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...OFTEN IS FILMMAKING A matter of life and death? It was just that for Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than...
...company didn't use burger-chain tie-ins or Massimo Troisi dolls to merchandise the picture, but it did sell 30,000 copies of the 1985 Antonio Skarmeta novel on which the film is based, and another 25,000 books of Neruda poetry. A CD of stars like Sting, Madonna and Wesley Snipes reading Neruda was later sent to Academy members with a videocassette of the film, as was a note telling them that Il Postino was ineligible for the foreign-language Oscar because the Italians had not offered it for nomination. If Academy voters wanted to honor the film...
...down doors. Vogosca is only the first of Sarajevo's five Serb districts to be transferred to Muslim-Croat hands, but the Serb reaction there is likely to be the same. The exodus points up some potentially serious flaws in the Dayton peace agreement, says Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The Dayton agreement is made up of two contradictory halves. The military part divides the country and the civilian part tries to reconstruct and reunify it. The problem is that Dayton's civilian measures are not strong enough to unify and maintain Bosnia. It is not clear, however, what...
...Kevin Fedarko. Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Sarajevo and Mark Thompson/Washington
SARAJEVO: Human rights investigators have received a green light to begin excavating sites of suspected mass graves as early as Friday, according to United Nations officials in Sarajevo. "It's a good sign that the United Nations is serious about looking for evidence," says TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "But this is less significant than if they were to go somewhere controlled by the Serbs, who, by all accounts except their own, have committed most of the atrocities during the war." Manfred Novak, a U.N. investigator, will supervise digging at three sites near the central Bosnian town of Jajce, now controlled...