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...Florida. The Crimson is slated to play a day-night doubleheader tomorrow in Clearwater, Fla., opening against Quinnipiac and then taking on Duquesne under the lights of Jack Russell Stadium. The Bobcats, picked second in the preseason Northeast Conference poll, are led by senior outfielder and .400 hitter Ryan Rizzo. The Dukes (2-5) were swept in a season-opening three-game series by then-No. 15 Georgia Tech, and tuned up against the local big league squad, the Pittsburgh Pirates, yesterday. Sunday holds in store a meeting with Big East foe Notre Dame (3-6). The Fighting Irish knocked...
...well into this fascinating movie - about a crafty old tailor and money lender named Geremia (Giacomo Rizzo - before we realize that the old woman is the aged mother Geremia dutifully cares for, the young woman is a Romanian refugee whom a matchmaker tries fruitlessly to fix up with Geremia, and the volleyball girls are his one erotic release in an otherwise mean existence...
...Geremia knows his limitations; he says, "I don't believe in God. If He believed in me, he'd have made me a little more handsome." His ugliness is a burden he tries to bear with dignity, like the live-in millstone that is his mother. And in Rizzo's portrayal, Geremia becomes more than an ogre; he is any man who realizes that beauty is something that will never be given him. He must buy, steal or try to destroy it. The other characters, especially Rosalba and Gino, are not mere stooges for Geremia; they are by turns victims...
THOMAS C. RIZZO JR. Largo...
...YOUR EARLIEST GIGS WAS COVERING FRANK RIZZO, THE CONTROVERSIAL MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA, WHO YOU SAY TRIED TO GET YOU FIRED ONCE A WEEK. YET YOU CRIED WHEN HE DIED. AMONG THE PEOPLE YOU'VE COVERED, WHO WOULDN'T YOU CRY FOR? The President of Sudan. But, you know, there's almost always something good about almost anyone you meet. One of the things I learned over the years is that everyone has human frailties and needs. Take a step back from the daily give and take, and you realize they're all people with families and egos, and there...