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...Word. A middle-sized man behind heavy black glasses, Dino de Laurentiis, 42, is an unlikely figure for the duce of Italian cinema. At 16 he won a scholarship at a motion picture school, ducked out of his family's prosperous spaghetti-making business, and came to Rome. With Dino's success, the whole family has since abandoned spaghetti for films. De Laurentiis served a lighthearted war, demobilized himself as soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame...
...What do you think of the Duce...
...knew best. Said he: "I would be a Fascist now or at any time in the past. Though I was brought up in a particular environment, I'm a Fascist in logic and conviction as well as in sentiment." He thinks that Italians were lots jollier under the Duce than they are under democracy: "Even with two or three cars, Italians are dissatisfied today. Morale is low. In the past they had nothing, but they were happier...
...inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar...
Married. Anna Maria Mussolini. 30, the late Duce's fifth and youngest child, a $192-per-month pensioner who has been partially crippled from polio since childhood; and Giuseppe Negri, 24, nightclub M.C.; in Ravenna, Italy...