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This pair, both Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source...
...kidnap a visiting American ambassador and hold him against the release of ten political prisoners. But, as one character remarks, "nothing happens as we intend." Acting as his customary farce majeure, Greene has the revolutionaries mistakenly snatch and fruitlessly hold for political ransom poor Charley Fortnum, a gentle, sixtyish, befuddled and more than slightly sodden Englishman who serves as honorary British consul in an upcountry town that boasts only three British passports...
Brides and grooms float in and out of the paintings of Marc Chagall, 86, like magical lovebirds. In an interview for Women's Wear Daily, the expatriate Russian, who has just opened the Biblical Message Museum of his work in Cimiez, France, talked about Valentina, sixtyish, his French wife of 20 years: "To encounter a woman in your life is a stroke of chance accorded by heaven. I don't think there was a creator who didn't depend on his wife's opinions. Oh, there were some. Mozart was unhappy with his wife...
...Italian Cinema Director Luchino Visconti, fabled Film Star Greta Garbo, 65, who has been dodging cameras for 30 years, has actually asked to play in his forthcoming movie version of Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. The role that caught her fancy: Maria Sophia, the sixtyish Queen of Naples, who will have only one scene. Nothing has been signed as yet, but Visconti sounded as if Garbo's reappearance was already a fait accompli. Said he: "I am very pleased at the idea that this woman, with her severe and authoritarian presence, should figure...
Some of those countres take a vacation from their usual jobs in order to be present for the social festivities of the count. But others come for another simple reason: the $12 a day the job pays. "I need the money, What else can I say?" comments a sixtyish lady in a flowered dress...