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...spectator smiles back. Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins. But the spectator's smile does not last long. II Bidone begins as a common Italian comedy of criminal errors but it ends as the tragedy of an aging wise...
...found four qualified applicants. Wayne State University, on the other hand, rejected a scholarship restricted to a student "who does not smoke, drink, gamble, go to church or otherwise endanger his health."-Whose many other philanthropies included wounded veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Red Cross, and Master Swindler Gaston Bullock Means, to whom she reportedly paid at least $100,000 in 1932 for the source of threatening letters sent to her and signed "Agents of Moscow" Means was never tried for defrauding Mrs. Shepard; he had already been indicted for cheating Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner...
...extraordinary people, it was the adventurer Casanova and the swindler Cagliostro who raised deception to a way of life and a high art; Machiavelli who made it a cardinal principle of statecraft; while Mussolini was by no means the first Italian leader to perish finally believing the deceptions he had himself created. At the start, Barzini thinks, Mussolini "watched him self playing the great role he was invent ing as gusto," he but went over the along, years he hamming at it began to with believe the stirring show and the lies and flattery, came to read his own news...
...Rattigan. Last season Charles Boyer starred in Lord Pengo, a tracing-paper-thin characterization of Art Wheeler-Dealer Jo seph Duveen. Boyer was slyly fascinating; the play provoked yawns. In Man and Boy, Boyer plays Gregor Antonescu, a blurry blotting-pad version of the 20th century's master swindler, Ivar Kreuger. Boyer makes a charming cad; the play is a jaw-aching bore. If the evening proves anything, it is merely that actors who are graded 100 for talent sometimes get zero for judgment...
...unclear whether "The Swindler" refers to one of the three major characters of his 1955 film, or to Director Federico Fellini himself. If one went to "The Swindler" in the proper mind-obliterating mood, one might be able to see it as described in the little blurb handed out by the Brattle: "Here, Fellini makes no concessions; with an utterly serious tone, he throws in our face all the desolate solitude, the crucl absurdity of the world: it is a cry from hell." Unfortunately for Fellini, the long-distance lines from hell have been rather busy lately, and his message...