Our Man in Europe: Take 32: "As the World burns..." (An Italian TV Soap Opera)

Take 32:   "As the World burns..."  (An Italian TV Soap Opera)


Ramona:  "Vicenzo? Do you REALLY have feelings for me...? (Pause) "...Or are you completely captivated  by your work in the illegal garbage disposal business?"

Vicenzo:  "Only YOU, mio cuaro! ONLY you."

Ramona:  "My daughter, from my third marriage; Francesca, as you know... is quite pre-occupied with saving the Planet,  the plight of SOME whales...and cleaning up the rabid pollution in  the campagna!"

Vicenzo:  "Bello! Magnifico!"

Ramona:  "...Which leaves her with absolutely NO feelings, NO emotions for ME!..."

Vicenzo:  "Oh, No! Santa Lucia!"

Ramona:  "It's true... Which is why I NEED to know that YOU love me. Only you, for only ME!...?"

Vicenzo:  "Of course, my turtle dove. It is YOU that I love. ONLY you. My illegal garbage disposal business? For it? I care NOT!"

Ramona:  "But THAT is what Francesca says!!!...?"

Vicenzo:  "She? Francesca? What does she say?"

Ramona:  "She says you are enviromentally apathetic, ergo, if your emotions do NOT extend to the love of the Planet, how can you have genuine feelings for another;  for ME?"

Vicenzo:  "Ha! Sweet, bello bambino..."

Ramona:  "So?"

Vicenzo:  "So, mio Cuaro?"

Ramona:  "...What we were talking about!...?"

Vicenzo:  "Ha! Si, my dove. Alluri!... Well, er? -Without my illegal garbage disposal business I could NOT afford to buy you expensive fur coats."

Ramona:   "I know."

Vicenzo:  "...Your grande, downtown appartmento!..."

Ramona:   "I know."

Vicenzo:   "...The Alfa-Romeo."

Ramona:   "I know."

Vicenzo:   "...Front row tickets to La Scala!..."

Ramona:   "I know."

Vicenzo:   "...Caviar for breakfast..."

Ramona:   "I know."

Vicenzo:   "...Money for the..."

Ramona:  "BASTA!!!"

Vicenzo:   "...I know."

(Short silence)

Vicenzo:   "How OLD is Francesca,  this day?"

Ramona:  "She's 13."

Vicenzo:  "Sooooo young....and yet...?"

Ramona:  "She an emancipated adult!"

Vicenzo:  "Ha!"

Ramona: "...By Court Order!"

Vicenzo:   "Capito. Si. Capito... And she has NO feelings for her bellissimo Mamma...?"

Ramona:  "Not one."

Vicenzo:   "Idioti!"

Ramona:   "Si."

Vicenzo:  "Then let us embrace!"

Ramona:  "Vicenzo!"

Vicenzo:  "Ramona! Mio cuaro!"

(They hug, kiss, then BOTH click on their seperate Cell phones and commence talking to OTHER people)

...."AS THE WORLD BURNS...."



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