resisted the performers as foreign, then melted in the presence of all that charm, talent, eagerness to please...
...comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...
...Professor Wallace of Sloves of the Fashion Institute of Technology on the decision by Carolyn Bessette, recent bride of John F. Kennedy Jr., to wear a wedding dress designed by Nino Cerruti...
...perhaps to move them off the fence into alignment against him. Georgetown University law professor Mark Tushnet, who has studied the personal papers of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, says Scalia "annoyed everybody at one time or another...They'd get over it and say, 'That's just how Nino is,' and then he'd do something else. It has to have left some residue of unwillingness to accommodate...
...every aspect of this lighter-than-air film. The plot is lovingly predictable. Sixteen year old Genvieve (Catherine Deneuve) is leered at by almost every male in the village of Cherbourg where she works in her mother's umbrella store. She falls for the earnestly handsome automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc Michel). Guy, of course...