Actresses: Deadly Queen

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When parents tell their children about the birds and the bees, they leave out the information that the male bee always dies after making love. This is surely a touchstone metaphor for at least a part of mankind. Yet until now, it has not been put across with wide-angle clarity. It has remained for the

Italian cinema to do so in a new movie called Queen Beea title that loses a little something in translation from the Italian, Ape Regina.

As I Lay Dying. Her hiveness, the heroine of the film, is a blonde humdinger named Marina Vlady, whose performance won her a golden palm at this year's Cannes Festival even though her lines were dubbed in by someone else. Words were unimportant. As the young bride of a fellow twice her age, she spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone one poor drone.