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...other hand, as played by Gian Maria Volonte (gratefully remembered as the title character in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), Mattei himself emerges as a fascinating enigma-proud, driven, a masterful manipulator. His sheer energy-and his peculiar sense of realism, which appears to have been a blend of cynicism and idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role...
...pays the doctor? Such was the damage to the Colosseum and the nearby Forum in last month's swamping rains that Gian Filippo Carettoni, Rome's superintendent of antiquities, estimates cost of the immediate restoration of the Colosseum at $430,000 and, of the crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped...
Among the best-known candidates will be Film Actor Gian Maria Volonte, star of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and Concetto Lo Bello. Italy's most famous soccer referee. For militant leftists, there is Anarchist Pietro Valpreda, 39, a professional dancer by trade, who is charged with having killed 16 people and wounded 90 by planting a bomb two years ago in Milan's Agricultural Bank. Militant rightists can turn to Pino Rauti, 46, a neo-Fascist newsman who is accused of exploding 24 bombs at various places in 1969, including eight aboard trains on the Milan...
...attempts to save these men gave moral impetus to the American Left, and they still exert a powerful undertow in Sacco and Vanzetti, an Italian film. Sacco, a fishmonger, and Vanzetti, a shoemaker, have always been simultaneously visible and obscure, martyrs but not men. As played by Gian Maria Volonte and Riccardo Cucciolla, they are credible and pathetic-good, bewildered souls whom history has scorched by its proximity. As they watch themselves railroaded to the electric chair, they shout in anger, then grow numb, and finally reach a plane of philosophy that forgives their executioners and redeems their adopted country...
Since Composer Gian Carlo Menotti launched his Spoleto Festival 14 years ago, Spoletini have enjoyed raking in the profits. Menotti began to worry that they were missing the cultural meaning of it all, so he held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household...