Your dose of Italian pop culture

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Other than the fact that everyone in Rome was carrying a copy of Dan Brown's Il codice da Vinci--newly translated into Italian--the funniest thing I saw there was a game show that seemed to play every night of the week, with a "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" theme, replete with inventive props and monkey suits (see image). Even though I could never quite figger out what was going on, I was rapt.