Word: salutation
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...Salut L'Artiste...
...SALUT I'ARTISTE...
Sort of funny, kind of sad, Salut I'Artiste is a halfway exercise in depicting the addled, smoothly desperate life of an actor named Nicholas. His face, in passing, is familiar, but ask for his autograph and the name will not register. Nicholas makes his living doing day work in movies, character bits in commercials and specialty acts at small clubs. It is a hard scuffle, but Nicholas dotes on the comfortable insecurity of the life. At least it offers a neat opportunity to fend off deeper involvement with his mistress Peggy (Françoise Fabian) and keeps...
Bemused Talents. Besides the quite ravishing Miss Fabian, the movie can boast the presence of Marcello Mastroianni as Nicholas. He is not seen in major movies as widely as he used to be, so Salut I'Artiste is, if nothing else, a wholly welcome reminder of just how extraordinary an actor he can be. It would seem folly to cast Mastroianni as a nonentity were it not for his wonderfully bemused talents for self-effacement. Many of his best performances (8½, say, or The Organizer) have challenged and contradicted the popular notion of him as a kind...
Other cheeses that wear a protective coating of B. linens are Harz, Muenster, Port du Salut and Tilsiter. Liederkranz is the most heavily protected of all. Whether Dr. Grecz's unnamed antibiotic can ever be used in human patients is doubtful, though Eli Lilly & Co. is trying to extract enough to test it in animals. Its main use is likely to be in the processing of cheeses and other foods...