Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press amateurs into service as actors. These techniques, born of economic necessity, gave their films a fresh, simple quality that made Hollywood's chrome-edged product seem brassier than ever. They took their themes from the world around them: war, occupation, poverty, misery and human courage. Sex was merely incidental to such plots, but since it was handled in the casual manner in which Italians regard sex, it startled U.S. audiences, accustomed to the sniggering censorship of the Breen office...
...selling power of sex was brought home to the Italian industry by Bitter Rice, a second-rate movie with arty pretensions and a nodding gesture to social problems (the exploitation of women workers in Italy's rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for the tightly clad, womanly figure of Silvana Mangano, who helped make the picture the biggest-grossing foreign-language film ever shown in the U.S. Now the Italians have made a picture entitled Sensuality, starring Newcomer Eleonora Rossi-Drago, with which they expect to clean up in the U.S.-if it gets...
Sunny Side. In its bid for the U.S. market, the maturing Italian industry is now trying to prove that it can develop something more than sex and social realism. With its U.S. dollars, Italian Films Export is staging a Hollywood-like "Italian Film Festival" in Manhattan in October, which will offer a different production every night for seven nights. They include Gogol's satiric The Overcoat; De Sica's tragic Umberto D.; the comic Little World of Don Camilla, a story of rivalry between a priest and a Communist leader; and a love story, Two Cents Worth...
From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a few reservations about the "highly precise conclusions [he boldly drew] from the limited samples." Also, even though the doctor's own figures didn't lie, the statisticians wondered about his interviewees, some of whom were possibly afflicted with "inaccuracies of memory." The committee suspects that the variable human...
...horse . . . the loud ego of genius, real genius." Raking together the cash and crew to shoot the picture, he explains to his scriptwriter how he intends "to sneak in the truth" and make it the kind of Zelsmith Production people respect: "I give them the sex and the brawl, but also a little of the ache and the agony of life. The lousy beauty of it, the crummy pleasures of kids and family life, and art shots and a pain in the heart...