The 20th annual film festival in Venice opened with all the bang of a wet firecracker. The movies themselves were such drabs that even critics from the Communist press panned the Communist entries. Worse yet, bikinis were bigger, scandals were smaller, and most of the stars stayed away. Desperate news photographers finally invaded Elsa Maxwell's beach cabana in the forlorn hope of finding someone to shoot. But Elsa turned back the attack with a barrage of pillows and a trumpeted battle cry: "Away! Away, dogs!''...
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