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...Romy Schneider), consults a sex-crazed Viennese analyst (Peter Sellers), and calls forth memories of his sexual prowess, filmed appropriately in dull blue-grey hues. When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends by parachute (Ursula Andress). Sellers dresses up his cliche role with a pageboy wig and temper tantrums and is funnier than his costars, who play their parts as if for their own amusement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tired Tabby | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...them gave Napoleon ceaseless trouble. Pauline, an apparent nymphomaniac, had herself sculpted in the nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Declining Descendants | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...SILENCE. A tortured lesbian (Ingrid Thulin) and her nymphomaniac sister (Gunnel Lindblom) dominate Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama-though a child and an old man furnish scraps of evidence that the human condition may not be hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: may 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and an innocent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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