Word: panza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Hollywood Ten were exorcised from the film industry, Chaplin offered his voice to the choir of protest. Two years later, one of the ten, Alvah Bessie, called on Chaplin begging for a writing assignment. How about a movie on Don Quixote, Bessie spitballed, with you as Sancho Panza and Walter Huston as Don? "They'd crucify me," Chaplin told him crisply and offered a farewell handshake. When Bessie morosely withdrew, he found a folded hundred-dollar bill in his palm...
...carbine, and three counts of assaulting and kidnaping the plane crew and an Italian police official. Last November, a criminal court in Rome managed to limit his penalty to 71 years after the defense eloquently described him as a "Don Quixote without Dulcinea, without Sancho Panza, who instead of mounting his Rocinante flew across the skies...
...Defense Attorney Giuseppe Sotgiu seemed to agree with the prosecutor's every word. "I am sure that Italian judges will understand and forgive an act born from a civilization of aircraft and war violence, a civilization which overwhelmed this uncultured peasant, this Don Quixote without Dulcinea, without Sancho Panza, who instead of mounting his Rocinante flew across the skies...