Word: valentina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Night. Another sweet movie by Truffaut, this may be more autobiographical than the others (400 Blows was the first in the line), as he plays himself. Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jacqueline Bisset, and Valentina Cortese, it is about the making of a movie called "Meet Pamela." Truffaut is perhaps too enamored, wistfully so, of his material--movie-making comes off as an experiment in building T-group togetherness. The actors live harder than the parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits...
...sort of personalities that would be recognizable in any film company. There is the eager, flustered young leading man (Jean-Pierre Léaud); the older leading man with the assurance of experience (Jean-Pierre Aumont); and the older leading woman who drinks too much and muddles her scenes (Valentina Cortèse). There is the young leading woman, an American who has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and is making her first film in over a year (Jacqueline Bisset); the film groupie who starts out as a script girl and ends up running off with the stunt...
Brides and grooms float in and out of the paintings of Marc Chagall, 86, like magical lovebirds. In an interview for Women's Wear Daily, the expatriate Russian, who has just opened the Biblical Message Museum of his work in Cimiez, France, talked about Valentina, sixtyish, his French wife of 20 years: "To encounter a woman in your life is a stroke of chance accorded by heaven. I don't think there was a creator who didn't depend on his wife's opinions. Oh, there were some. Mozart was unhappy with his wife...
...last week, and U.S. Moon Walker Neil Armstrong was inspecting the cosmonauts' Star City compound outside Moscow, the Soviets launched a two-man spaceship, Soyuz 9. into orbit around the earth. On board were Vostok 3 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, 40-husband of the world's only spacewoman, Valentina Tereshkova-and Rookie Vitaly Sevastyanov, 35. They were the first Russians in space since last October's triple launch of manned Soviet spacecraft...