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Warm, human Primo provides the one bright spot in this flawed drama Best known to American audiences for his lead role in La Cage Aux Folles unshaven Ugo Tognazzi in baggy corduroys portrays Primo's working class origins as sensual and simple Primo imbodies an earthiness once quieter and more passionate than the mysteria of his aging but staff beautiful wife Barbara (Anoak Ainee...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: A Pointless Labyrinth | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Billy is 42, a full decade younger than his unshaven face and filthy, ragged clothing make him look. He has no home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Off the Street and Out of the Cold | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...begging his wife to paint her nipples with lipstick, Arthur (Steve Martin) comes off not playful, but pathetic. When he tries to excite her with a story of a couple making love in an elevator, he arouses only disgust. And when, unshaven and crude, he whines, "Joanie, I need you," it becomes clear that sexuality, instead of carrying him out of his squalid little world, only marks him more clearly as part of it. Arthur's insatiable libido--around which the movie revolves--may or may not represent the collective frustrations of the age but it sure doesn't make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Thirties | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

Agca made that point again when he was moved from central police headquarters in Rome to the city's Rebibbia prison after eight days of interrogation. Unshaven and blinking in the sunlight, his gray worsted, double-breasted suit hanging loosely on his lean frame, Agca declared remorse-for incidentally wounding the two female American tourists. Said he: "I am well. I am sorry not for the Pope but for the foreign tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Not Yet Hale, but Hearty | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...humor, his presence, his act seem not only post-funny but posthuman. And sometimes it can hurt. Three months ago, as the guest host of Fridays, Kaufman engaged in a seemingly spontaneous shoving match with the show's cast and crew; a week later he was back-unshaven, disheveled, distraught-to confess that his behavior had put his career in jeopardy with "the show-business community," then sobbed and fell silent. Was he serious? Is he mad? Perhaps he was once again playing the Duchampian agent provocateur of modern comedy: the Dada of haha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedy's Post-Funny School | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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