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Short of shooting her, as in the movie Divorce-Italian Style, there is virtually no way for a man to shed his wife in divorceless Italy. Film Producer Carlo Ponti made a game try when he got a legal separation from his wife, arranged a Mexican divorce, and then went through a Mexican marriage with Actress Sophia Loren. But Italian authorities countered that gambit with ease: they recognized the marriage, not the divorce, and they hit Ponti with a bigamy charge. Sending lawyers to the defense on two continents, Ponti got a Mexican court to void his marriage to Sophia...
Swathed in furs she viewed the Bay of Angels in wintry Nice. And for Sophia Loren, 30, her dark glasses must have seemed rose-colored, because Producer Carlo Ponti, 52, has been granted French citizenship, and has carte blanche in France to marry her. He wed her before, but was forced to annul the marriage when their native Italy threatened bigamy proceedings; it does not recognize his 1957 Mexican divorce from his first wife. Carlo and Sophia celebrated with a tricolored cake, and Ponti displayed Gallic finesse when asked if they would remarry. "It is not excluded," said...
Partly, the European "revival is a sign of tiredness and nostalgia for calmer times," says Milan Architect Gio Ponti. Hugh G. Wakefield of the Victoria and Albert Museum attributes the renewal to the cyclical rhythm in art taste: "Art nouveau is easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern...
...Catherine Spaak, 19, is a lithe, wide-eyed, legal-age Lolita type who calls Belgium's Foreign Minister Oncle Paul Henri. She got her start at 15 in Carlo Ponti's The Adolescents, recently taught herself English to appear in The Empty Canvas with Horst Buchholz and Bette Davis. Catherine recently finished a remake of La Ronde in Paris, then circled back to Rome to start work on Three Nights of Love...
...keyboard a minimum of twelve hours a day, the well-prepared Russian trio held their practice sessions to four hours at the most, then blithely played soccer and lounged on the sloping lawns. It was downright disconcerting. "To us Americans, that week was like jail," groaned Michael Ponti, 26. "To them it was a paradise...