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...blocks from Durgin Park (on Haymarket Square) is Mondo's, a sober truck stop with a great juke. Tucked inconspicuously between two blackened buildings, it's relatively simple, except for its one charmingly vulgar extravagance. On the most prominent wall hangs an immense oil painting of a nude with crimson lipstick, enormous entrees, and a torso elongated beyond the elasticity of the human anatomy. The obvious, but affable errors in the painting speak well for Mondo's as a restaurant. It gets away with a great deal because it's a truck stop and people there wear white socks...
Rome. Piccolo Mondo, two blocks from the Via Veneto, at 39 Via Aurora. A favorite hangout of movie people, so it is tops for that great American game of celebrity watching. A typical luncheon might consist of bucatini alia a matriciana (tubes of pasta in a sauce of tomatoes and bacon), trout au gratin, and a dessert of torta St. Honore. With house wine, service and cover, the bill will come...
Censorship is so repugnant to most moviemakers they would rather have Mondo Freudo shown in a kindergarten than let a censor bowdlerize Ulysses. On the other hand, many parents would sooner burn a theater than let their children watch the crudity visible in all too many "adult films...
Revolution is supposed to be a serious picture, but the "recommended for adults only" label gives it away. A Mondo movie, no matter what it is called, is still a Mondo movie...
...limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies. Among some aficionados of the nudies, the subcategories are known as "roughies" (breasts and violence), "ghoulies" (breasts and monsters), "kinkies" (breasts and whips) and, inspired by the 1963 documentary Mondo Cane, "mondos" (breasts around the world...