04/12/2011 Newsletter

In July of 1974 my wife and I fled Rome–where over a period of three weeks, plus one additional morning–I had penned the biggest-budgeted film produced in Europe that summer. In a rented Fiat we drove through Tuscany, visited also Sienna, Verona, Venice, Lake Como, and ultimately Milan where we caught a plane back to the States. From what were we running? The fear that the Carabinieri, the Italian heat, upon discovering fifteen million lire in our hotel room in cold, hard cash would wrongfully accuse us of drug trafficking. Click here to read on for the full adventure.

– Richard Walter