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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* It Started in Naples. The tiny Mediterranean island of Capri is background for this 1960 romantic comedy, with Sophia Loren at her most briosa, Vittorio De Sica at his most simpatico, and Clark Gable at his usual most...
...loved meeting Lauren Bacall," gushed Claudia Cardinale. "Gee, I don't remember if I went to a party or not," admitted Faye Dunaway, 27, who was in Rome for her latest film, The Lovers, and was the sight for all eyes at a bash given by Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman. "La Dolce Vita's dead," explained Gassman, "so I called it the 'California Roman Party' to honor the foreigners in town." From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita is alive and well in Rome. Partygoers boogalooed through the night, watched underground flicks, forked in vats...
Hypocritical leftists aren't the only ones ridiculed. The film's most honest character, a 17-year-old, spouts Maoisms while being seduced. The film centers around Vittorio (beautifully played by Glattco Mauri), a rich bourgeois who out of vanity accepts the Socialist nomination for a local office. They want his respectability to hide his own rather comic ineffectuality. Of course all these hypocrisies destroy each other. The radicals take on Vittorio's bourgeoisie, while he remains as impotent in politics as in his own home...
...Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...
Before Fiat Chairman Vittorio Valletta (who died last summer) clinched his company's automaking deal, for example, some 48 Soviet groups of experts journeyed to Turin to see what makes Fiat...