Word: veneto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage; with stupid distortion, he makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren of meaning as it is of style...
...unofficial mayor of Rome's Via Veneto is Lionel Stander, a growling, grimacing, profane old lion with the plumage of a peacock and the unabashed appetites of a goat. As he fanfaronades along, groups of young Roman cognoscenti crowd round him and cry "Ciao, Lionello!" As he gleefully claims, "Some of the best-looking broads in Rome call me and ask 'Can I come sleep with you, baby...
...lives in a terraced penthouse off the Via Veneto. His proudest possessions are an awesome round bed with black satin sheets and an awesome American blonde named Jill Purcell, who refers to herself as "Lionel's Girl Friday-and Girl Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday." She doesn't even mind that Lionel occasionally entertains local talent, she says, "as long as they make their own beds and help out in the kitchen...
Cinema's greatest living satirist (La Dolce Vita, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits), Director Federico Fellini has always been half in love with his main target: decadence. His favorite gallery is Rome, where the extravagances of the Via Veneto add daily calories to the Sweet Life. The Appian Way leads into the past, into the harsh, lurid revels of Petronius, who mocked Nero's ancient Sybarites with the first Satyricon. Although only fragments of that manuscript survive, they are enough to reveal a Homeric spoof. The hilariously ignoble hero, Encolpius (sometimes translated as "the Crotch...