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...back 1 ½ kg. (roughly 3 Ibs.). ¶ San Domenico Palace in Taormina, Italy. A converted monastery, one of its cloisters 600 years old, the San Domenico has been a hotel since 1896. Part of its appeal is the monkish ambiance, part the views of Mount Etna and the Sicilian seascape. Though rooms are air-conditioned, most guests leave their windows open to enjoy the perfume from orange, lemon and almond trees in the garden beneath. Winter used to be the peak season, and in those days, recalls Night Porter Antonino Cappelli, as few as three titled families would fill...
...less inflation than it has had in years. The auto industry produced a record 1,366,000 cars; steel production increased by 8% while most European steelmakers were in decline. One danger is spending by local governments. Milan is the only major city with a balanced budget; in the Sicilian city of Messina (pop. 262,000), budgeted expenses exceeded revenues by a staggering...
After the Fox presents Sellers in a garlicky farce that could barely make the late late show on Sicilian TV. Most of the actors race around the screen like men outrunning the sound of their own words. Sellers himself is cast as a sort of Unlucky Luciano who poses as a sort of Federico Foolini. He makes a film about some crooks smuggling $3,000,000 worth of gold bullion into Italy-and uses the movie project as a cover for some actual smuggling. The phony film is shown at his trial. It is intended to look absurdly awful...
...ROSE TATTOO. In his most verdant drama, Tennessee Williams molded his most earthy and full-blown heroine (Maureen Stapleton), a Sicilian widow in Louisiana, whose glory fades at the death of her husband, but is eventually brought back to bloom by another man (Harry Guardino...
...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...