B6 PETULA DVORAK The saddest reminder of the stigma ofmental health care dvorak from B1


Grandma was either pure evil, or she had some mental health issues. If unfiltered evil drove this,


my guess is that it would’ve manifested itself at some point in her 50 years on this Earth long before an evening at the shopping mall. Neighbors said Dela Rosa


seemed like a “loving, doting” grandmother and a vital community member. It’s more likely that there was


a mental illness eating away at her that was not being properly treated. Investigators told The Post


that there was not one precipitating factor that led to the incident, but they confirmed that Dela Rosa had been wrangling with mental health issues. Her public defender agreed. “We have just begun the


investigation, and we are seriously investigating her mental health issues and the battles she’s had with mental health over the last several years,” said Dawn M. Butorac, deputy Fairfax public defender. Friends said they sawthe


clouds gathering. “She was nearing a nervous breakdown,” one said. It’s a threat frequently ignored


in a country where mental health care is stigmatized and too often discounted. That’s especially true in the region’s growing immigrant population. Dela Rosa is from the Philippines, and a family member told The Post that she was recently upset because she couldn’t go there for funeral services after her brother died. That’s one of the biggest


hurdles Crawford tries to overcome in Gaithersburg: getting people in immigrant communities to address their


mental health. “We are seeing a tremendous


amount of trauma in immigrant communities. Sometimes it’s the trauma of violent things they witnessed in their home countries, or the trauma of getting here, then the trauma of being here. Some of the trauma is really tragic and horrific,” she told me. “They miss their families, their culture.” And opening up those old


psychic wounds while trying to fit into a newculture and society could be especially damaging. “And there’s a huge stigma to


it,” Crawford added. That was partly the case of 23-


year-old SeungHui Cho, who battled with mental illness and the stigma it carried in his Korean community before he massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 and then killed himself. People who knewDela Rosa


said she appeared depressed. “But depression looks


different in different cultures,” Crawford said. In some cultures, sleeping all day and withdrawing might not be seen as a medical problem. Her agency has received


several small grants to try to address the mental health of the region’s immigrant population and the recession’s increasing strain on them. Four years ago, Family


Services had 500 clients for mental health services. Today, it has 1,200, she said. More people need to acknowledge that the afflictions that lurk inside our heads, our homes and our families can be more pernicious than the stranger-danger threats that consume so much of our time, energy and money. Little Angelyn deserves that


from the rest of us. E-mail me at dvorakp@washpost.com.


MARIOMONICELLI,95 Oscar-nominated director, influential in Italian comedies BY ALESSANDRA RIZZO MarioMonicelli, 95, an Oscar-


nominated director and screen- writer who was considered one of the fathers of the Italian comedy of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, died Nov. 29 after jumping from a fifth-story hospital win- dow in Rome. He was being treated for a


terminal pancreatic ailment be- fore leaping to his death, a hospital spokeswoman said. The acclaimed “Big Deal on


Madonna Street,” the black-and- white classic released in 1958, describes the adventures of a few poor devils organizing a big-time heist that ends up going awry. The movie stars Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Italian comic icon Toto. Mr. Monicelli’s 1959 movie


“The Great War” tells the tragi- comical story of two young Ital- ians — played by Gassman and Alberto Sordi—who try to avoid going to the front during World War I. The film, by some considered


Mr. Monicelli’s finest work and the best Italian comedy of all, was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language movie and earned Mr. Monicelli a presti- gious Golden Lion at the Venice FilmFestival. “This movie contaminates


historical tragedy with the clas- sicmotifs of Italian comedy, thus desecrating a topic—WorldWar Imassacres — thatwas still taboo for nation-


al cinema,” said Italian critic PaoloMereghetti. Whether set in the Middle


Ages, World Wars or modern times, Mr. Monicelli’s characters captured the best and the worst of Italians, embodying igno- rance, cowardice, generosity and courage in unequal doses. “We [Italians] have remained the same after all,”Mr.Monicelli,


BURTONHOFFMAN,81


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District journalist had second career as political consultant BY T. REES SHAPIRO Burton Hoffman, 81, a Wash-


ington journalist for two decades who became editor in chief of National Journal magazine in the mid-1970s and had a second career onCapitolHill and abroad as a political and economic con- sultant, died of lung cancer Nov. 17 in ChiangMai, Thailand. He owned a restaurant in the


northern Thai city and had lived there intermittently for the past three years. Mr. Hoffman moved to the


Washington area in 1955 andwas a reporter and editor with Con- gressional Quarterly before join- ing theWashington Star in 1958. He spent 14 years at the news-


paper, including stints on the city, national and foreign desks, and was promoted to assistant managing editor in 1968. During the 1972 presidential


campaign,Mr.Hoffman left jour- nalismto serve as press secretary for R. Sargent Shriver, a running mate of Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), the unsuccessful Demo- cratic nominee. Afterward,Mr. Hoffman spent


two years as the top editor of National Journal. Mr. Hoffman started a 10-year


career in politics in 1975, first as an adviser for then-U.S. House majority whip John Brademas


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Issue close: Friday, December 3, 2010 A634 2x8 ALFREDMASINI,80 Creator of ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ ‘Star Search,’ ‘Solid Gold’


BY VALERIE J. NELSON Alfred Masini, 80, a key figure


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in the development of non-net- work programming who created such hit television shows as “En- tertainment Tonight” and “Life- styles of the Rich and Famous,” died Nov. 30 in Honolulu from complications of melanoma. When Mr. Masini had several


popular syndicated TV shows on theair in 1984,heplayeddownhis creativity, tellingTheWashington Post: “I work on the premise that there are no new, unique ideas.” From television’s earliest days,


Mr. Masini mined “The Original AmateurHour” with TedMack to come up with “Star Search,” a talent contest that ran from 1983 to 1995. “Your Hit Parade” had been off the radio and television airwaves for most of two decades when he conceived “SolidGold,” a 1980s weekly countdown of musi- cal hits. “All of my ideas come from


studying what’s not on the air,” Mr. Masini told the New York Times in 1986. “My attitude has always been to look for what’s missing.” “EntertainmentTonight”—the


breezy celebrity news show that turned 30 this year — was in- spired by the success of People magazine and TV Guide when there was nothing like those pub- licationsontelevision,Mr.Masini said in the Post interview. To ensure that “Entertainment


Tonight” would be timely, Mr. Masini pioneered the use of satel- lites to transmit the syndicated program, according to the Times article. The over-the-top “Lifestyles of


the Rich and Famous,” hosted by Robin Leach, aired from 1984 to 1996 — and tapped into society’s burgeoning fascination with ce- lebrity. “ ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and


Famous’ struck a piece of the American soul that was about to start flowering in so many ways,”


said Robert Thompson, a profes- sor of television and pop culture at SyracuseUniversity. By expanding programming in


what was then a new era of first- run syndication, Mr. Masini helped television move away from the network model before the cable era took hold, Thomp- son said. The accomplishment included


Operation Prime Time, another pioneering effort that sought to produce quality television films for independent stations around the country between 1976 and 1987. Shows included the minise- ries “A Woman Called Golda” (1982), with Ingrid Bergman, and “Sadat” (1983), starring Louis Gossett Jr. Alfred Michael Masini was


born Jan. 5, 1930, in Jersey City. The second of two children, he was raised by a widowed mother. After earning a bachelor’s de-


gree at Fordham University in 1952, he served in the Air Force during theKoreanWar.


In 1954, he joined the CBS-TV


library in New York as a film editor and left two years later to work for an advertising firm. Mr.Masini helped start


TeleRep in New York City in 1968 to sell advertisements for client television stations. The firm grew to represent hundreds of stations, according to his publicist, and entered the TV programming business. A year after retiring from


TeleRep in 1993, Mr. Masini moved to Hawaii and built a mountaintophomewith a viewof DiamondHead. At 71, he married his fourth


wife, Charlyn Honda Masini, 29, in a celebrity-studded spectacle worthy of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” The 2001 wedding and reception followed a 40-page script and began precisely on time, aMasini trademark. Survivors include his wife and


his sister. —Los Angeles Times


man (D-Calif.). Mr. Hoffman joined the Hill &


Knowlton public relations firm in 1985 as a senior vice president and started his consulting career. He spent nearly four years in


Indonesia, working with that country’s government to gener- ate foreign investors and eco- nomic development. He also did consulting work with the U.S. Agency for International Devel- opment in Ukraine. He retired to Newport, R.I.,


where he spentmuch of his time sailing. Burton Hoffman was born


June 28, 1929, in New York. He joined the Army in the late 1940s and served in South Korea as a member of a military police unit guarding enemy prisoners. He received a commendation


for helping to quell a prison rebellion by shooting an inmate who tried to start a riot. He attended the University of


Rhode Island, where he worked on the student newspaper before starting his journalism career at small newspapers in New York. Hismarriage toDiane Thomp-


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BurtonHoffman, above in 1976, spent two decades as a journalist and started a 10-year career in politics in 1975.


(D-Ind.). After Brademas left of- fice in 1981,Mr.Hoffman became an adviser to Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.). Three years later, he


became the administrative assis- tant to the chairman of the House health and environment subcommittee, Henry A. Wax-


son ended in divorce. Survivors include two children, Jean Hoff- man of Peaks Island, Maine, and Carl Hoffman of Washington; a sister; a brother; and five grand- children.


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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010


ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE MarioMonicelli, right with actorMarcelloMastroianni, earned aGolden Lion for “The GreatWar.”


then 91, said in 2006 upon re- lease of his last movie, “Le Rose nel Deserto” (“Desert Roses”). “We don’t want to be heroes, but if we must die, we do so without making too big a deal of it.” The movie — depicting the


lives of Italian soldiers stationed in Libya during World War II — marked a return to the theme of conflict almost 50 years after “The GreatWar.” Mr. Monicelli was born in


Viareggio, a seaside town in Tuscany, onMay 15, 1915. His first notable work came in


the late 1940s when he co-direct- ed Toto in a number of successful movies, including the bitter- sweet “Guardie e Ladri” (known as “Cops and Robbers”) in 1951. The 1963 movie “I Compagni” (”The Organizer”), starring Mas-


troianni as a professor stirring up unionismin industrial north- ern Italy,wonMr.Monicelli,who also co-wrote the film, an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay. Another Academy Award


nomination for best foreign lan- guagemovie came for “La Ragaz- za con la Pistola” (known as “Girl with a Pistol”), released five years later and starring Monica Vitti as a Sicilian girl traveling to swinging London to kill her unfaithful lover. Over the course of a career


that spanned five decades and over 60 films, Mr. Monicelli col- lected some huge hits. “L’Armata Brancaleone” (”For


Love and Gold”), released in 1966, follows the adventures of an unlikely group of men in the


Middle Ages led by a pompous knight played byGassman in one of hismost famous roles. In themid-1970s, “AmiciMiei”


(known as “My Friends”) again highlights Mr. Monicelli’s skills in mixing humor and bitterness in a tale of middle-aged friends who spend their lives organizing sophisticated pranks as a way to deal with failure, loneliness


and the prospect of death. A decade later, Mr. Monicelli


looked at female friendship in a movie about the role of women in today’s family and society, “Speriamo Che Sia Femmina” (“Let’s Hope It’s a Girl”), with an all-star cast including Catherine Deneuve, Liv Ullman and Stefa- nia Sandrelli.


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