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LaLonde, 37, an appliance salesman, said he decided to speak at last once his daughter was returned to safety in Massachusetts...
...finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger, he is the old seducer whose spirit nearly broke when his heart did. Dark Eyes won Mastroianni the Best Actor prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and, by rights, should earn him an Oscar nomination next February...
...ease in the world outside Manhattan; he has a loving wife (Lorraine Bracco) and a fine young son. For that matter, why should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though she has a rich man to provide for her, she needs a protector. Perhaps she needs a lover. And Mike surely needs danger...
...Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool in his kitchen...
Hugh Welch is a Buick salesman in the small Michigan town where he was born and raised. One Fourth of July he, his wife and two small daughters have visitors: Hugh's younger sister Dorsey, an astrophysicist, arrives with her young son Noah, who is deaf, and her husband Simon, an actor. The day is hot. Hugh and Dorsey buy fireworks from a woman who remembers them both as children. Supper is served. The pyrotechnics go off without a hitch. Dorsey explains why Noah likes the cherry bombs: "He can feel their shock waves with his skin...