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...head, a trout had been placed on her neck and another on her shoulder; a wine bottle was left on her belly, and there was a mound of sausage near her body. Police speculate that the strange scene could have been a twisted biblical reference to the Last Supper. They also suspect that the killer was mocking them by making a tableau out of the victim...
...organized assistants into a production line preparing plaster layers, grinding colors and transferring sketches, Basile assembled his team. As well as Institute graduates, he recruited Gianluigi Colalucci, who was responsible for restoring the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, and Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, restoration overseer for Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...halfway up the slope leading up from our camp," she wrote her family from Kenya. "All around the crickets are singing their nightly chorus--and so many different types of song, it is hard to imagine...An owl is hooting about a half-mile down the gorge, and before supper we heard the weird call of the hyena--which means His Lordship the Lion is around somewhere...At the moment I must stop, and after sitting up here, quite alone with the wind, the moon, the stars, the whole immense vastness of Africa and the Serengeti with the mysterious universe...
...that is all the setup that accompanies Joey and Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding, the long running dinner-theater spectacle which reopened last month at downtown Boston’s Tremont Playhouse. And although its sister production, The Soprano’s Last Supper, mines much the same material for laughs, each show manages to stand on its own and win laughs as a thorough and tremendously funny send-up of, and tribute to, the absurd pop culture depiction of Italian-Americans...
...same can often be said of The Soprano’s Last Supper, a similar show which focuses its energies more narrowly on satirizing the pervasive connection made between the Italian-American community and the mafia. The Soprano’s Last Supper is a meeting of prominent crime families, á la The Godfather, who must reconfigure the balance of power now that Tony, the patriarch of the Baritone family (get it? Sopranos? Baritones? Well, it’s a bit over the characters heads), is being sent up the river. The show gets off to a slow start...