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...Vie de la Soir...
Director Alexander Astruc and screenplay writer Roland Laudenbach take great care to preserve in End of Desire the mood of Guy de Maupassant's Une Vie. They translate novel into movie with a confident, graceful fluency. The picture does not show the strain to telescoping and rearranging that often ruins adaptations; End of Desire seems like a filmed transliteration of the original story. In Maria Schell's dolorous eyes, Maupassant's anguish over undeserved suffering arrives on the screen intact...
...house of Hachette only grows larger. Its gross volume of $283 million makes it one of the country's biggest businesses. Last month France's largest sports daily, L'Equipe (circ. 300,000), decided to give its monthly magazine Sport & Vie a new name-Vive les Vacances!-and itself a new partner: Hachette. And last week Hachette added two new names to its list of magazines: Caroline, an illustrated weekly for young girls, and Colibri (Hummingbird), a puzzle, game and picture book for children...
...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...
Hewlett, 23 seconds behind the winner, led Machooka by 24 seconds. Brown's Vie Boog and Dave Fariey were within six seconds of Machooka...