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...glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe's tallest, and was designed by a native son, world-famed Architect Gio Ponti...
That Kind of Woman (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) brings together Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter, although that kind of woman should never be mated with that kind of man. They meet in the club car of a Miami-to-New York train. "He doesn't look old enough to drink," taunts Sophia. The tall towhead leans forward over the table, sternly wobbles his eyeballs, says: "I'm old enough to do anything." Sure enough, the script requires her to pick...
...Black Orchid (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) is a sort of Marty-come-lately, inspired by one of the less startling of sociological discoveries: poor people are human. From this premise the moviemakers have deduced the facts of low-budget life as presented in this film: 1) poverty is cute, 2) stupidity is lovable, 3) sentimentality is feeling, 4) hard work never killed anybody, 5) suffering is actually good for people, and 6) anyway, there is always...
...civic center, with library and art gallery; Germany's Werner March is drafting plans for a $3,500,000 museum; Walter Gropius' Cambridge (Mass.) Architects Collaborative hopes to have a plan for a new university, with mosque, ready by next September; Italy's Designer-Architect Gio Ponti has already designed a ten-story headquarters for the Iraq Development Board and an eight-story office building for GORA (Government Oil Refineries Administration...
Naming no names, a Vatican City weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, blasted Italy's Cinemactress Sophia Loren and divorced Moviemaker Carlo Ponti, for their Mexican marriage by proxy last month. Because Ponti's first marriage still exists in the eyes of the church, said the newspaper, the pair are "public sinners," and if they live together in "pseudo-marriage," they are guilty of concubinage and liable to excommunication. Living together in a rented house in West Los Angeles, Sophia and her mate put their love before their religion. Said Actress Loren: "Everything I am today, I owe to Carlo...