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...make the film in English, dubbing it in Italian. Who will the actors be? "Everybody," says Dino. It is easy to imagine Van Johnson munching an apple offered him by Anita Ekberg, Frank Sinatra slinging stones at Jackie Gleason, Claudia Cardinale holding Laurence Olivier's head on a platter. No one has actually been cast yet, but two are all but certain to appear: Anthony Quinn, who has done some of his best work in De Laurentiis films (La Strada), and beautiful, languorous Silvana Mangano, who married Dino soon after she appeared, all youth, legs and bosom, in Bitter...
...television first barged so rudely onto the U.S. entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
...Singhalese is vastly popular with the vast majority. In Parliament last week, she had more than enough votes to beat down the no-confidence motion, 75-44. Explaining her disrupting success, a Singhalese politician said: "Other countries had a revolution, but the British handed us freedom on a platter. The average man found freedom was no different from life under the British. We are having our national revolution...
...American Protestants have staged their own Inquisition, Texas style, Houston 1960: about 300 brave, "patriotic" Protestant ministers ganged up on one lone Catholic, Senator Kennedy. Bravo, America! What grist for the mill, presented on a silver platter to Mr. Khrushchev on his arrival...
...self-anointed Negro holy man, the Rev. Claudius Henry, R.B. (for "Repairer of the Breach") stirred an estimated 20,000 bearded cultists into a back-to-Africa frenzy. No one paid much attention, even when Henry's ''Ras Tafarians"* pranced about holding aloft an empty platter they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that the Rev. Claudius Henry was no joke...