Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold as sculptured ice, Ingrid Bergman faced Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...
That was before bald, chubby Roberto Rossellini came sprinting into town to turn the festival into a sorely needed personal triumph. His new picture, 77 Generale della Rovere, had been put together in just 33 days of shooting. Director Rossellini himself had seen the finished film only one day before the festival deadline; there was not even time for careful editing. But with money and time running out, Rossellini, whose reputation had been sliding downhill even before he ditched Ingrid Bergman for India's sloe-eyed Sonali Das Gupta, was forced to gamble on an unfinished draft. Despite the long...
...LIFE OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA (325 pp.)-Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson-Knopf...
Dame Margot Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed...
...Foreign Minister Roberto Agra-monte: "You are not a revolutionary minister...