Word: annas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Composer-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti had never directed a straight play before, but this was one challenge he could not resist. It was the first Ital ian production of Jean Anouilh's Medea, with volcanic Film Actress Anna Magnani (Open City, The Rose Tattoo) in the title role. Menotti realized all along, though, that working with Magnani is "like working with fire. It might burn down the whole house if you let it go, but if you put water on it, the fire might go out. You must keep the fire burning without destroying the theater...
...around deadpan. If you weep when your wife dies or say words like "Why" or "Conscience," you get shot. There is this Big Brother named Professor Von Braun (can't miss that) who runs the computer. And Von Braun's picture is everywhere. The Von Braun's daughter Natasha (Anna Karina), will say to Caution, "Love? What is love...
...Born. To Anna Maria Alberghetti, 30, onetime opera singer (The Medium) turned musical-comedy star (Carnival), and Claudio Guzman, 39, Chilean-born TV director (I Dream of Jeannie, Love on a Rooftop); their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles...
...most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...excellent Godard films shown, "Masculine Feminine," a violent and genuinely witty film about young people in Paris, was most popular, and "Pierrot Le Fou" was the best -- one of Godard's greatest achievements. On the surface, "Pierrot Le Fou," the 1965 film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, is a color and cinema-scope re-make of "The Maltese Falcon." But thematically, Godard's film is much blacker and more terrifying than its melodramatic plot line would imply...