Word: vulgarizer
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...good to live. One reviewer warned: "If you want to lose $400,000, invest here." Snuffled another: "It's absolutely beautiful. What a shame it won't run." When La Mancha opened in a Greenwich Village theater, some New York critics seemed to agree. One called it "vulgar," another said that the show "ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away." But others called it "inspired," "a triumph," and "a dream of a musical." For six weeks, the show lived a word-of-mouth existence, until at last it caught...
Pablo is not a snob, but his views are crisply delivered. "I did jeweled eyes for the magazines, and now women call and say they want them," he moans. "It is not to be believed." Pablo has strong dislikes: "Pink foundation is awful, green eyeshadow is vulgar, eyebrows are hateful, dark lipstick is obsolete." What he favors, and has made fashionable, is makeup that shows yet seems effortless: healthy, glowing skin, light lipstick, and fascinating, fluttering eyes-"the only part really worth making...
...perfectly chosen faces leering ever so faintly from a 16th century fresco. Dressed and undressed in sumptuous Renaissance style, or hatching intrigues among the cobblestones of two ancient Umbrian villages where the action was filmed, they look comfortably removed to another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin, but Director Lattuada, with the slow and graceful style...
...judges awarded eight prizes-each more unpopular than the next. Several critics suggested that a ninth prize be awarded to the "worst judges in the history of the Cannes Film Festival." Others posted a petition denouncing the judges for "selecting the two most vulgar films, Alfie and Signore e Signori." Shrugged Judge Loren: "You can't please everybody." Agreed departing Judge Ustinov, relieved to be relieved of his assignment: "I am going to take a sabbatical and go back to being a crook...
...Palm for overpromotion: Alfie and Caroline Chérie. Alfie, the story of a cockney-of-the-walk starring Michael Caine (The Ipcress File), was advertised widely at the airport with signs that read ALFIE is ROCKING, ALFIE IS TERRIFIC, ALFIE IS THE MOST. "It really isn't vulgar, is it?" asked a French critic as he watched the signs walking. "After all, the print is very small." And so it was. In fact, when the models in tight stretch pants sat down, nobody could see their...