Word: rossellini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This case of mistaken identity started two years ago when Vidal was approached with the idea for the film by Producer Franco Rossellini. Vidal agreed to write a screenplay, and he introduced Rossellini to Guccione, who, with a logic Descartes would have envied, realized that where there are mad Roman Emperors there must also be orgies-along with big grosses at the box office and an endless supply of nude picture spreads for Penthouse...
...Emperor Caligula-but Author Gore Vidal is the kingfish when it comes to his newest screen project. "It's called Gore Vidal's Caligula and not just Caligula, since that gives me some control," he says of the film now being produced in Italy by Franco Rossellini. Still, in a rare lapse from his usual impermeable poise, the screenwriter confessed, "Control entails responsibility, and sometimes I just don't know what's going on." Vidal expects his appearance on TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which he will film in Hollywood next month, will prove...
Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
...Robert Rossellini's Augustine of Hippo, Sunday...
...Rossellini's Age of the Medici: The Power of Cosimo, with a Laurel and Hardy short, Sunday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. GUND HALL...