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Luigi Pirandello died 50 years ago this December, but his influence is still palpable in Italian cinema. Recently Marcello Mastroianni has starred in two adaptations, of the novel The Late Mattia Pascal and the play Henry IV. Both movies offer aspects of the basic Pirandello theme, in which the universe is a carrousel whirling off its moral axis, and man's ego is a mask that conceals a gaping void. In their entrancing new film, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have revived a less familiar Pirandello: the compulsive storyteller, spinning tales about his native Sicily, its stern landscape and elemental passions...
...silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting new mothers and divorcees. The workout classes have become a combination gossip fence, networking center, self-help group, junior high locker room and place to affirm grownup community values. "There's no place like it," says JoAnn Mattia, 32, a physical- education teacher who gets to four or five hour-long classes each week. "Everybody talks about what videos to rent and which stores have the best sales. I've made new friends here...
...some, the sharing has fostered deeper relationships. The class has nurtured regulars through pregnancy, divorce and surgery. Says Kluger: "If someone says, 'Hey, I'm getting married next month,' people start asking 'Have you bought your dress yet?' An emotion can coalesce around that kind of thing." When Mattia announced she was getting married, a couple of the regulars threw a swinging bachelorette party at Chippendale's, the male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures...
...From Caravaggio to Giordano" is a smaller, edited version of the exhibition that was seen in 1982 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It contains many loans of the first importance, from Caravaggio's altarpiece of The Seven Acts of Mercy to groups of work by Mattia Preti and Jusepe de Ribera, along with many remarkable paintings by lesser-known artists...
Cast in the leading role of Remi Barbarin, the young Robert Lyneu gives only a mildly convincing performance. Chief honors in our opinion, are due to Vitalis, Remi's chief benefactor, and to Mattia, his companion in misfortune, who lends considerable colour and interest to the later part of the story...