Rome Braces for the ‘Dan Brown Effect’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.26.08 | 12:03 PM ET
What does it mean when a world-class city like Rome looks to a big budget movie with a big American star to boost tourism? And what if that movie, “Angels and Demons,” the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code,” allegedly undermines the Roman Catholic Church? As Tom Hanks and company finish filming the movie based on Dan Brown’s book, those questions are being debated in Rome—and in the pages of the New York Times.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.
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