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THE WORKS OF TINTO BRASS

Big Budgets and Big Headaches—Continued

L’uomo di sabbia

(The Sandman, 1976)

Also in 1976 Brass directed Riccardo Reim’s stage play. I know nothing else about this. And then Brass ran for political office, on the Radical Party platform, and lost. Curious about the 1976 Italian elections, I checked the Zimmerman Library at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and lo and behold the full results were on the shelf for everyone to see. Who’d a thunk it? Hundreds of pages of microscopic print revealed a string of zeros, and only zeros, in the Radical Party column. Maybe I missed something, but I don’t think so. Shades of Florida?

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