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...DIED. BRUCE PALTROW, 58, behind-the-scenes Hollywood veteran; from pneumonia-related complications; while on vacation with Oscar-winner daughter Gwyneth in Rome. Paltrow, husband of actress Blythe Danner, most recently directed and produced Duets, a comedy starring his daughter...
...locals don't want to let go of the exhibit because of the "celebrity status" it bestows on the village. "It's like the little town that roared," he says. "Tens of thousands of people come here who would not otherwise." He and Dotti, 32, who lives in Rome, are also upset by what they see as "overcommercialization" of the site, with tourists trekking from the gravesite to the museum and across the field to Hepburn's old house, sometimes even attempting to scale the moss-and-ivy-covered stone wall around the property to get a better look. Ferrer...
...Vatican should attempt to aid the underground church? For us, the underground church was the lawful church because it was united with the Holy Father. Those other people, who followed the government in running the independent church, they were not in the right tradition because they were separated from Rome. So we had a very clear division of the two parts. Then, little by little, we had the chance to see the reality that even those in the so-called official church were much attached to Rome in their hearts. On the occasion of my ordination as bishop, I told...
...judges are biased. Is Berlusconi a closet bleeding heart for the plight of the indicted masses? Not likely. Suffice it to say that the conservative media baron-turned-politician empathizes with the accused. The two-and-a-half-year-long trial against Berlusconi and his associates for allegedly bribing Rome judges in the mid-'80s returned to a Milan courtroom last Saturday. As usual, the defendant was not physically present. That doesn't mean he wasn't busy on the case. The Prime Minister had a two-hour meeting on Thursday with Gaetano Pecorella, a lawyer and legislator who divides...
MEANWHILE A Fistful of Denarii The men who hang around outside Rome's Colosseum dressed as gladiators and posing for snapshots with tourists might seem to have found an easy way of making a living. No longer. The city has new rules decreeing the sesterces they'll be able to charge for saying, "On my command, unleash hell...