Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preceding era's prestigious portraits of European decadence but to the laws of the universe--the ways of the world--as the porno movie sees them. Ferreri's is a porn epic in the grand manner, a mordant, chilling, hilarious dirty movie that, for sheer audacious lubricity, out-tangoes "Last Tango in Paris" and almost gives the devilish Miss Jones a run for her money...
Like "Last Tango," "The Grande Bouffe" derives added shock value from the presence of stars: it's not Linda Lovelace, but respectable people like Marcello Mastroianni and Ugo Tognazzi taking the chance of their careers, letting loose, talking dirty, abandoning themselves to the urges of the unleashed libido...
...TANGO, a comedy by Slawomir Mrozek. Yes. Slawomir Mrozek. 8 p.m. at the Emerson Theater, Berkeley and Beacon Streets in Boston...
...nostalgically costumed dancing audience looked like leftovers from that famous last tango in Paris. But the scene was Manhattan's huge, tacky Roseland Ballroom, and the crowd was bebopping to '30s songs like Minnie the Moocher. The occasion: The Pointer Sisters' highly hooplaed New York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks...
...Guccione magazine, of course, is worth nothing without exposed flesh, and Viva has that. In a 15-page color spread about a promiscuous picnic in Old England, the softly lit photos show total female nudity but, surprisingly, the man is as carefully shielded as Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. A 14-page beefcake act by a ruggedly handsome young boxer is beautifully done, but is marred by self-conscious cropping of poses in the locker room and shower...