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Paolo Roccatani Rome...
DIED. Herbert Kappler, 70, fugitive Nazi war criminal; of intestinal cancer; in Soltau, West Germany. The SS colonel who in 1944 directed the execution of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi occupation police in Rome, Kappler became known as "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves." He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Italian military court in 1948 but was transferred to a Roman hospital in 1976 for cancer treatment. He weighed only 105 Ibs. when his wife smuggled him out of the hospital in a suitcase last August, spiriting him away to West Germany...
...prospects of the Anglican Church of North America are difficult to gauge. A faction in one of the new dioceses has muddied things by opposing the Denver consecration service and calling for reunion with Rome. The church has only about 100 parishes and 10,000 members, v. 2.9 million for the Episcopal Church. But the rebels predict quick growth now that bishops are in place and have set a goal of 100,000 members by midyear. Says Robert S. Morse of Oakland, Calif, one of the new bishops: "We will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church...
...ficus trees lining the street seem to be part of a grand design by Potemkin. Still, the veteran spendthrift arriving on Rodeo Drive has a sense of déjà vu. No, the street does not possess the discreet elegance of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars...
...none of its wit, passion or eroticism. Giancarlo Giannini, looking understandably enervated, is back again as a macho Italian Communist; this time his sexual-political antagonist is the terminally weepy Candice Bergen, who plays his radical-chic American wife. A good part of the action unfolds in their fashionable Rome apartment on a very long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate...