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...hours. The Bible, which will go before the cameras next year, will be shown to audiences in three segments, two for the Old Testament, one for the New. Roughly a dozen directors will work on the picture. None are signed yet, but De Laurentiis thinks Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) might get things off to a rousing start with the Creation. He is saving Ingmar Bergman for the Apocalypse...
...Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin ("The rebels rushed up to us and ran into the fortress") into a $600,000 cavalry charge. He made one bad mistake (at least financially) when he refused to produce Fellini's La Dolce Vita. De Laurentiis says that Fellini would not eliminate the murder of two children, and "as a husband and father, I could not make such a picture...
...substantially different from the old UT Hollywood-spiced-by-Bergman entree. "This," says Kramer, "is a suburban house." And that, for Kramer, means virtually the same old diet--with the exception that the HST will strive to "pass up the lesser quality Hollywood films." On tap is La Dolce Vita and possibly Sink the Bismarck. Promises Kramer: "It won't be an art house; it will be your Hollywood films with some good foreign films spotted...
...DOLCE VITA. The year's most scandalous success: an always vulgar, sometimes powerful Italian movie in which Director Federico Fellini says what Antonioni says so much better...
...taste the delights of Lebensraum at the top. From its front courtyard, part of a neo-Renaissance palace built by the old nobility, to the comely blondes from Berlin who tend bar, the club exudes an easy opulence that suggests a Bavarian version of Rome and la dolce vita...