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In a winter rain, Italy's Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani picked up a workman's trowel and mortared the cornerstone. The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water. Yet all the fanfare was not for some vast new public utility. It was for...
A one-man heavy industry, De Laurentiis has been pampered by the government with tax concessions and subsidies. His new studios have four immense sound stages, three of which can be combined, by sliding steel doors, into a giant indoor county, complete with pocket oceans for underwater scenes. A sort...
Adam & Ekberg.. "In a certain sense, the Bible is already a screenplay," says De Laurentiis, who has hired British Playwright Christopher Fry to help him prove it. Unnecessary parts-"the Psalms, for example"-may be cut. But Noah and Jonah will voyage, the Red Sea will part, and Moses...
Dino de Laurentiis smiles indulgently at such Hollywood efforts as George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (scheduled for production this spring and summer), which will run a scant three hours. The Bible, which will go before the cameras next year, will be shown to audiences in three segments...
With a tradesy eye on his congregation, Dino is going to make the film in English, dubbing it in Italian. Who will the actors be? "Everybody," says Dino. It is easy to imagine Van Johnson munching an apple offered him by Anita Ekberg, Frank Sinatra slinging stones at Jackie Gleason...