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...rendezvous in Paris with Wife Sybil. As the tasteless, tedious charade wore on, even some of the professional sensation seekers of the press began to feel sated. Rome's Lo Spècchio yawned, "Basta cón Liz (Enough of Liz),"and Milan's earnest Corriere della Sera austerely vowed to "try not to publish anything concerning the infernal Elizabeth for 24 hours.'' But with some $20 million already sunk in the seemingly bottomless Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox had scant choice but to try to make a virtue of the peccadilloes of its irreplaceable star...
...downs, but even in the modern age of science, millions of otherwise rational people believe that the motions of the planets have profound control over human affairs. So many people try to read the future from the stars that even the Vatican weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, was moved to warn that serious belief in astrology is a "grave sin." The astrological faithful attach special importance to conjunctions,* which bring two or more planets close together. On the rare occasions when all seven huddle close, astrologers believe (or say they believe) that the end of the world is near...
EACH opening night during the opera season, Milan's Via Manzoni is transformed from a bustling commercial street to a river of wealth and elegance. Bumper to bumper, a seemingly endless line of Mercedes, Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Maseratis inches toward the Piazza della Scala, their high-powered engines being raced by traffic-frustrated drivers. Pulling up before La Scala's neoclassic facade, the cars discharge their cargoes-usually an Italian businessman, resplendent in white tie, and his bejeweled wife, dressed in a Fontana, Capucci or Dior...
...Milan's Corriere della Sera: "Nehru...
Then, having promised a study of America "as Americans," the magazine feels obligated to turn an ordinary review of a foreign film into an article grandly entitled "The human condition and the film of Europe and America." Actually, Alan Casty's outline of General Della Rovere is an accurate synopsis of the plot and theme of Rossellini's movie. But Casty slights the director's real masterpieces, Paisan and Open City, adding: "it has only been with. . .General Della Rovere that he has produced a film of real stature, a film whose symbols of all our world are not overt...