San Salvatore di Fitalia isn't just ANY old place in Sicily.

Where's your thread about your trip? (I will be getting off the computer soon--will have more time in the evening.)

Which trip? I asked for suggestions for Labor Day here:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34640815

At the end, I mentioned I bought my ticket for Bologna.

I'm spending the coming long weekend in Paris (actually flying to London for $500 and then taking the train).

Wow, 111op, you have some nice travel plans!

Someone else take a turn for puzzle,plz.

I must say that I wish I were going to Bologna tomorrow. But two months will go by very quickly. :-)

Paris this weekend ain't too shabby :-)

True. I'll be able to forget the train ride when I get into Paris. :-)

Just wish tickets were cheaper, but well, it's good to save money. It's already decadent enough to do these long weekend trips.

There's no clue, so I'll give one.

Clue: Name this movie (2 words: 3, 6), directed by (2 words: 5, 5), which is the movie behind a famous US Supreme Court case on ("genre": 11).

In a famous opinion, one Supreme Court defines what qualifies as "genre" (in his view).

Hint: The movie features a famous actress who would act again as a free-spirited woman in yet another movie where two men both fall in love with her.

Sorry -- one Supreme Court *justice* defines....

movie: Les Amants

director: Louis Malle

Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), in which Potter Stewart said about pornography that he knows it when he sees it.

Yes, that's right. I guess your law degree comes through, cmt. :-)

I saw this last week. I found it a little silly and was surprised to find that it was the basis for the famous Potter Stewart utterance.

So it's good for something at least?

I forgot that it's my turn.

This singer song writer and cabaret owner who insulted his audience for fun was portrayed in posters wearing a red scarf. First name has 8 letters; last name has 6 letters of which the 4th is the "a" from Jacobellis.

The name that he gave his cabaret has 8 letters, of which the 3rd is the "r" from pornography.

It was previously the location of another cabaret, which moved to a different location. That other cabaret had a two-part name, totalling 8 letters (excluding words like "the"). The penultimate is the "i" from Ohio.

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/toulouse/stars.shtm

Aristide Bruant
Le Chat Noir

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Bruant

Le Mirliton

Powerful and famous family (6 letters), based in this city (8 letters), whose influence even extended beyond the secular to the (6 letters).

Several members of the family are portrayed in a painting called (4 words, 9, 2, 3, 4), which also includes a purported self-portrait by the artist (10) on the lower right corner.

To make it easier for you to search the artist, the first letter of the artist is "b," from Bruant.

Medici
Florence
Church
Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi

Yes. A minor quibble -- was thinking of "from the secular to the papacy."

I only just found out that the family gave rise to three (I think) popes. First one is Leo X.

ttt for cmt.

This country (7 letters) was particularly resistant to the anti-Semitic policies of the occupying Nazis. It saved many Jews by transporting them to (6 letters). Even German authorities stationed in this country (the one in the first clue) acted somewhat independently after living there a while and sabotaged some of their orders. For example, General (two words in last name 3letters and 9 letters; 6th letter of second word is C from Medici) of Germany, after living in this country (see first clue) refused to put troops at the disposal of Dr. (first name 6 letters, ending with the R from Florence; last name 4 letters), the Reich’s plenipotentiary in this occupied country. Even the latter person may have eventually become less than zealous in carrying out some of the Nazis policies.

I think it's Denmark and Sweden, but I need to fill in the rest of the blanks.

I read about this before my trip to Scandinavia.

Fortunately with a word like "plenipotentiary" it's easy to look up Dr. Werner Best:

http://www.answers.com/topic/occupation-of-denmark

There's a General von Hanneken from this link, but Hanneken has 8 letters.

http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/En.../kap6/6-15.asp

I'm giving up for now. I think that we've been pretty lenient about people not solving a whole clue anyway, no? :-)