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...well into this fascinating movie - about a crafty old tailor and money lender named Geremia (Giacomo Rizzo - before we realize that the old woman is the aged mother Geremia dutifully cares for, the young woman is a Romanian refugee whom a matchmaker tries fruitlessly to fix up with Geremia, and the volleyball girls are his one erotic release in an otherwise mean existence...
Imagine that a new work by Giacomo Puccini had been discovered. Opera houses the world over would fight for the rights to the first performance. The best singers would scramble to create the roles. Audiences would line up eagerly. It would be a sensation...
...Odds for Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, the race's biggest upset since 1913 $864,253.50 Value of a winning Kentucky Derby betting slip lost by a punter from Phoenix, Arizona. It was later found crumpled on the floor and returned...
...GIACOMO, 3, a gray son of Holy Bull and a 50-to-1 long shot; the 131st Kentucky Derby; in Louisville, Ky. The colt, named by its record-producer owner after Sting's 9-year-old son, had finished first in just one race before last Saturday, when he became the horse with the second worst odds ever to win the Derby, trailing only Donerail's 91-to-1 feat...
...Nigeria, where Christianity and Islam come into contentious conflict. But his long service in the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia ("He's more Curial than African" goes a typical comment), and his recent transfer to another department have dimmed his prospects. Some electors may side with Bologna's former ARCHBISHOP GIACOMO CARDINAL BIFFI, who has suggested that non-Catholic immigration to Italy should be limited. But theirs will be a minority view. Says Comunità di Sant'-Egidio's Riccardi: "The man chosen by the Cardinals can't be a Pope of the clash of civilizations." The most common posture in conclave...