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...many as 99 years for a string of bombings, he escaped from the U.S. to Mexico in 1983, was captured in a gun battle and drew an eight-year jail term for killing a Mexican policeman. The U.S. had been dickering to get him back. But Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor proclaimed that Morales is a "political fighter for Puerto Rican independence" and so not subject to extradition. Morales was turned loose and fled to Cuba...
...time, more public buildings are being constructed in a modern flourish on the Old World style of Spain, with arched porticoes, wide, shady courtyards and bubbling fountains. "I like a building that has a lot of romance in it, that isn't so sterile," says Miami's trailblazing architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia, who grew up in Lima, Peru. "There are moments in a building that seem spontaneous, not so rational and functional. These are the intuitive moments that show the true feelings of the architect...
OMNIBUS (ABC, May 26, 10 p.m. EDT). Beverly Sills is host, and Bernardo Bertolucci and David Hockney are among the subjects of this "cultural excursion" based on the 1950s series...
...about the cultural imperialism of American movies. His film may have been snubbed by several Hollywood studios and mishandled by the company that finally distributed it. But hand him a gold-plated statuette in front of a billion people, and he finds heroic resources of good feeling. Just ask Bernardo Bertolucci. "It's incredible," the Italian filmmaker, 47, geysered the day after his The Last Emperor swept the Oscar ceremony. "First it was one award, then two, three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine! It went beyond the individuals who won. I realized it was the movie itself. The movie...
...Bernardo was always in love with Hollywood," notes Production Designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, who worked on Last Tango and Last Emperor. "But before, it was a love-hate relationship. Now it's a love-love thing." And now it's time for Hollywood's last moguls to love Bertolucci right back. Columbia might begin with a wider American release for the film and follow up the gesture by financing the director's dream project, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. Surely Bertolucci, among all recent Oscar winners, deserves to see that goldplate turned into box-office gold...