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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dolce Vita (in Italian). The road to hell in this case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
...have served as the keystone of his plot, Fellini did not shape it clearly enough to provide motivation for Steiner's suicide: he leaves us with only the orgy to fall back on. Without any sharply defined motivation of his own, Marcello slips deeper into the quagmire of the Via Veneto. He becomes just another orgiast...
Author Alec Waugh, 62, has had a literary career more frustrating than most. He wrote his first novel at 17, but when it appeared to glowing reviews, young Alec was a British lieutenant busy dodging enemy shells in France. By the time he got home to London, via a German prison camp, the novel was virtually forgotten. Back in civvies, Alec Waugh soon found himself laboring manfully in the shadow of his more gifted and glamorous younger brother, Evelyn, now 57, who vaulted quickly to fame with a succession of esoterically savage novels, from Decline and Fall to The Loved...
...Dolce Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
GARY: La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini's masterpiece exposes the decadent uppercrust that haunts Romo's Via Veneto, Spectacular photograph and unnumbered orgies spot-light a memorable if not continually absorbing expose...