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...Naples." For four vertiginous hours, women glamorize this compilation film, as they do Italian (and every other) cinema. "Voyage" begins with Magnani's death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl...
...turns out that Jelly's boss, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), hasn't been feeling well lately. He hasn't been his usual heartless self. He can't beat his enemies to a pulp anymore. "You havin' one of them mind-grains?" Jelly asks. Paul insists he's having a coronary but feels well enough to pound the doctor who dares to tell him it's only an anxiety attack. Jelly decides to be helpful and gives his boss Ben Sobol's business card...
...recognizes Paul Vitti from the newspaper pictures; he practically has an anxiety attack of his own when Paul interrupts a therapy session to say that he needs counseling. "What is my goal here?" Ben asks. "To make you a happy, well-adjusted gangster?" No, Paul says; there's a big meeting of the country's major Mafia families in two weeks, and he can't afford to appear weak. He needs a quick cure. Ben takes the case-how can he say no to the man with the hired guns? and thus begins a wild romp that shifts rapidly between...
Although Reiss, Jean, Vitti, Martin and Gregory M. Daniels '85 have all moved on to other writing assignments, and O'Brien has his own late-night talk show, Richard J. Appel '85, who is a Crimson editor, Daniel J. Greaney '86, Daniel A. McGrath '86-'87, Steven R. Tompkins '87-'88 and David S. Cohen '88 have all joined the show, bringing the Harvard contingent to eight of the show's 12 regular writers...
...producer then further taunts the cartoon writer, who according to the current writers is a dead ringer for Vitti who was then a writer on the show...