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...Kinski) is the Indians name for Brian Sweency Fazgerald, a half-crazed, half-Irish failed enterpreneur who is driven by an extraordinary obsession with opera. He hits upon the grand scheme of building an aperu house in the middle of the Peruviam Amazon jungle--a shrine to his god Caruso. To finance his brainechild, Fitzearruldo attempts to claims a large expanse of unexplored territory and cash in on the huge rubber free crop. In order to reach the area, however, he must unvigute up one river and cross over a ridge of land to another river--drugging one large steamship...
...subtitles drain their stock of capital letters. "I want my opera house!" he screams, staggering around the church beltry that overlooks the squalid shantytown where he proposes to build it. Long before the film is over, this sort of rhetoric sounds as tinny, hollow, and mechanical as the old Caruso 78s that constantly blare out of Fitzcarraldo's favorite icon, his gramophone...
...aliases (the lovers travelled under the names Mr. and Mrs. Cambridge) and aborted assignations (Koo was apparently smuggled off the Island early because of the uproar) there is one Rose of optimism--from Koo's mother, interviewed by the London Daily Express last week, the 62-year-old Mrs. Caruso defended the prince and her daughter. Andrew behind "like a prince in every sense of the word," she said. "I should know what went on. I was there the entire time." It just hasn't been a great year for the monarchy...
...Caruso's first appearance before the High Court and though he said that he did not have the opportunity to make all the points that he wanted to, he remained optimistic. "I think we're going to win," Caruso said, adding, "I always thought we were going...
...could be struck down if the Court rules specifically against the Massachusetts statute. If the Court holds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment, however, similar laws prohibiting the sale of liquor in the vicinity of churches in 21 other states could be changed or eliminated, Caruso said last week...