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...hostile takeover, since two Colombo factions are said to be on the brink of a major gangland war. When the Colombos aren't bickering, they're active in businesses ranging from loan- sharking to air freight and liquor distribution. Meanwhile in the Bonanno clan, reputed boss Joseph Massina, 48, is serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering. His brother-in-law is reportedly trying to keep alive the gang's main trade, nationwide drug trafficking, despite a supposed Mafia narcotics...
...police had been losing nearly all of their informers. It is removed that they had, intentionally set up the last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom he was-and is-madly in love. Paluzzi and company...
BRATTLE THEATER. One of Fellim's masterworks, La Strada--the progression towards Christian Charity of a cruxle weightlifter through his involvement with a mute waif and a wise clown. It is me peccably acted by the three stars Anthony Quinn. Giulietta Massina and Richard Basehart. The times are 5.35 and 9.35. Fellini is unfortunately paired with Frank Capra's predicable filming of a cornball play Arsenic and Old Lace screened at 7:30 with weekend matinee...
...symbol that relates back to the emotions or the unconscious of either of the two characters in the way that the horse walking down the street in La Strada or the barge in Juliet of the Spirits depended for their reality on the emotions and unconscious of Guilietta Massina. Fellini is giving us Rome unchannelled by the characters' perceptions of it. With such free-floating imagery and relatively undefined characters, the thematic line becomes less important than the lincar story line, since it is story-coincidences of time and space-rather than a theme which binds the whole thing together...
...talent Giulietta Massina evinced in La Strada--her ability to switch quickly among three or four strong and simple emotions--suits her perfectly for this role, in which she must switch only from outside prostitute to inside virgin. In the best sentimental Italian manner, director Federico Fellini selects the most poignant situations and evokes from his actress the response of wistfulness devastated, time and again...