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...quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back from vacation and spouting 'Spaccare la faccia, porco!'" Cam says with a laugh. The phrase roughly translates as "Shove it in your face, pig" and was "probably one of the milder things he learned," says Cam. "I had to learn Italian to get food at the table," John recalls. "I could make a sailor blush in Italian...
...This is a story of human accomplishment," exulted Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team. "How can anyone not be excited about that...
...Within minutes of Cassini's arrival, the ship's camera had fired off 61 shots of the rings, and by 10 o'clock the next morning, wide-eyed Cassini scientists were showing them to the press. "I don't think we've ever seen structures like this before," said Porco...
...young witch (Kiki's Delivery Service). "I don't think about messages or themes when I'm making my movies," he claims. "My goal is only to entertain." His genius is to cloak potent themes in stories that enchant. It's hard not to read an antiwar message in Porco Rosso, about a fighter pilot transformed into a pig, or an ecological warning in NausicaA of the Valley of the Winds, which depicts a future world rendered nearly unlivable by pollution...
...soon as national TV coverage began, before Abhijith (A-b-h-i-j-i-t-h) Eswarappa broke the streak. Or the sad tale of Lauren Fowler, who, for the second straight year, went out on an item of Italian cuisine. Last year it was biscotti; this time saltimbocca. Porco Dio bee people. Porco...