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...Carreras-to risk their reputations and submerge their famous egos by appearing on the same stage seemed preposterous. It happened only because Domingo and Pavarotti wanted to help Carreras, financially drained after a battle with leukemia. Yet when the musical titans gathered before 6,000 people at Rome's Baths of Caracalla one July night in 1990, operatic history was made...
...Gore Vidal, in his lovely essay called "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird" - actually a review of Tennessee Williams' memoirs - wrote with immense affection of 1948. He remembered the year as a golden age, best savored in Rome or New York City. Best Year tends to be the year when you were young and strong, and had just made the giddy discovery that you could commit great follies and survive them - the discovery that you were, for practical purposes and for the indefinite future, immortal...
...Coleman says she believes that the Hollywood vision of Rome is based more on 19th and 20th century interpretation than on primary reasearch. She points to the work of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema as feeding the "sword and sandal" look of prior films...
Roberto Gloria has a sign touting Danish beef in the window of his Rome butcher shop, but nobody's buying. Red meat used to make up 60% of his business, he says, but since the first case of "mad cow" disease was discovered in Italy last month, "no one even asks for it. Shoppers are terrorized." Meanwhile, at a bustling organic meat and vegetable market on Paris' Boulevard Raspail, greengrocer Gérard Courvaisier is all smiles. "Business is up 30% here. People suddenly see us as a refuge. The mad cow crisis has been a real shot...
...Tomaso and Anna Longo took out a loan with the Banca di Roma to buy a two-bedroom house in the fashionable Prati section near the heart of Rome. The interest was a painful 12.5%, but the Longos had little alternative, since that was about the average rate on a home mortgage in those days. Anna, a civil servant, says that life became a matter of pinching lire. "We couldn't ever go away anywhere," she recalls. "We didn't even go out to the cinema...