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...America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Varda's hero is a handsome young carpenter named François, an easygoing embodiment of the masculine principle, feelingly played by Actor Jean-Claude Drouot, whose real-life wife Claire and their two children portray his family on film. François defines happiness as "submitting to the order of nature," and his life unfolds as a midsummer day's dream of simple pleasures: work, lovemaking, raising the children, traipsing off to the woods for a family picnic. These sequences have the honey warmth and texture of old snapshots or souvenirs collected on a holiday...
...name or picture is used "for the purposes of trade." Originally aimed at unscrupulous advertising, that law may conceivably conflict with freedom of the press as guaranteed by the First Amendment. As a result, New York courts have long construed the law as permitting the press truthfully to portray anyone without his consent as long as he is involved in news of public interest...
...Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
Made on location in Kenya, Born Free glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves. Two portray Elsa as a young adult, their identities smoothly meshed in the part, while 17 others maul major and minor roles, tearing down clotheslines, chewing seat cushions or carcasses, chasing elephants, or scaring the district commissioner (Geoffrey Keen) into fits of quietly civilized panic. The Adamsons are played by a British husband-and-wife team, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, who perform with a conviction that nearly matches their courage among lions. The result...