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...seemed a mad gamble: a $12 million epic about an eccentric English adventurer on the fringe of World War I, set in the sere deserts of the Middle East. It was hell to shoot: 18 months in the singeing sun of Jordan, Morocco and Spain. It had an obscure actor in the title role and no speaking parts for women. When it opened in New York City during the 1962 newspaper strike, one of the film's few reviewers, Andrew Sarris, called it "dull, overlong and coldly impersonal . . . hatefully calculating and condescending...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro Almodovar...
...State expects 3,500 new AIDS cases among addicts this year, vs. 2,700 among gays. In New Jersey 59% of those who developed the disease last year were intravenous drug abusers. Overseas the story is the same: addicts account for about 65% of the new AIDS victims in Spain and 67% in Italy...
Some 70% of the 7,136 U.S. women known to have AIDS are black or Hispanic, as are 75% of the 1,341 children who suffer from the disease. In Spain most of the 80 or so children with AIDS were born to mothers with heroin addictions. Observes Professor Delgado Rubio, the head of a center for pediatric AIDS in Spain's Basque country: "It is particularly cruel that children are brought into this world already infected with an illness from which their parents could have saved them." In Africa 200,000 children carry the virus, and most will...
CINEMA: A sexy comedy spotlights Spain's hot director...