It with extreme sadness that I am sharing the news of Marcello Mastroianni's death with Screen-Lers. He died this morning in his house in Paris. The cause was cancer. His body will be flown to Rome where his funeral will take place this coming Sunday, 12/22. If I may also share a personal note with the list, here's a message from my father, who saw Mastroianni in his his last theater engagement in Milano, a little over a month ago. He told me over the phone this afternoon that in the play by Furio Bordon, titled *Le Ultime Lune* (*The Last Moons*), Mastroianni's character--an old man who unwillingly ends up in a nursing home, declares that his wish is to die on Christmas day. And the title of Mastroianni's latest film is also: *Three Lives and Only One Death.* Maybe I am becoming morbid, but all this metalanguage makes me even sadder. **************************************************************************** gloria monti 269 W. 12th St., #2-2, New York, NY 10014-1975 american studies voice mail: (212) 604-0779 yale university e-mail: [log in to unmask] "he was blessed with the happiness and the nonchalant courage that come of living according to one's principles." james traub, about william kunstler **************************************************************************** ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]