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After that display of unintentional deception, it was anyone's guess what he'd say about the Stadium as the tour drew to a close. But Phil did pretty well. "That horseshoe is Harvard Stadium," he told us. "It's often referred to as the Harvard Colosseum because it does resemble the Colosseum in Rome a little. It seats 39,000 people...
...circus was worth $8,000,000, and Feld bought it, with financing from his brother Israel and Houston Astrodome Builder Roy Hofheinz. The deal, in a publicity stunt worthy of Barnum, was ceremoniously sealed in the center of the Roman Colosseum...
...Colosseum." In fact, he devotes a total of only 56 lines to the scenic attractions of Rome, v. 68 to those of Sardinia, and the introduction to his chapter on Italy reads: "In Spain the traveler finds a bullfight, in Denmark he stuffs himself in Tivoli Gardens, in Switzerland he buys a watch, and in Italy he goes to the opera. Allowing for seasonal factors, it's as simple as that." His wide-eyed, hoked-up style and notions about what tourists want to do with their time abroad would probably make Baedeker turn over in his catacomb...
Idea Gambler. Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray...
EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A subway passing ancient Roman ruins, a hippie wedding on an abandoned movie set, sinister characters at the Colosseum at night seem standard elements for a Federico Fellini movie. This time, though, it's "Fellini: A Director's Notebook," the maestro's first attempt at TV. Fellini not only directs but is the subject, aided by his actress-wife Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni...