Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blindfold marks the Hollywood debut of Claudia Cardinale, who must regret the expensive miracles of mismanagement worked in her behalf. Though still identifiable by her accent and by moviedom's quickest smile, CeeCee is lacquered with a standard starlet finish that makes her beauty appear sprayed on. Rock Hudson, meanwhile, plays his own 50th movie role as if to refute the hypothesis that experience is the best teacher...
...senior waxed eloquent on the possibilities of greater equality: "It'll be okay, but none of this 'ladies first' crap. In other lines, the guys-in-charge snarl at us and smile at them. But now Cliffies will get the same lousy section men we do, and the myth of the brain gap will disappear...
...warm and creamy as milk fresh out of the barn cow. Mostly, the songs were samplings of his biggest hits-Anytime, Bouquet of Roses-flavored with a touch of falsetto and yodel-like loops that carried that special stamp of the hill country. Trading on a broad, half-moon smile and an ultra-relaxed manner that could charm the warts off a hog's back, he drew a standing ovation and a stampede of well-wishers...
...extraordinary drive. In Cambridge some time ago, however, Reston described a contribution his wife has made to his career that casts the whole thing in a different light. He is regarded as an expert listener. How did he acquire that skill? "Well, first of all," he said with a smile "you marry the right girl. And she tells you: You're talking too much. You cut him off just when he was about to tell you something...
...talent found outside the Montand family, I was particularly impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...