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Volume 3

No. 8

www.theamericanmag.com

SEPTEMBER 2006

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A Monthly for Italy and the World

A Husband too Far ...

Lakeworld North,

Cool Roman Proverbs ,

and Comics & Film in Carpi

ALSO: H APPY NEW YEAR, MAN ALONE, ADOPT A PET , COOKIES FOR THE POPE

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September 2006

the

A Monthly for Italy and the World

“Maria boards a plane with other mules including Lucy.

They’re anxious and scared but have to stick to the plan.”

Page 32

F RONT &C ENTER

5 Letters&Emails

6 A Proverbial City

10 Bubbles in Waterland

16 A Husband Too Far

A Proverbial City

Rome is a customs house

of boistrous, provocative, and often

self-aggrandizing proverbs whose colorful

irreverence is legendary.

By Martin Bennett

L IFE &T IMES

30 Quadrilatero

32 Reel Time

34 Bella Figura

34 In Case You Missed It

35 Diary

37 Lei Morde

38 Pane al Vino

39 Restaurant Guide

44 September Calendar

46 Tacco

Cover Image

Edited “Valentina” comic image ©Guido Crepax from by from

Cinema & Fumetto. I personaggi dei comics sul grande schermo,

an exhibit on the relationship between comics and film

at Palazzo del Pio in Carpi begining Sept. 23.

It moves to Pordenone in November. See page 44,

or www.studioesseci.net and www.esaexpo.it

A Husband Too Far

The author married for the first and only

time in 1994. It began in Rome, passed

through New York, and ended

in Monte Carlo. It lasted 10 weeks.

By Christopher P. Winner

www.theamericanmag.com

Editor & Publisher Christopher P. Winner Direttore Responsabile Enrico Jacomini Associate Publishers Eugenio dal Bosco, Stefan Klotzner Advertising Director Margherita Tedone, Mad&Co. International, Via della Camilluccia, 180, 00136, Rome;

Tel. 06.3550.9145; fax 06.3550.1775; email: mad&co@alfanet.it Marketing Matt Baglio Creative Director Mark Berghold Designer Giulia Angelini Associate Editors Nicole Arriaga, Kristine Crane, Suzanne Dunaway

Contributing Editors Lynda Albertson, Alisa Brown, Suzanne Bush, Benedicta Cipolla (New York), Judy Edelhoff, Marta Falconi, Matt Fiorentino, Erica Firpo, Madeleine Johnson, Monica Larner, Aaron Maines, Luisa Milanese, Clare Pedrick,

Elisabetta Povoledo, Jessica Ricci, David Spagnolo (design), Margaret Stenhouse, Charmaine Wilkerson

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letters & emails

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“Very intriguing article on Albania. I’m not sure who I’d

find there, Don Quixote or Einstein…” Claude Galeo

Via email (Valetta, Malta)

ALBANIA’S HONOR

I just finished your article on Tirana

[“Tirana Gets Real,” By Christopher P.

Winner, June]. Honestly, while reading, I

was getting tired, frustrated, happy (for an

instant), confused, and so on.

I was born and raised in Tirana. I cannot

accept a partial review of the present

situation in Tirana, or Albania for that

matter. Albania exists in the bigger context

of the Balkans. I strongly believe that once

we are at peace with ourselves as a nation

then we can work constructively.

The Mafia ruled Las Vegas until the big

corporations took over. Albanian people are

working hard wherever they can, around

Europe and U.S. to make a living. It seems

like they’re buying time until a more

prepared, financially strong generation takes

over. The hope that these factors will occur

together is strong, otherwise we can always

go back to our survival skills, sad but true.

Arian Korkuti

Via email

HAIL AZZURRI

In John Molinaro’s interview with Paddy

Agnew [“The Real Forza Italia,” June] he

(Agnew) said that Italy had a very good chance

in the World Cup because (team coach

Marcello) Lippi “values the overall team

mentality, and that’s more important than the

sheer technical skills of one or two brilliant

individual players.” I just want to say, Hail, Mr.

Agnew! The Italian team proved the wisdom

of his words in the best of ways. As for you

Americans, you still have a long road ahead.

61 percent in 1992. In 1969 only 32 percent

admitted to cheating. See Generation Me. By

Jean Twenge, Free Press, 2006.”

THERE SHE BLOWS

Your writer Matt Fiorentino [“Letter from

Vesuvius,”June-July] is one very funny guy.

D. Marinn

Via email

I wish guidebooks showed some of the

sense of humor and zaniness that [Fiorentino]

does. Some of his stuff is over the top, I

admit, but it certainly gets you into the mood.

Josephine Lariani

Via email

ON CHEATING

The issue raised by one of your columnists

[Madeleine Johnson, “Quadrilatero,” June]

regarding cheating in Italy is interesting.

I have two teenaged boys in the Chicago

public school system and they also tell me

about scams and schemes, but most of them

are pretty subtle and are [connected] to

exchanges on the Internet in chat rooms.

I think this problem certainly is systematic.

I also think we may be too sentimental in

thinking that “they’re doing it” while we

didn’t. I remember growing up in north Los

Angeles that we passed notes about exams

and cribbed from others. It may not be as

culturally rooted in America.

[Fiorentino] is the same guy who wrote the

Roman gods story, right? Well, he should

write a book called “Bizarre Takes on the

Antique World.”

Peasants flee the 1944 Vesuvius eruption.

Carol G. Monelli

Via email

www.theamericanmag.com

Editor’s note: Yes, Matt Fiorentino was

behind “The Kinky Lives of the Gods”

published in September 2005 and available

under Lifestyle at www.theamericanmag.com

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COMPLIMENTS

I found your magazine online and it is very

good. My compliments. Would it be possible

to get monthly home subscription delivery to

the United States?

Stan Garudian

Via email

Letters Policy

Letters to The Americanshould be no longer than 150

words and must include the writer’s name, address and

phone number. No attachments please. Letters may be

shortened for space requirements. Email letters to

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A note from Madeleine Johnson: “I recently

found some interesting, if depressing, summer

reading. In 2002, 74 percent of American high

school students admitted to cheating; up from

Doug Wroblewski

Via email

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