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...engaging bachelor with a string of love affairs behind him (one with Actress Adriana Asti, who played the lead in his first two films), Bertolucci loves to prowl through art galleries, and has stuffed his small flat in a Rome apartment hotel with records and books. "Literature was the past that I had to overcome and contradict with something," Bertolucci has said, "and that something was the cinema. If I had to talk about authors who formed me, I would say Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Chandler and Hammett." Another, even more perceptible influence might be Freud. Bertolucci went into psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bertolucci: Choreographer for the Movie Camera | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...court. If convicted, offenders will be fined up to $1,000 a day, of which the complainant may be awarded a bounty of as much as 50%. More important, the city is spending $800,000 to hire and equip a noise-abatement staff. Starting next week, twelve inspectors will prowl the city with sensitive decibel counters, ready to slap violators with $500 fines on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shh! | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

SUDDENLY, THERE was something sweet and fetching, like magnolias, in the air. Julian magic was on the prowl. His eyelashes purring above the gentle, precise line of his pawing humor as he preached the virtues of being FMBC. Bond's playful political evangelism spread its sticky web. An elegant, feline charisma was at work...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Troubled Alliance Endures | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...Frogs, Ray Milland is devoured by-you guessed it. In The Night of the Lepus, Janet Leigh is hungrily eyed by 1,500 mad, mutant rabbits, photographed so that they appear six feet tall. In Dr. Phibes, bats, bees, rats and locusts are on an angry prowl. Yet to come are a thriller about man-killing spiders; a spine-tingler about murderous house cats; something called Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; Rats, Rats, Rats; and the inevitable Dr. Phibes Rises Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noah's Ark of Horrors | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...only show in town for the practicing homosexual. He has even been into "leather," gives an understanding report of the motives (and sufferings) of drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals. He records that his own first homosexual encounter was in a bathhouse where, "clad only in white towels, men prowl the hallways, groping each other in furtive search for instant sex . . . Disgusting? Yes, perhaps. Yet lasting friendships are quite commonly begun in bathhouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Difference | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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