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Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show; What's Up, Doc?) was in Rome, prowling round the Colosseum to do the night shots for his film version of Henry James' classic love story Daisy Miller. As for the lead, she was Bogdanovich's girl friend, Actress-Cover Girl Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich is already giving the author of the novel most of the credit for the movie. "Daisy Miller picked me," he explained. "I thought that if Henry James had gone to all the trouble to write a good part for Cybill, I should shoot...
Strange things have a way of happening when rival teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
Wrong. The lowly, thrice-beaten Missourians not only met the unbeaten Irish on Notre Dame's home turf, a prospect about as promising as the Christians' venturing into the Colosseum, but pulled off a startling 30-26 upset. That same weekend mighty Oklahoma, the nation's No. 2-ranked team behind the high-scoring Trojans of Southern Cal, was put out of contention by a barefooted Chilean placekicker named Fred Lima, who booted two field goals for Colorado in the final period to down the Sooners 20-14. It's been that kind of season...
...danger is falling masonry. Since March, more than 30 pieces of stone -most weighing around 40 Ibs.-have tumbled, dislodged by weed roots or weakened by the vibrations from the 200,000 vehicles that thunder round the Colosseum each day and the subway trains that pass under its foundations at ten-minute intervals. "The Colosseum is not falling down," insisted one custodian last week. "It's just an old, old man who needs medical treatment...
...pays the doctor? Such was the damage to the Colosseum and the nearby Forum in last month's swamping rains that Gian Filippo Carettoni, Rome's superintendent of antiquities, estimates cost of the immediate restoration of the Colosseum at $430,000 and, of the crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped...