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...jellyfish in the photos didn't look like they'd pose a danger to swimmers. Thinly veined and translucent, they didn't have stinging tentacles trailing behind them or dramatic colors signaling danger. But Ferdinando Boero, a professor of zoology at the University of Salento in Italy, knew that they meant trouble nonetheless...
...wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...
Still, says Senator Ferdinando Imposimato, a former magistrate who handled many a Mafia case, the Mob can be defeated "by isolating the Mafiosi as the ((Red Brigades)) terrorists were isolated and fought by a unified country." Not to forget international cooperation: roundups like last week's on both sides of the Atlantic could be a small but useful beginning in the struggle...
...Bernardo was always in love with Hollywood," notes Production Designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, who worked on Last Tango and Last Emperor. "But before, it was a love-hate relationship. Now it's a love-love thing." And now it's time for Hollywood's last moguls to love Bertolucci right back. Columbia might begin with a wider American release for the film and follow up the gesture by financing the director's dream project, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. Surely Bertolucci, among all recent Oscar winners, deserves to see that goldplate turned into box-office gold...
...There is a sense of relief at the idea that a dialogue has started again," said Ferdinando Nelli-Feroci, counselor at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "But notes of caution are to be drawn," he added...