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...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...
Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Time of Desecration) and sometime film critic: "I did not like The Godfather. Too pessimistic. And Coppola's next film, Apocalypse Now, was even worse. Marlon Brando was a cross between Benito Mussolini and a big piece of cheese...
DIED. Pietro Nenni, 88, Italian Socialist who, with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance...
What caused Gilbert's error? That will take weeks to determine. But the cockpit crew seemed fatigued; Gilbert and his aides were late in doing their final checks as they approached the runway. In addition, Benito Juarez Airport is one of 250 with a redstar rating from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations, meaning that the airport is "severely deficient." The only worse rating is a black star for "critically deficient," which the IFALPA has given to 19 airports (the only one in the U.S. is Los Angeles International). Among the reasons for the Mexico City...
DIED. Rachele Mussolini, 89, shy, fiercely loyal widow of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini; of a heart attack; in Carpena di Forli, Italy. Rachele Guidi met Mussolini in 1906 while working in the kitchen at his father's inn. He threatened to commit suicide if she would not marry him, but they lived together five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels...