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There was an orchestra--Bingo-Bango Playing for us to dance the tango And the people all clapped as we arose For her sweet face and my new clothes...
...chorus of beasts moves as though there weren't enough elbow room to carry out Linda Rabhan's distinctive and varied choreography. Nonetheless, a tango in which Ravenal as Eve dances Richard Bangs's petulant Adam prone and a hammy vaudeville routine involving Adam and the animals are striking set pieces which make their point visually and musically more effectively than much of the verbal exchange...
After making Last Tango in Paris back in 1973, Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci was prosecuted for obscenity, buffeted by public controversy and caught in a crossfire of critical overkill -pans on one side, panegyrics on the other. But at least he got his movie into the theaters...
...Bertolucci, 36, has come in with 1900, one of the most eagerly awaited films of recent years, and already his troubles over Last Tango look like tiddlywinks. The new picture is a year late, $5 million over budget, and-with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from...
Marxist Bias. "It's all Bertolucci's fault," said the dapper Grimaldi, 52, while on a visit to New York City last week. "I think Last Tango went to his head. He has become an egomaniac, a very sick man." Bertolucci, biting his knuckles in his Rome apartment, charged Grimaldi with censorship and, half seriously, with putting "a kind of curse on me-a macumba." In Hollywood a top film executive suggested that after the succès de scandale of Last Tango, the big studios probably invested in Bertolucci without scrutinizing his plans. (In addition to Paramount...