Memoirs shed new light on La Dolce Vita era of drugs, sex and debauchery
The character played by Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's classic film was partly based on a gossip columnist now writing his own account of Rome's scandalous 1950s
When the gossip columnist Victor Ciuffa emerged blinking from a private viewing of La Dolce Vita in Rome in February 1960, he had one thought in his mind: the film he had just watched amounted to his life played out on the screen.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 7 February, 2010
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