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...Caro Diario is an amusing personal journal on film...
Then there's Nanni Moretti, who displays a more genial egotism. Though the Italian actor-writer-director is in every scene of Caro Diario (Dear Diary) -- an episodic film that is the equivalent of an artist's sketchbook -- his is a skeptical, almost modest form of auteur hubris...
...meticulously designed to serve the crammed and harried working classes of New York City, offering them the kind of ocean playground that until then had been open only to the rich. At a time when public beaches meant meager toilets in shabby wooden shacks, notes biographer Robert Caro, Moses sketched two enormous bathhouses a mile apart, with canopied terraces, vast swimming pools and even diaper-changing rooms. And in place of the barkers and hot-dog vendors of Coney Island, he decreed a serene, pristine boardwalk offering shuffleboard and paddle tennis, all at nominal prices -- no commerce allowed...
...time, writes Caro, designers and architects came from all over Europe to gaze at this wonder. An Englishman summed up their verdict: "The finest seashore playground ever given the public anywhere in the world...
...musclemen for Piat's political rivals. A probe of the local political milieu then resulted in charges of corruption against several officials. Last week police dropped murder charges against the original suspects and arrested Lucien Ferri, 22, who has confessed to firing the fatal shots, and Marco Di Caro, 21, who admitted driving the motorcycle. This opens a fresh investigation into the presumption that the masterminds of the slaying were not Piat's political opponents but drug dealers linked to the local Mafia. "If the police keep digging with what they've got," said a Hyeres cafe owner...