1960-1969 Actor - Actress
Feb. 29 Once H: Won Hell The Pope: In a little old Italian Villa with Crumbling walls, placid peasants, resend fruits of the harvest pastels and mortars wooden hoos and the oldest ways of tilling the ground and cooking for the family wanders a modern American in a Dark lounge suite with knowledge of all the latest modern budgets at his finger tips, straight from the glamor and glitter Hollywood. He is Rod steinger, the actor picked to play the role of the late pope John in his younger days. He Likes that the popoe is sartling and he once played A1 capone. He will not be seen as John once he was pope - this part will be taken by verious extras, shot from a distance. As well as taking the main part in the film, to be directed by Massimo Olmi and called And Thera Came A Man, Steiger will act as middle man between audience and film story, wearing a lounge suit and commenting on what i shappening. so to understand what it was like to live in the backwoods of Italyighty years ago he is spending a few weeks at Fontanella, near Sotto il Monte in Northern Italy. And soon shooting of Poe John XXIII's life from cradle to grave will begin near the cemetery at Fontnella where his parents are buried and he himself used to visit once a year - on All Souls Day.. Stiring the polents on the fire, Rod Steiger gets color for the picture
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