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...impossible-the totally unlimited freedom of man-and pushed the concept into insanity. Along the way Sade desperately tried to force his imagination beyond human limits by inventing inhuman horrors, but he only managed to make his compilation shatteringly dreary. Toward the end of his 120 Days of Sodom he was no longer really writing, but simply setting down long lists of neatly numbered and tersely outlined enormities-the effect being ludicrous and totally unreal. Much of the current writing on sex approaches this quality of mechanical repetition and unreality...
...smaller arks has been moored just below a tributary of the Tiber; soon the gates will be open and the deluge will result. Sodom has been built out of charred plastic and spreads over 25 acres of Mount Etna. Katherine Dunham and her dancers were called in to provide the sin. Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics. "There's no obscenity," says Huston, "but you will know unspeakable things are going...
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...
Bearded Irish Cinemactor Peter O'Toole, 31, plays the messenger of God who gets saved from a fete worse than death in Sodom in John Huston's The Bible, now afilming in Rome. Off the set, he rains sulphur and brimstone all by himself, according to the paparazzi who tried to snap him downing some friendly firewater with comely British Starlet Barbara Steele. "He charged me, punched me in the face, grabbed my camera, smacking it against my ear," related one razed lensman. "I had to have five stitches taken." Tinkled O'Toole, with the tongue...
...Several pupils thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers; that the four horsemen appeared on the Acropolis; that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luther and John; that Eve was created from an apple; that Jesus was baptized by Moses; that Jezebel was Ahab's donkey; and that the stories by which Jesus taught were called parodies...