Fellini's Roma ... Rome's Fellini
October, 1972
Fellini's Roma ... Rome's FelliniArriving in Rome on a balmy day, there is no need to ask what's new. The answer is plastered throughout the city and suburbs on countless billboards, each displaying--against a deep-red Roman sky--the sad, skeptical face and extravagant bosom of a prostitute, one of the road-running night birds known locally as le polverose, or "the dusty ones." Given that familiar image, it hardly comes as a surprise to read the accompanying legend, Roma--Il Capolavoro...