Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...
This spirit is supplemented by the tribute to Rene Leynaud, written just after his death in 1944. Many have found Camus' undefined and imprecise use of the words "honor" and "decency" confusing: here is their explanation. A precis would be unfair, but Leynaud, who "never bargained about anything", will be recognized in his resemblance to Dr. Rieux in The Plague. When you have read the description of Leynaud, turn to Homage to an Exile, later in the volume, and read these sentences: "I cannot love all humanity except with a vast and somewhat abstract love. But I love...
...real cover portrait of Jean Kerr was painted, after seven hours of sittings, by Rene Robert Bouche, whose first TIME cover this is. An artist long familiar in the pages of Vogue, Bouche was described by TIME, on the occasion of his last one-man gallery show in Manhattan in October 1959, as the most fashionable portraitist now active. Bouche himself calls his paintings "loving criticisms...
...vespasiennes were a mark of social progress for a neighborhood and a token of masculine democracy. They have also become a quaint sight for tourists and a source of endless jokes. Last week, as the Paris municipal council debated their continuance, the pissoirs got an eloquent defense from Councilor Rene Fayssat...
None of the secondary parts require such virtuosity, but each of the minor actors has his own excellence. Jacques Charon, as a dim-witted, oafish servant manages to steal a scene even from Hirsch; Michel Aumont, an old miser, and Rene Camoin, an old wheezer, are unsurpassable; Micheline Boudet, believed to be an Egyptian gypsy (but in reality a long lost daughter of the old wheezer) has one scene all to herself, a scene which slowly and carefully raises the level of the audience's laughter from smiles to belly-laughs, one of the greatest scenes in the play...