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Three of the four episodes comprise a movie that a Parisian goes to see one afternoon after a spat with his wife. The first is a grisly little playlet borrowed from Stendhal's Italian Chronicles, about an aging Venetian duchess who gets even with her handsome, young, philandering lover by having him chased by a band of cutthroats. He finds momentary sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four Bodings | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Gigot. A nice sentimental comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays a Parisian janitor and looks like an overweight hippopotamus impersonating the poor little match girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 26, 1962 | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Gigot. A nice sentimental comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays a Parisian janitor and looks like an overweight hippopotamus impersonating the poor little match girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Visitors to the Paris show seemed to like what they saw. Chic Parisian housewives wiggled into the Renault's R-8 (the trade-up from the Dauphine) and squealed with delight at built-in vanity mirrors and soft new spongy seats. Men rocked the Morris 1100-an upgraded Mini Minor-to test its revolutionary liquid suspension system. Other members of the new line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Doing the Detroit Twist | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Jackie Gleason. Yessiree, the monster is none other than that ton of fun from television who in The Hustler scored as Minnesota Fats, a pool shark who looked like a whale with a carnation. In Gigot he scores again as Gigot, a Parisian janitor whose name means leg of mutton but who looks more like leg of dinosaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leg of Dinosaur | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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