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P:Paris moviegoers were flocking to see Marty after critics raved that at last Hollywood was showing the fascinating spectacle of an authentic U.S. working-class milieu. But there were some dissenting opinions. Wrote the critic of the longhair Cahiers du Cinema: "In its attempt at neorealism, Marty reveals what daily life is like for the relatively prosperous working-class American . . . I was terrified. This 'American Way of Life' seemed like a foretaste of hell."

P:To celebrate the impending release of his movie, Sincerely Yours, Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace threw a party at his new San Fernando Valley home. Mamma Liberace supplied meat balls around a swimming pool built in the shape of a piano, and the host was served up in a black suit and gold tie studded with rhinestones. Asked by a guest how he got away with such sartorial splendor, Liberace replied: "It takes guts."

P:In the 22nd-anniversary issue of the influential trade sheet Variety, MGM's Dore Schary penned a long, freeverse tribute to "the trades." Sample:

You can't possibly know what's going on unless you read the trades-- the trades, the daily trades. What's new? What's cooking? It's all in the trades-- the trades.

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