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...cigarette, "the play is a satire. Anyone who understands a satirist's mind knows that he is someone who is deeply disappointed and takes his revenge in poking fun at the objects of his disillusionment." Mrs. Luce's disillusionment was with her pre-Women life in the café society of the 1920s and 1930s where rich women with nothing better to do turned on themselves. "It was a life I did not like," she says firmly, underlining every word. "The expectation of my youth was that women were on the road to liberation. But I discovered that...
Revolution's single most memorable scene-the young protagonist dancing with his aunt, with whom he is having an affair-has turned up, with appropriate variations, in every subsequent Bertolucci film. One of The Conformist's most elaborate set pieces was the late-night Paris café, where all the customers got up to dance, spontaneously crowding the floor; Tango's lingering and desperate ballroom interlude gives the film its title. Bertolucci is smitten by dancing the way Hitchcock is obsessed by staircases. Each motif gives the director occasion to employ the best elements of his visual...
...woman who has been scandalizing Vienna." They marry, and Mother's resistance is quieted when she learns that Jetty is not a common gulden-digger after all. There is some nastiness about Jetty's illegitimate son and Johann's trifling with coarse café singers. All comes right at the end, however, to the strains of The Blue Danube and the assurance of a subtitle that "the house of Strauss lives on." A rather dubious prophecy on the basis of this film...
...many Paraguayans, Auguste Joseph Ricord, a short, balding French Corsican with an avuncular manner, was merely the proprietor of the Paris-Nice motel and café near Paraguay's somnolent capital city of Asuncion. To various international law-enforcement agencies, however, Ricord was much better known as the owner of a string of aliases (Mr. André, Lucien Darguelles, "El Comandante") and a police record that includes a bust for theft in prewar Marseille, a 1950 French conviction as a "dangerous" wartime Gestapo agent, and links in more recent years with prostitution in Argentina and Venezuela. Not long...
...Boston, Dayton, New York City, Sacramento, Calif., and Sioux City, Iowa. The commercials feature a tall, lean cowboy who looks like a refugee from Marlboro country. He pops out of nowhere and steals another man's girl at the beach, on a lonely road or at a sidewalk café. Each time, the silent, saturnine cowboy offers the girl a Winchester; the two take a few puffs, exchange febrile glances and go off together as the announcer chants: "Ain't no cigarette. Ain't just another little cigar. It's a whole 'nother smoke...