Word: sicilianism
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...began as a bootlegger in Brooklyn at 21 and by 24 was a gunrunner for Al Capone. He dispatched his duties so well that in 1931 Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno was anointed a don-at 26, the youngest godfather in the nation. For the next three decades, "Joe Bananas" ruthlessly ran a New York City crime family that specialized in gambling, labor racketeering, loan sharking and narcotics. In 1966 he supposedly retired to a modest ranch house in Tucson...
...what is byzanium? It's super-uranium, only found on one island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot...
Jason Robards plays an admiral, the man in charge of the Sicilian Project and hence the Titanic resurfacing. Richard Jordan is Dirk Pitt, a retired Navy intelligence officer so daring that he's asked to supervise the salvage operation ("He'll only take a crack at something if it sounds impossible; otherwise he wants no part of it," says Admiral Robards of his mercenary friend). And David Selby is Dr. Seagram, a scientist who, somewhat inexplicably, learned enough at Cal Poly to both devise the laser shield and figure out how to find the Titanic. There is even a woman...
...chain of events that led to the imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans...
Because the commercial is composed of vignettes, extensive auditions are necessary. The search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...