Word: ponty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mascia analyzes lugubrious Antonio. "Not even our nice new apartment has made you smile," she mourns. True, all too true. The spaniel packs a lunch and entrains for Italy. But the old union is doomed. Giovanna has a lover, a bambino (Carlo Ponti Jr.) and a job sandpapering the rumps of clothing dummies. Henry Mancini's calorific music sounds the knell for Antonio. He gets its message and entrains to Russia, to Mascia and the glorious new housing project where the balalaikas play...
...month's vacation from the attentions of Rome's paparazzi went Sophia Loren, 35, with her husband, Italian Film Producer Carlo Ponti, and their 18-month-old son Cheepy (C.P. Jr.). On the well-guarded Adriatic island of Yugoslavia's President Tito, a longtime Loren friend, photographers will be no problem-though Cheepy's language may cause some international complications. Since his father speaks to him only in Italian, his mother in English and his nursemaid in German, the youngest Ponti communicates in a linguistic potpourri ("Morgen acqua okay" -'This morning the water is fine...
...since 1936 because he cannot pay the fees -roughly $1,500-for the required medical examinations. Even with money, the process is by no means easy. Only an average 325 annulments are granted annually by Italian tribunals. Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni waited eight years for a decree. Producer Carlo Ponti gave up and became a French citizen to marry Sophia Loren...
Staffing plans and market strategy of the Aubrey regime are all pinned to youth. He will probably not be employing Producers Martin Ransohoff and Carlo Ponti (two of whose projects he dropped), he says, until "they can put their heads in the right place." Translation: until they learn to operate within lower budgets. Aubrey's commitments include the next two Beatles pictures, one on groupies, plus an adaptation of Abbie Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It. To reach the kids, Aubrey plans to shift the emphasis of MGM promotion efforts and advertising from standard newspapers...