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This is neither a young man's manifesto nor an old man's apologia pro vita sua, but an interim report on himself by a clever, likable man of 35. British Novelist-Critic John Wain was 20 when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there...
Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita opened with a statue of Christ soaring through the skies above Rome. That was three years ago, followed by a long quiet period during which the masses have patiently waited for the master's next full-length film. Just released in Italy, Fellini's new "8½" begins with . . . what have we here? Soaring in the skies above Rome is not Christ but Marcello Mastroianni, all 154 pounds of him up there flying on a string like a great dihedral kite...
...later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
...pockets). He may or may not be following the woman-it is almost impossible to tell because he, like she, seems in no hurry. The director (Michelangelo Antonioni? Alain Resnais? Federico Fellini? Francois Truffaut?) is definitely in no hurry. The movie (La Notte? L'Av-ventura? La Dolce Vita? Hiroshima, Mon Amour?) is 50 minutes long already, and still the woman is walking, the man is walking, and the only real involvement anywhere is occurring among people, who are not walking but sitting, scattered throughout the theater, nodding and telling each other how real, how honest, how truly artful...
...Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around $160,000. "It's only fair," he shrugs. "After all, bosoms are bosoms...