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...star in Hollywood as well as Italian movies. The list is long and enticing: Valentina Cortese, who made the 40s "Thieves Highway"; delicate Pier Angeli and her twin sister Marisa Pavan; Magnani, who won an Oscar for her first Hollywood movie, "The Rose Tattoo"; and the ever-intoxicating Valli (Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case...
...death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria Ciangottini), her face innocent and knowing, beckons to Mastroianni, and in his wry stupor he waves her entreaties away...
...seem not to interest Scorsese for their contribution to the cinematic life force - only as incidental expressions of the films' matter and manner. Loren, for instance: he zips past her to concentrate on the delectable comic turn by Paolo Stoppa. Scorsese is more taken by the light playing on Valli's face than the face itself; on the textures of Monica Vitti's hair, in the crystalline monochrome of "L'Avventura," than on the subtlety with which Vitti reveals a wounded soul through huge, blank eyes. In all Scorsese's reveries of a boyhood falling in love with movies, there...
...born in New York in 1982 and my parents moved to England eight months later. I don’t remember the flight myself, but apparently the TWA passengers who were treated to my best Frankie Valli impression for seven hours across the Atlantic have never forgotten it. Our sojourn in London was only meant to last 18 months, but we’re still there almost 20 years later. I guess my parents liked it. And, to this day, anyone who casually meets me will think that I am as English as mushy vegetables and sexual repression...
...Were" by Babs; "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks; "Dancing Machine" by Jackson 5; "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John. By 1975 it was getting worse: "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain and Tenille; "My Eyes Adored You" by Frankie Valli; "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John; "One of These Nights" by The Eagles; "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell; and "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver...