Word: mercouri
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...camera, with Phoebe catching their reflection on a piece of semi-reflectant tinted glass held in front of the camera lens. The lens was pointed towards the fireplace, so the embrace would be superimposed on the flames. Someone said this shot had been done before, in a Melina Mercouri picture...
...Melina Mercouri was so indignant she quivered. And when Melina quivers, strong men have been known to develop palpitations. They did more than that in Italy, where she was campaigning to rouse opinion against the dictatorship in Greece. In Genoa she gave such an incendiary speech ("Hurrah for Liberty! And for all those tortured by the colonels, those thousands locked up in concentration camps! Re-si-sten-za!") that crowds stoned the Greek consulate and battled police. Next she turned up in Turin, where extreme left-wingers used the occasion to pelt police with paving stones, overturn cars and generally...
...ADORE him," declares Melina Mercouri. "He knows how to cry." Says Angela Lansbury: "He has antennae most people haven't even heard of." Others are more to the point. "If I had an affair with Jack the Ripper," sighs Valley of the Dolls Novelist Jacqueline Susann, "the offspring would be Rex Reed...
...York Magazine. Now the assignments threaten to inundate him: last week a treatment of Jean Seberg in the Times; next month interviews with Jane Wyman, Katharine Ross, Harper's Bazaar Editor China Machado; a reminiscence on Carson McCullers (an old personal friend); a film for Melina Mercouri (a new personal friend); reviews and TV appearances; and, on the side, two novels abuilding. Thus it was only by dint of diligent spadework and interminable waiting that TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey cornered the famed interviewer for the following exchange à la mode...
...hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning-now -I'm-talking-to-Melina-Mercouri...