Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...jart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut in the relentlessly athletic work, which is set to music from Bach's Mass in B-minor with frequent explosions of Argentine tango, Béjart observed: Faust is not just a role, "it's a mid-life crisis. You want to live again. You want to be young again...
Surprising Gibbon. One of the actresses, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando's co-star in Last Tango in Paris, so objected to her own nude scenes that she walked off the set and was replaced by an unknown English actress, Teresa Ann Savoy. McDowell believes that Last Tango gave Schneider such a phobia about nudity that she could not appear in a movie like Caligula...
...need which the Hustle filled in the States for a dance in which the partners touch, a dance with complicated variations on a single step, simply does not exist here. The cumbia, the parrandera, the marinera all fit the bill and all are actively danced; even, on occasion, the tango. As the party progresses, however, dancers settle into what is most familiar--the wiggling shoulders, swinging arms, smooth steps, and sideward swaying of the hips that characterize the cumbia...