Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-Italian films in years offers Vittorio Gassman as a flashy Roman playboy whose jetaway pace spells disaster for a shy young law student...
...played-out playboy, Ronet is supremely Malleable. He looks like a Gallic Tony Curtis and pours out the heeltap of his charm like stale champagne. Malle himself must be credited with clever cutting and a well-told tale, but unfortunately he too often vaults from fiction to philosophy, and he has no head for heights. No doubt he is right, if tiresomely unoriginal, when he says that in an anxious age big-city dwellers are too often out of touch with each other and with the fundamental realities of their lives. But the spectator's eyes will probably glaze...
...from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark was not there, but Gurney was-in a bright red Lotus 19 with a 375-h.p. Ford Fairlane engine. Foyt's car was an older, rear-engined Scarab (formerly owned by Millionaire Playboy Lance Reventlow), outfitted with a 430-h.p. Chevrolet power plant. "Horsepower," Foyt grunted...
...Commission, and cohorts in other states, may be attempting to insulate the better classes from life and to keep the lower classes groveling in it. In support of this view, the following data can be added to the summary of the Square study: "Playboy" magazine, lately the recognized journal of high-brow and middle-brow culture, is how under prosecution in New York for a photo feature on the export version of a recent Jayne Mansfield movie. Freely for sale, cheap in the Square is Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, with an obscenity density of 27.60 and the same...
Only in the last scene does The Easy Life abandon its humor. Smarting from the recognition of his own innocence, still enchanted by the exuberant playboy, Roberto suddenly completes his metamorphosis from wonkdom. Heady with a taste of Bruno's freedom, he urges Bruno to drive on a winding mountain road at breakneck speed. And that's exactly what Bruno does. Roberto goes over the cliffe with the sports car. Bruno is tossed safely aside, just in the nick of time. As Bruno views Roberto's corpse, he is reminded of the value of friendship and human beings. And Roberto...