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...father, mother and sister are engineers, and in an effort to hold his own in such a professional household he trained for medicine and then switched to law. He practiced law desultorily, but much preferred to haunt the artists' cafés of Milan. In one of them, while sitting on a barrel with his feet in a basin of white wine, Baj (pronounced buy) met a painter named Sergio Dangelo. He dropped the law, took up art full time, and joined Dangelo in forming something called the "Nuclear Movement" in painting...
...times again. He paid his own respects to the times by putting together The Night Club Era, a book that sorrowed over the boozy glamour of "the good old days" in New York, and Mrs. Astor's Horse, a hard-eyed appreciation of the city's café society...
...belong to West Germany's top movie stars, including Curt Jürgens and Caterina Valente. After Nadja Tiller settled into a handsome hillside villa in Ticino, Actress Romy Schneider picked up a palatial lakeside chateau; not to be outdone, Romy's father bought a local café, installed a bevy of blonde waitresses and operated it for a while as a "Viennese dance hall...
...bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after number one," wrote Orwell...
...working, he potters around the old villa he recently bought on the outskirts of Rome. It contains part of the ruins of the old Appian Way, and Marcello has discovered a new interest in archaeology as he sets about restoring the crumbling house. He scorns the cafés of the Via Veneto. He has kept his family completely out of his working life, allows no publicity shots, no interviews. He is known as a fine father, husband...