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...film career that spans half a century, the Italian-born De Laurentiis produced a handful of successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...
...good feeling ended in the '50s when, ironically, Hollywood got a liberal conscience and concentrated on making amends to blacks. Hispanic roles became rare, and even those tended toward gang lords and victims. Mexican-born Anthony Quinn went abroad to graduate from Frito Bandito roles to stardom in La Strada and Zorba the Greek. The signal film was West Side Story. It said Latins were no longer domesticated birds of colorful plumage; now they were a social problem, a political cause set to barrio rhythms. What kind of guarantee was that for box-office gold...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...
...anyway, the X1/9 and the flashy Spider 2000, assembled by Coachmakers Bertone and Pininfarina, respectively, but containing many Fiat parts, including the engine. Fiat will no longer sell those cars, although it will maintain its U.S. parts and service network for them as well as for the Strada, which it quietly stopped selling in the U.S. last year...
...Strada--Wednesday at 5 p.m.; with Paul Delvaux, or the Forbidden Women and A page of Love at 8 p.m.; Carpenter Center...