Word: riviera
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...Created Woman (Kingsley International) opens with a shot that promises a good deal more than the picture delivers. There lies Brigitte, stretched from end to end of the CinemaScope screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor's eyeball. In the hard sun of the Riviera her round little rear glows like a peach, and the camera lingers on the subject as if waiting for it to ripen. Pretty soon an aging lecher (Curt Jurgens) appears, and the two converse with only a sheet between them...
...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...
...picture does have its moments. Paolo Stoppa is excellent as the Count's harried servant; Chevalier can still put a peculiar lilt into a French song; and despite a washed-out process called Ferraniacolor, the Riveria remains the Riviera...
...Spyros Niarchos has an art collection worth millions scattered in half a dozen residences in the U.S. and abroad, ashore and afloat. To photograph the favorite paintings that Niarchos keeps aboard his palatial yacht Creole, TIME sent London-based Photographer Larry Burrows flying down to ViHefranche on the French Riviera. Burrows soon ran into trouble: customs red tape ruled out taking the art works ashore; vibration from the yacht's big generators (which Burrows checked by placing a Vichy bottle on deck, watching it quiver) made picture-taking aboard ship impossible. But with Niarchos' aid, Burrows found...
...bring in a train of wealth and credit that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris, a $575,000 Riviera villa and the largest privately owned sailing vessel afloat, the three-masted Creole. But his real Golden Fleece is his art collection...