Entertainment & Sports
Jan. 12, 2001
The 'Lawyer-as-Devil' Craze Hits Italian Film
Among the many pleasures in the new Italian film "Malena" is watching a Sicilian defense lawyer in action in an Italian courtroom. Lawyer Centorbi, played by Gilberto Idone, puts on such a flamboyant, operatic performance, full of wild hand movements and exaggerated rhetorical outbursts, that the most outlandish American lawyer seen on television or in film seems reserved and dignified by comparison.
Among the many pleasures in the new Italian film "Malena" is watching a Sicilian defense lawyer in action in an Italian courtroom. Lawyer Centorbi, played by Gilberto Idone, puts on such a flamboyant, operatic performance, full of wild hand movements and exaggerated rhetorical outbursts, that the most outlandish American lawyer seen on television o...
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