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...peopled by the shadows of people, four Regent-Councillors step forward. They vote to kill a man not there--a man who has bought and sold the human soul, yet dies a martyr for the truth. The viral truth his death was to conceal spreads and infects; like the worm of Solomon, it shatters only what resists it most. When Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra die, the victims of the ineluctable pest--"the right outstripped her strength"--, the weak remain to shield their dead from the night...
Austrian Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 55, has long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...
Only the bum Davies evolves. The transformation from an amusing parasite to a hateful, leaching, divisive worm startles, because afterwards one knows the worm was there in the parasite, but one did not see it. And as Davies is transformed, the three bodies move off into their skewwed, non-interesting orbits...
...leaves off, with Flubber-faced Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes, but early-bird honors still go to Pisacane: he's got the worm...