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From the half-moon of its island-dotted bay, the city of Naples climbs up to the hills where the rich nestle in their gardened villas. Lining the stepped streets below, gurgling with underground drains, are the crowded tenements where live a million Neapolitan poor. It is a city that delights the eye as often as it offends the nose. "You may say, narrate, paint what you will, here is more than all of it put together," wrote Goethe. "I pardon all those who have lost their minds in Naples...
Regrettably, visitors often lose more than their minds. A charming but light-fingered people, Neapolitans relieve their guests of everything from cars and clothes to wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night...
...Lingering Look. Perhaps it is, but Marcello Mastroianni falls into a Neapolitan reverie at the very mention of her name (". . . her childish, pouty lips, that slightly devastated look, her tiny, Japanese hands . . ."), and film directors all over the world have to struggle to praise her enough. "She can be elemental or elegant, warm or astringent-in fact, anything she chooses," says Orson Welles. England's Tony Richardson calls her "more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Director Vittorio De Sica animate a hilarious, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is hounded to the altar by his tart...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) pairs Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in a hilarious, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is dragged to the altar by an indomitable tart...