![]() Much like a scene from one of Fellini’s movies, what seemed authentic and real had turned out to be a flight of the imagination. ![]() In fact, my guide pointed out, the telephone (and most of the other décor of the Grand Hotel Rimini) had been replaced since Fellini’s death almost 20 years earlier in 1993. And here, in one corner, was the very telephone that Fellini must have been holding when he collapsed in this room just before his death. In the next room, a padded headboard spanned the bed where the room’s regular resident, the great Italian director Federico Fellini, must have slept next to his wife, the actress Giulietta Masina. On the far wall, the late-afternoon light of the Italian coastline filtered through gauzy curtains, striking the worn velvet seat of an old Empire settee and filling the room with a funereal glow. ![]() Opening with the tiniest click, the door swung wide to reveal the furnishings of a classic Old World grand hotel suite. ![]()
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