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This down-to-earth Piedmontese, it is readily apparent, defines himself exclusively by his work. The projects he describes are all outsize and difficult. "They never find oil in great places, say at San Remo or on the Costa Brava," is the way he begins a yarn about an offshore drilling rig in Alaska. The 250-meter tower was constructed horizontally on land, then towed out through cold, leaden seas and righted on site by flooding chambers at the base. On paper the task seemed simple; in practice it required judgment, skill and luck that almost defy imagination. Some Third...
...Antrobus family itself ought to be the ordinary nuclear unit except that Mrs. Antrobus (Rebecca Clark) has to remind Sabina to milk the pet mammoth, son Henry (Remo Airaldi) is 4000 years old and used to be called Cain, and Mr. Antrobus (Eric Oleson) comes home at night with his prototypical model for the wheel. But even if Henry did, eons ago, kill his brother Abel, and even if Sabina does stumble around the house threatening to give her two-weeks notice, throughout the first act the Antrobus family is united with the remaining inhabitants of the world to save...
...Clive (Remo Airaldi) the patriarch of the family who is given to waxing eloquent about the greatness of the British empire, watches over his family with an eagle eye while also protecting his neighbor the "spirited" Mrs. Saunders (Lisa Peers). In one overly graphic scene, Clive's solicitousness of Mrs. Saunders entails under-the-skirt oral sex. But Betty (Daniel Luke Zelman), Clive's wife, is not exactly pure either. Harry Bagley (Christian Kanuth), a dashing explorer, comes to visit and sample his friend Clive's family life and wife...
...rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since the '30s. He describes a friend's fate: "Tommy used a piano wire. Remo put up some fight. He kicked and swung . . . They buried him in the backyard at Robert's (restaurant), under a layer of cement right next to the boccie court. From then on, every time they played, Jimmy and Tommy used to say, 'Hi, Remo, how ya doing...
Beacon Hill: 1 Beacon at Tremont, 723-8110 Commando: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50; Deathwish 3:1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Remo Williams...