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...role of state subsidies, putting more responsibility into the hands of private financiers. In the '60s and '70s, Italy was turning out some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the century: think Bertolucci (whose latest, The Dreamers, is circling the world, in part through America's Fox Searchlight), Fellini and Visconti. The state - which has had a strong hand in the film industry since the Fascist era - started offering up as much as 90% of a film's budget. The result: coddled directors pumping out obscure pictures few wanted to watch. "The auteur made films for himself, maybe for some...
...only pleasurable jolt in this revival of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's 1982 musical, based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Sure, there's film star Antonio Banderas making his Broadway debut as the director, and Chita Rivera, in a supporting role, drawing the obligatory cheers for still being able to lift her leg onto his shoulder at age 70. But the show prompts the same question it did 20 years ago: Why turn a movie with one of the greatest film scores ever written (by Nino Rota) into a Broadway musical with mediocre songs...
...voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...riding on giant, flying bugs. Shot down by a sleazy-looking cupid, she falls for a man with the head of a jackass. (Caveat emptor: pages 26 and 27 have been transposed in the printing, a fact you take for granted given topsy turvy nature of this work.) The Fellini-esque fantasy of a woman in the food court whose reality creates disturbing parallels in her dream world, "Eros" has a funny-sad sensibility that typifies these stories...
...books, music, movies and video games, AMAZON.COM always leaps to mind. But there are alternatives. DVDPLANET.COM stocks 3.5 million movies at cut-rate prices (Sexy Beast on DVD, for example, was $2 less than at Amazon). You'll also find the Criterion Collection of films by Fellini, Hitchcock and others. For music, visit DUSTYGROOVE.COM, a site fanatically devoted to soul, funk and jazz with a big Brazilian selection too. Got gamers on your list? EBGAMES.COM neatly organizes its vast inventory by platform (PC, X box, Game Boy, GameCube, PlayStation2) and has hundreds of pre-owned games for older systems like...