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Long before Russell Crowe helped reignite filmgoers' enthusiasm for Roman epics, Sir Peter Ustinov, now 81, was king of the genre. He fiddled as Nero while Rome burned in Quo Vadis? (1951) and won the first of his two Academy Awards in 1960 for a supporting role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. "When I was in Rome for the 50th anniversary of Quo Vadis?, the mayor asked me to say a few words in Italian," Ustinov recalls. "I reminded him I was Nero, who only spoke Latin." The story captures the wit and erudition for which Ustinov - who was knighted...
...DiCAPRIO: Certainly in "Gangs of New York" we felt cocooned in this entirely different world. Every day we woke up and came to New York. Of course we were in Rome shooting at Cinecitt?, but we walked on the set immersed in New York history. Life really started to bubble around us as the extras walked around in period garb. Every day, we felt we were walking into a time transport...
George A. Weller ’29, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Chicago Daily News and former editorial chair of The Crimson, died in Rome...
...Supreme Court listened to a big case on cross burning, a subject so universally agreed upon so long ago that Clarence Thomas felt safe enough to talk out loud about it. More amazingly, the Catholic Church convened a conference in Rome to discuss what to do with pedophile priests. You would think after the first half an hour, when someone said, "How about we put them in jail?" they would all go home. But they kept going, coming up with a long proclamation that, somehow, was something other than "How about we put them in jail...
RESIGNED. BERNARD CARDINAL LAW, 71, as Archbishop of Boston; over his protection of priests accused of sexual abuse; after a meeting with Pope John Paul II; in Rome. (See page...