Word: santoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arkin used the whole man to embody adolescent chutzpah; Newcomer Reni Santoni seems able to draw on only a pout here and a wiggled eyebrow there, which is far from enough. Shelley Winters and David Opatoshu contribute a pair of luridly overdrawn caricatures as the well-meaning parents who stand by helplessly while their son switches his ambitions from pharmacy to footlights. By contrast, Jose Ferrer and Elaine May seem almost drawn from life as the flamboyant impresario of a pass-the-hat theatrical workshop and his daffy Duse of a daughter. Their world of raucous flea-bitten theatrics seems...
...satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family friend-certain that his personal charm would carry the day. The editor came to the Fanfani apartment atop Rome's Monte Mario hill, expecting the Saint to talk about "saints and santoni [sarcastically, big saints]. Instead, he started talking about politics...