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Word: topi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slumps up the tenement stairs, leaking sighs, an old, sick, fat woman with an elastic bandage on one leg. Can this really be Simone Signoret, the stunning actress who won a 1959 Oscar for her role as Laurence Harvey's lover in Room at the Topi? Yes. Time is a carrion-eating bird, and this is what appears left of Signoret, 57, unrecognizable except for those cat's eyes. She is cast all too convincingly as a broken-down ex-hooker who squeezes out a living in a seedy quarter of Paris by being a foster grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Even an Oscar Would Weep | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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