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...imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake, and is forced to eat the cooked carcass in an epicurean setting. His Chaplinesque resilience does not fail him. "Could I have a side order of mice?" he asks. An unexpectedly macabre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Roman Scamp | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Gregory Sandow had fine moments as an ominous Grand Inquisitor, a stony-faced lecher, and a jovial torturer. The rest of the gondoliers and contadine (gondoliers' playmates) danced and sang with polish unusual in a chorus...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Gondoliers | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Lemmon's lecher is hilarious-partly because Lemmon is a marvelously skillful comedian, partly because he looks like a boy scout playing Bluebeard. And his satyr is a satire: a Pan in deadpan, a caricature of every young goat who can't say naaaaa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Hits with Three Eros | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Frederick the Second-Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stupor Mundi | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mandarin & Mucker | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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