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Sent to a minimum-security "honor camp" in Lompoc, Calif., a kind of penal country club for a handful of privileged convicts, the Alessios lost no time in buttering up the guards. On different occasions, according to the indictment, the Alessios arranged a free weekend at a resort hotel in Stateline, Nev., for one parole officer and his family; they treated another prison official to a lavishly catered sojourn at the Kona Kai, a San Diego club controlled by Smith. Another time Tony Alessio hosted a fishing trip for a guard and three of his friends that ended with...
...electorate seemed resigned was the widespread practice of illegal spending on entertaining voters and sometimes making outright cash purchases of votes. In pre-election campaigning, one candidate, for instance, reportedly spent $20,000 to entertain an entire village of 1,500 for one night at a hot-springs resort...
...plays Wendell Armbruster Jr., a harried cliche of an executive, a Baltimoron whose morals are romantically updated in the course of the film. Armbruster flies to Italy to claim the body of his father the conglomerate chief, who had driven off a cliff during his annual convalescence at a resort south of Naples. But Wendell learns, to his dismay, that his nearly seventy-year-old father had led a ten-summer secret Amalfi life and died intertwined with Kate Piggott, mother of Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills)--a British "bird" who's come to bury Mummy...
...jejune as his. Predictably, the two repeat the lives of their parents, falling in love--being forced into love, in fact, by a succession of coincidences including murder, body, snatching, and their inexplicable desire to please the hotel staff, who had adored old Kate and Willy with their charming resort romance...
...seems, he has discovered the essence of love. He has taken up with the empathetic Miss Piggott, allowed his father's burial in Italy alongside old Kate, and even faked out the State Department. Avanti' presents Wendell's a change as speciously as a resort presents paradise to its guests...