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...with him during the filming of his latest, The Adventurers, everything was new and wonderful. "My kids are crazy about Italian spaghetti and ponies," said Ernie. "I always have to ask the pony man where he'll be or the kids get mad." All that, plus the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Villa Borghese have kept Papa hopping. For his taste, a movie star spends too much time away from home. When he was asked if the two imps, each armed with the familiar Borgnine face, might end up actors, Ernie could only sigh: "I hope...
Flamboyant Showman Roy Hofheinz already has his own personal steel and Lucite colosseum-the $38 million Houston Astrodome. But he figured that the old Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could...
...size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site of the U.S.'s biggest trade shows. McCormick Place cost Chicago $35 million to build, and one boast was that it would be "more durable than the Colosseum...
Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, meanwhile, had another big, related problem. One of the mayor's first postfire acts was to appoint a panel to determine why a six-year-old exhibition hall that had been built to outlast the Colosseum had no sprinkler systems or fire walls, and had burned down. Wondering also were such insurance companies as Travelers, Continental, and Interstate Fire & Casualty, who had written $29,650,000 worth of insurance on McCormick Place on the say-so of their own inspectors, who estimated its maximum probable fire loss at less than...
...views on the West are variable. In Colosseum, he indulges in a prudish flight of fancy; as the poet broods on the ancient games, he also rather absurdly sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged...