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...script by Anthony Burgess and top Italian filmwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico ("Open City," "The Bicycle Thief," "Big Deal on Madonna Street," "The Leopard") makes clear the legal grounds for killing Jesus. Under Mosaic law, blasphemy ("I'm Yahweh") is a capital crime; under Roman law, calling yourself King of the Jews is treason. The writers' touch is especially careful and coherent in the trial scene. The Sanhedrin is no lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace...
...Ecstasy (Michelangelo). Irving Stone's old blockbusters were the testosterone-laden version of art history. The central voice now is more likely to be a woman's. In Sarah Dunant's agile new novel, The Birth of Venus (Random House; 394 pages), the fictional narrator is Alessandra Cecchi, 14, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in the Florence of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Alessandra yearns to live with a brush in her hand. For that matter, she would be happy just to get out of the house. But it's the 1490s, so her best hope is an agreeable arranged...
...biting in what once was Europe's richest football league. Having spent years paying players hugely inflated salaries from TV money, Italy's top 18 clubs last year declared an operating loss of $764 million. Already this year Serie A club Fiorentina has been declared bankrupt, after owner Vittorio Cecchi Gori failed to meet deadlines on debts of $22 million; Fiorentina was demoted to Serie C2. Even top-flight teams are struggling. Rome's Lazio, the 2000 champion, had bids for three new players annulled after admitting it couldn't pay even 30% of the transfer fees. League president Adriano...
...INNOCENT Directed by Luchino Visconti Screenplay by Susi Cecchi D'Amico, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti...
Directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI Screenplay by SUSO CECCHI D'AMICO, ENRICO MEDIOLO and LUCHINO VISCONTI