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Gore Vidal has not been so angry since his famed TV screaming bout with William F. Buckley Jr. The movie that finished shooting last week in Rome, he says, is "easily one of the worst films ever made." But then Vidal qualifies his indictment. The film does have some distinction after all: "It is not just another bad movie. It is a joke movie." What is the name of this silly film? Why Gore Vidal's Caligula, of course. Despite the exploitation of Vidal's money-coining name, it has little to do with Vidal-and even less...
...shot in Italy since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra (1963). Guccione hired some of England's best actors-Malcolm McDowell to play Caligula, Peter O'Toole for the diseased Emperor Tiberius and John Gielgud for the aristocratic Nerva. He then set about constructing half of ancient Rome: a mile-long facsimile of a 1st century street, a 100-yd.-long stadium, and a 175-ft.-long floating bordello, encrusted with gold leaf, where the wives of Roman Senators were forced into prostitution to fill Caligula's treasury. "We've got to find a museum...
...Back in Rome after moviemaking in Montreal, Actress Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid...
...among the U.S. bishops, and his controversial innovation will surely rouse opposition in more conservative dioceses. He had received a guarded message from the Pope's Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Jean Jadot, who wished him well but offered neither approval nor condemnation, a possible signal that Rome was willing to let the idea be tested. Dozier's experiment was derived from the revised rules for the sacrament of Penance, which went into effect in the U.S. earlier this year...
...those who took Communion were instructed to make individual confessions later. Those who are divorced and remarried, in Memphis as elsewhere, must gain annulments, in which the church rules that their previous marriages never truly existed. However, the once difficult procedure is now handled locally rather than in Rome, and many dioceses have expanded the grounds to include psychological factors at the time of marriage...