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Italy chooses 'Beautiful Thing' in Oscar race

8:47 AM PDT 9/29/2010 by Eric J. Lyman, AP

Paolo Virzi's melancholy comedy 'La Prima Cosa Bella'

ROME -- "La Prima Cosa Bella" (The First Beautiful Thing), a melancholy comedy about a professor who returns home to take care of his dying mother, was selected Wednesday as Italy's official candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.

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