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...Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not just their poly urethane clouds and disco chambers; it is their hilarious innocence, their religious concentration on themselves. What's more, they rarely know how entertaining they are. Nero, for example, when he entered his Golden House with its statue of him self, 120 feet high, and its private lake, observed: "At last I am beginning to live like a human being." Who but a real trouper could have come up with a line like that...
Groups such as Ordine Nuovo (New Order) and Ordine Nero (Black Order) exist largely underground and range in size from a handful to several hundred members. Their activities include both the open violence of the NAR, the dominant force in the ultra-right movement, and the more traditional politicking of Terza Po-sizione (Third Position), a legal, strongly nationalist organization that operates just this side of Italy's antiFascism laws...
...mayor (mostly), cleaned up after itself (doggedly) and become a happier place to live (generally). There are naysayers (naturally) and data to justify their attitude. But most New Yorkers agree that the place is fit as a fiddle again, and only a few believe that the fiddle is Nero...
...present revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is a gutsplitter. An accident immures Whiteside (Ellis Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...
...people in magazines; yes, anyone can look like Adolph Hitler--he is the common man playing out his most banal fantasies. And, the film implies, anyone with the will can be Adolph Hitler. Hitler is climactically embodied by an actor in lengthy monologue, dressed in the togas of Nero, rising up from Wagner's grave, his faced piqued in totalitarian scowl...