Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
...Ahead lay still more prickly years, not mentioned in Early Havoc, when June bounced from other marathons to modeling, from soap operas to summer stock, before she broke into lights. June's final judgment of her Early Havoc: "I had learned a lot. I would be careful of everybody and everything . . . You can take the girl out of vaudeville, but you can't take the vaudeville out of the girl...
...Mattei is some go-getter. A policeman's son, slim, faultlessly tailored Financier Mattei in 14 years has built the state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...
...until she finds herself in a penthouse with a famous playwright (Dan O'Herlihy), and all of Manhattan at her feet-in Eastman Color. How happy she seems, but how miserable she really is. "Something,'' the heroine sighs, "is missing." Certainly not one soap-opera cliche is missing...