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...fact, the culture through which Merrill moved was, most of the time, not "European" at all. Expatriate Americans are more numerous and more important in A Different Person than anyone born and raised overseas. An exception is Dr. Detre, the Rome-based psychiatrist whom Merrill sees almost daily during his residence in Italy, and who eventually becomes Merrill's only reason to stay in the country...
...past 15 years, Janney said, he has taken his act "not to clubs but on the streets." Previous displays have taken place in the New York subway, the Spanish steps in Rome and the steps of the Justice Department in Washington, he said...
...undermine civilization." Qui, moi? Responsible for the decline and fall of civilizations from east to west and back again? My, my, but I have been a busy, busy girl. All that time I was supposed to be off writing my too-too fabulous dissertation, I was actually fiddling while Rome burned. I obviously do not have my priorities, er, straight. Calgon, take me away...
Their life together meets a fateful disruption when they arrive in Rome and join up with a tent circus group at the edge of town. Here Gelsomina meets "The Fool" (Richard Basehart), player of the world's smallest violin. The Fool has a gentle poetic nature, and falls for Gelsomina immediately. She is so shocked that someone is being kind to her that she walks into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens...
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