An intelligent, consummately decent man of untainted gifts, Claudio Cappon finally (and deservedly) has his old job back — leading RAI.
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Body Heat
Kat on a Hot Tin Roof, with a smitten William Hurt tossed in.
Independence Day
It’s not easy when your neighbor is the U.S. ambassador. People talk. Isn’t my apartment owned by the government? Isn’t my magazine financed by the CIA?
Earth Girls are Easy
This could (should) be called "Giggling for Aliens" — a hit on Mars.
Corpse Envy
Death modeled as a sure thing is the most exciting pornography on the planet. Think Mussolini on the meat hook, loathed upside down in Milan.
Marianne Williamson
"We're talking about a spiritual sensibility here, not religious dogma. A universal compassion has to do with consciousness..."
Skammen (Shame)
"Shame" is Bergman's exceptionally bleak war fable, and it leaves no way out.
Minority Report
Spielberg gets it right — and then some — because PK Dick lets him.
Starship Troopers
A Fascist parable starring hellacious insects. Forget the bug spray.
Meltdown
Violence, for worse, is a national growing pain — just ask the Civil War, or the Apache.
Paddy Agnew
"Italy is a culture where what goes on in public really matters, public perception matters..."
Accepting Rejection
Cheating, including "ghostwriting," is rampant at all levels in Italian education.