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...influence in the film industry visually is probably Vittorio Di Sica, and obviously Scorsese. But if I could grow up to be a filmmaker, I'd like to be Hal Ashby. Hal Ashby is, like, my hero. But the influences?--obviously, the Italians...
These days the Mafia needs a p.r. effort greater than even Martin Scorsese can muster. Vittorio Amuso, head of the New York City-based Lucchese crime family, was convicted last week on 54 counts of murder and racketeering. Two days later, a federal judge in Boston sentenced Raymond Patriarca, former head of the eponymous New England Mob ring, to an eight-year prison term. But the grief doesn't end there. Scheduled for sentencing this week is glamour don John Gotti...
Chiodo, who began cooperating with prosecutors after surviving an attempted Mob rubout last year, is scheduled to appear at the Gotti trial. Federal officials also regard him as a prime witness against alleged Lucchese crime boss Vittorio Amuso...
...dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment as if in benediction...
...among the races. Ironically, the giant retailer now finds itself accused of racism. "Handcuffs do not convey brotherhood," says Donald Polk, president of the New York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head: "We thought of the campaign as anti-racist." Benetton's next series of ads will retain the racial-harmony theme but, says Rava, will be "sweeter...