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...presidential candidate. Although many right-wing Christian Democrats were disappointed by the outcome, few had any personal quarrel with Pertini. A native of Savona, on the Italian Riviera, he was imprisoned several times between 1925 and the end of World War II for his underground resistance work-first against Mussolini's fascist regime, later against the Nazis. He was co-founder of the postwar Socialist Party and has been a member of Parliament since 1946. Pertini does have one striking advantage at this particular time: in his long parliamentary career, there has never been a hint of scandal...
...Florence Nightingale, and George is purer than the infancy of truth and madder than his true love (Julia Duffy). Through simple unpollutable honesty, George becomes chief of staff to a manic-depressive studio mogul, Herman Glogauer. George S. Irving plays this role as if he were a Yiddish Mussolini...
...ODESSA, the secret international organization of ex-Nazis who were eager to channel their war loot into venture capital. The reputed leader of ODESSA was Otto Skorzeny, famous as the Waffen SS officer in charge of the 1943 raid on an Apennine ski resort that freed the deposed Mussolini from his captors. Skorzeny died of cancer...
...story "spanning three decades in the growth of the American labor movement" should seemingly have intrinsic appeal. You have to forgive the fact that, early on, the movie simply becomes a vehicle for the trotting-out of Sylvester Stallone in his first post-Rocky role (apart from his Mussolini imitation at the Academy Awards). Here, Stallone, cast as the street-tough union organizer for the so-called "Federation of Interstate Truckers," hardly throws a single punch during the entire proceedings (all right, so he does bludgeon someone to death with an axe handle at the beginning of the movie). Instead...
...foreign Jew at that?was living under a Fascist regime which grew more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his diploma, awarded in the name of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, King of Albania and (thanks to Mussolini and his bombers) Emperor of Ethiopia, was written "Steinberg Saul... di razza Ebraica "(of the Jewish race). "It was some kind of safeguard for the future, meaning that although I was a dottore I could be boycotted from practicing, since I am a Jew. The beauty for me is that this...