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...wife divorced him over it, his fortune was squandered on it, and the story goes that after he had given his collection to Rouen, he moved into a church tower. On certain days, he could be seen sitting on a curbstone, dining from a tin of sardines-with a servant standing in readiness behind him with a white linen napkin...
...chronicles the rise and fall of a wily miser who pretends to be dying in order to trick his equally greedy friends into bringing him costly deathbed gifts. Each donor believes that he will be Volpone's sole beneficiary-a notion ironically dispelled when the miser's servant writes his own name into his boss's blank will...
...voluptuary (Rex Harrison) who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...
...chance. Wherever Romina goes, her actress mother is just a step behind. "She will do everything," says Linda. "She sings beautifully. She paints, she dances like a dream. She even writes poetry." Linda, now 42, considers herself not a pushy stage mother but a servant of destiny. Her astrologer, she explains, prophesied that Romina would have "all and everything Napoleon had without the downfall. I was told this at her birth, so I was able to prepare." But Hollywood was not prepared for Linda's big Power play. During the past month, she has waged a selling campaign that...
Premier Kollias, a bespectacled, mustachioed man who had a reputation as a conservative while a civil servant, spelled out the government's new program on radio. He promised something for just about everybody. Greece's government, he said, endorsed the ideals of the United Nations and would stand by its commitment to NATO. It would try and settle the dispute with Turkey over Cyprus in an amicable way, would work at home for better education and government services, for higher wages and better distribution of the country's wealth. Kollias also promised to reform the country's backbiting political system...