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...explanations as to why everyone can safely speak English. He gets help from Innkeeper Lilli Palmer, spends an edgy night with Sophia Loren because he happens to be impersonating her dead husband. Loren's brief role seems little more than a favor to her real-life husband, Carlo Ponti, who is Crossbow's producer...
...Simple solution to Carlo Ponti's problem: he should embrace Islam...
Last week Ponti got his answer. The Mexican marriage was no legal fiction, said a Rome civil court. It had in fact been annulled, but by contracting it in the first place, Ponti was still guilty of bigamy, though the court did not charge him with the crime. Almost as if he had expected the ruling, the producer had already started down another escape route: he has become a French citizen on the theory that the move will allow him to divorce his wife under French law and remarry Sophia...
...French Ponti, however, does not automatically cease being Italian. As it happens, Italy recognizes dual citizenship; some Italians (such as ex-soldiers) can never renounce their citizenship. If Italian courts fail to agree that Ponti has become a 100% Frenchman, marriage to Sophia may bring up the bigamy charge once more. Moreover, if he divorces his first wife in France, she will still be his legal wife in Italy...
...Ponti's acquisition of French citizenship has churned up a real fear that many others will soon follow him abroad. "Just imagine what would happen," asked one member of Parliament, "if all the 'irregulars' in the arts should follow Ponti's example!" It is an interesting thought, but in the face of church opposition, few Italian politicians of any party are anxious to fight out the issue. As Rome Lawyer Ercole Graziadei wryly puts it: "The day will come when England will adopt the metric system and China will use the Latin alphabet. But Italy will...