Word: star
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth session of the sergeants' slow-motion trial, the prosecution, after a month of stalling, finally produced its star witness, Mrs. Sukran Gall, Turkish-born wife of a U.S. electrician. Admitting that she had been employed by the Turkish treasury to entrap the Americans, Mrs. Gall testified that she had bought nearly 5,000 illicit dollars from three of the sergeants. But under questioning she admitted she had never, in fact, received any money directly from the sergeants, instead had dealt through the Turkish manager of the N.C.O. club maintained by U.S. forces assigned to NATO's southeastern...
...hole. And those who like to follow the impressive accomplishments of men and machines-from tunnels to tough road jobs, to bridge building in Pakistan-may not mind the pure corn of the story line and the predictable antics of those two hefty part ners, Keenan Wynn and Decathlon Star Bob Mathias...
...Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke until the great moment when...
...Anatomy of Love (Lux Film Cines; Kassler), an Italian film that tells five short stories, is at its best in the two that star Vittorio De Sica: as a count who has lost everything but his nobility ("I'd decided not to outlive my youth no matter how rich I was"), and as a Naples bus driver, a laughing hedonist who has developed a talent for catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven...
Although marquees proclaim Sophia Loren as the female star of Anatomy of Love, the film was made some years ago, and she is little more than a teen-age straight woman for Toto the comedian. She appears only in the final episode, a brief, ridiculous farce. Sophia nonetheless shows the shape of things to come...