Roberto Benigni

I love the simplicity of romance as it is portrayed in the movies of Roberto Benigni.  My dad took me to "Life is Beautiful" when it was first in theaters.  I must have been eleven or twelve, and even though I was still very much afraid of girls, which meant that I hadn't even begun to think about a family of my own, the film left an impression.  More recently, I saw the movie "The Tiger and the Snow," which, in its own way, is just as tragic and surreal as "Life is Beautiful."  Is it strange, then, that the real-life Roerto Benigni conducts himself as I imagine he would if he were one of his character on a visit to New York?