Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will probably see little cause for her concern. Cast as a kittenish prostitute on the run from a maniacal killer, Elke displays her talents in one scene through an all-leather outfit she bought in Chicago. "I loved it and wanted to wear it barefoot during the filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer, who quickly ordered his star to buy a pair of snakeskin boots. However, the footwear footage ended up on the cutting-room floor, and the $700 Italian boots were consigned to a far corner of Elke's closet...
...careers have faded, the future bride still plans to make an album of love songs before easing into the role of housewife. "I believe that a girl has to be the homey sort to keep her man," says Twigs, who intends to dish up the eggs-and-chips in Rome, where Whitney will soon be making a movie. "He is a bit of a gypsy," she allows. "I would never let him be there by himself with all those fabulous Italian birds...
Other Catholics did not agree. As the case went to trial last week, Vatican Radio broadcast an interview with Corrado Manni, a physician at Rome's Catholic University who specializes in resuscitation. He remarked that a decision to remove the respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim...
...lady taking in the sights with Marcello Mastroianni, 51, simply had to be a movie star, with those smoldering dark eyes-but no. "One actor in the family is enough," said Barbara Mastroianni, 23, the actor's daughter by his wife, Flora Carabella. Barbara, a costume designer in Rome, accompanied her father to the U.S. to promote his new film, Down the Ancient Stairs. Despite the obvious affection between father and daughter, the romantic actor wants it to be clear that he is not a family man. "You Americans, you always have to have a conventional image...
...shouldn't be a total loss, Mahogany contains one pearl: a romantic interlude between Diana Ross and Anthony Perkins. Ross appears as Tracy, a poor girl from the Chicago ghetto who has made it big as a model in Rome. Perkins plays Sean, a former combat correspondent who has made it big as a fashion photographer. Sean's sexuality remains moot through much of the film -until the moment when he forces a chilly Tracy down on a bed and mutters, "I understand the needs of a woman...