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...them, and conquest of fear is one of man's greatest needs"). Bonatti ranks among the world's finest mountaineers, is certainly one of the toughest. A Lombard laborer's son, he quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru, survived six days and five nights while clawing alone up sheer rock and ice. Widely hailed...
From the moment it unveils its mock-hero, Rock Hunter (Tony Randall), ensconced side-screen as a one-man band in a spoof of the awe-struck music that always accompanies the searchlights introducing a Fox movie, Success is obviously in merry contempt of all that is sacred. The ensuing titles compete hopelessly with a series of TV commercials, totally irrelevant, but so distractingly zany that nobody will pay the least attention to the screen credits. Success roars onward, steadily more outrageous, shamelessly promoting forthcoming Fox movies (Peyton Place, Kiss Them for Me) and donating scads of free ad space...
...last reel, he doesn't know what Howard looks like), his tunnel vision in losing Anita's high-heeled trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody...
Distress Call. Snia Viscosa has been a one-man outfit almost since the day Marinotti appeared in Milan 28 years ago. Born on the Venetian plains, he had already won a reputation as a hustling textile salesman, first working for Italy's Cascagni Seta mills, where, at 23, he was manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash...
Back from Denmark to resume his one-man show, this time in Los Angeles' Greek Theater, puckish Pianist Victor Borge happily described his newly purchased, 237-year-old castle near Copenhagen as "larger than Lauritz Melchior, although smaller than the Waldorf-Astoria." Called Frydenlund, the place has no ghosts or battlements (he says it qualifies as a castle because four Kings have lived there), but it does have a 1,600-tree apple orchard and a lot of modern orchard equipment, which he calculates will pay for itself "in exactly 216 years...