A colorful and flamboyant producer, Dino De Laurentiis has produced a remarkable range of motion pictures ranging from art-house fare (e.g., Fellini's "La Strada" 1954), camp classics ("Barbarella" 1968), overblown spectacles ("Tai Pan" 1986) and popular entertainments ("Hannibal" 2001). In all, he has either financed, produced or distributed over 600 movies and with the dawn of the new millennium and his seventh decade in the industry, he has shown no inclination of stopping.Born near Naples, Italy, De Laurentiis entered his father's pasta business while still a teenager, but the idea of
