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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...
...been a waiter, too, and more recently an actor. He studied at Rome's experimental movie center and once played Athos in a 13-week, filmed U.S. TV series on The Three Musketeers...
This week he was supposed to be back on U.S. television with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. But no sooner had Domenico landed than he learned that back home in Rome his wife had given birth to a son. Marco. Tempted though he was to fly home for a prompt look at his heir, Domenico decided that the show must go on. He showed up at the Sullivan show, and to no one's surprise, sang Nel Blu. Domenico already has another song written to celebrate the baby's arrival. Its title: lo (I). Says...
Perhaps the strangest episode in his strange life came just before Gage decided to recant. Although he pleads throughout his narrative against "Popish superstitions"-including prayers to the saints-he nevertheless made a pilgrimage to Loreto to test his strength as heretic. He had already half decided to renounce Rome and become a Protestant. If, he reasoned, he prayed in bad faith before the image of Our Lady of Loreto, surely it would blush or sweat. But the image made not a sign...