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...last public words spoken by Pope Pius XII were published last week in L'Osservatore Romano. On Sunday morning, three hours before he suffered the first of his two strokes, he had insisted on appearing in the courtyard of Castel Gandolfo...
That would undoubtedly have been that, if Rome's daily Avanti had not remarked that the Venice jury had honored a movie ridiculing religion. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano followed up with an editorial headed BLASPHEMOUS PARODY WINS PRIZE. "Designed to diffuse atheism," cried Osservatore. "The show amounts to making a grotesque laughingstock of the Holy Scriptures and implicitly of God Almighty himself...
Countered Rome's pro-Communist press: Osservatore's kind of "strict ideological defense'' is partly responsible for the low state of Italian culture; as for Effel's pictures, they are "breezy," "charming," "graceful," "creative." Said Cartoonist Effel. a militant left-winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This...
...story chiefly concerns the bastard son of Nick Romano, the young Chicago gangster who walked to the chair in Knock On Any Door. Like his father, young Nick grows up on North Clark Street, home of the hustler, the "hard-eyed, the con-man, the pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself...
...refused to see Rinaldo until she was released from her vows* by special papal dispensation. Last week Onetime Nun Alba was settling down with her husband Rinaldo in a three-room flat in the Tuscan village of San Romano. "Just think of it," wrote the weekly Settimo Giorno, "a happy ending...