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...story is set in Sicily, where honor is traditionally worth more than life-or wife. The villain of the piece is a mousy impoverished nobleman (Marcello Mastroianni), living on heirlooms in the last unrented rooms of the family palace. He spends most of his time wearily dodging his wife, diligently troweling pomatum on his girlish Sicilian ringlets, meticulously adjusting his hair net, nervously encouraging a limp black mustache that seems to be made of dyed spaghetti. At every opportunity he examines his mirror with watery eyes and murmurs to himself contentedly, "No doubt about it, I am an impressive type...
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Decidedly Different. It all seemed pretty familiar-the homey pitch, the church-folk tone, the appeal to kinship. But as Orval Faubus canvassed Arkansas last week, something was decidedly different. Gone was the fiery segregationist fervor that only five years ago spread his name through the world as the villain of Little Rock. Gone were his sarcastic references to "outsiders," to federal troops, to the Supreme Court, to the monstrous, power-grabbing U.S. Government. No longer did he hold up segregation literature and talk about the evils of integration; he scarcely mentioned integration at all. In fact, hard...
...months Hollywood and Vine has buzzed with gossip of a really big show cranking up in the movie capital. Producer: the U.S. Justice Department, whose trustbusters have long been roaming the town like talent scouts interviewing actors, agents and executives. Reluctant villain: the mammoth MCA Inc., which acts as agent for half or more of the U.S.'s top actors, is the nation's largest producer of filmed television shows, leases a library of old movies for late-night TViewing, and last year grossed $82.4 million. It would be an antitrust epic, and the story line would...
Though the two Communist powers now seldom indulge in public name-calling, thinly disguised ideological salvos still break the sullen silence. Recently Chinese dialecticians disinterred an ancient Marxist villain, Karl Kautsky, Austrian contemporary of Karl Marx, who was a moderate and Social Democrat-among the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon...