Word: duilio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died after hardly a week of filming in 1974, at the age of 60. Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street) completed the movie, which, unfortunately, does little credit to anyone. My Friends concerns the infrequently amusing forays of a group of five stalwarts (Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moshin, Duilio Del Prete, Adolfo Celi) who break out of their conventional, half-failing lives to have a little fun. This usually involves playing practical jokes-such as slapping in sequence the faces of passengers leaning out the windows of a departing train-and acting in general like sailors on their first...
...career that has become lost in synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns the romances of two couples-Burt Reynolds and, inevitably, Cybill Shepherd; Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete -as they sing and dance through some smoggy dream of the '30s. The couples do not sing very well, though, and in dancing resemble a troop of hikers trying to extinguish a campfire...
...Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...
Predictably, Italian critics did not spare their barbs at the once tempestuous diva. "A boring and costly family party" was how one described the first-night folderol. Critic Duilio Courir tartly suggested that I Vespri Siciliani, as one of Verdi's most complex works, was "surely not advisable for beginners...