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...object of his love is a free-spirited flapper named Ada, played by a free-spirited actress named Dominique Sanda. Sanda, 23, is irresistible to most of Europe's leading film makers: in 1970 Bertolucci gave her a starring role in The Conformist and later conceived Last Tango in Paris with her hi mind (she was unavailable). The late Vittorio De Sica, equally enchanted, cast her as the doomed heiress in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and she has also appeared in a film by Luchino Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge of the forest at Rambouillet outside...
...that staid Lisbon has yet turned into another Copenhagen. But sexually explicit Danish magazines are now available on newspaper kiosks along with tamer publications like Penthouse. Uncut versions of previously forbidden films such as Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...
Last month's release of Roxy & Elsewhere, a live Zappa album, makes the same point: Zappa has not yet made a firm commitment either to commercialism and top-40 rock, or to original, honest music that disregards industry and public pressure to record million-selling albums. "Be-Bop Tango" is among the best cuts on the new record because it typifies Zappa music and Zappa humor. If you listen carefully to George Duke's scat singing, you hear strains of Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" and a Zappa remark about 4/4 time: "It's a pedestrian beat...
...northern Italy and a year of shooting on a set in Hollywood," sums up Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, "is the same as the difference between a Fiat 500 and a Cadillac." Bertolucci should know, having chauffeured himself from the low-budget The Spider's Stratagem through Last Tango in Paris to his current luxury-class movie, 1900, now being shot near Parma. The film, chronicling eight decades of Italian history, stars Burt Lancaster as a patriarchal land baron and Sterling Hayden as a peasant farmer. Expected to cost $6.5 million, it will be the most expensive movie in Italian...
Thru Sat.: Last Tango in Paris, 2:45, 7:15 and A Streetcar Named Desire...