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...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon the royal equestrians. At the Ascot riding show, Princess Anne, 11, trying a bit too hard...
...Italy tomorrow, the first thing after I leave the plane, I call Federico Fellini, and he invites me to his house and we sit up maybe all night talking. You know, when he was making La Dolce Vita, he told me, 'Mario, I can't do this job without you here...
...Concordat between the Vatican and Italy prescribes "respect of the sacred character of Rome." But, to the disgust of Pope John XXIII, many Roman revelers prefer a common law of their own: La Dolce Vita-the sweet life. Lately, seldom does a day pass when a newspaper he reads is not splashed with yet another scandal. Last week he appealed to temporal rulers of the Eternal City to control ''immorality that, as we are told, is raging in Rome no less than elsewhere...
...with mallets on the strings inside--be called "Murder in the Cathedral." In "Air Antique," cellist Howard Colf's delicate, ghostly left hand pizzicati held the audience literally gaping. Assisting countertenor Richard Levitt transformed his voice into a dazzling clarion in an improvisation on an Italian madrigal, "Dolcissima mia vita...
...would stand for Excommunication if celluloid had a soul, but in reality means Extra-Money-at-the-Box-Office. Boccaccio '70 proved the point by grossing more than $200,000 in its first ten days, milking the Italian population at an even more prodigious rate than La Dolce Vita...