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...they'd served in as of the women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body, to foreign films, which had then what most of them lack now: star quality...
...DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
...Start to finish, Jersey Boys is fast, fun and mostly engaging. It's awfully well cast-I liked all four faux-Seasons. As Frankie, Young hasn't the sharp angles of Valli's face, but a soft oval sweetness. His falsetto is impressive, except in a narrow stripe (three- or four-note range) where he's very thin. Granted, his voice isn't double-tracked, as Valli's often was on records, and I caught Young on a night when he'd already done a matinee. On the pristinely produced Jersey Boys original cast CD (with helpful liner notes...
...further and say that this music is as sharp, smart, tuneful and complex as any new Broadway scores not of the Sondheim school. I mean, better than the scores of The Producers, Hairspray, Avenue Q, Spamalot-which happen to be the last four Tony-winning musicals. Gaudio, Valli, DeVito, Massi and Crewe left a legacy of potent, sophisticated songs. Pop-classic music for all seasons...