He shook hands, was slapped on the back, and created small-talk.He entered the Odyssey personifying royalty, and oozing macho sexual virility, horniness and arrogance.Otto Hasslein (Eric Braeden), was asked what was expected from the historic meeting and he simply replied: "Fear...After the group of men at the table mocks her and drowns her out with a crass version of the songSend Word to Mother("Let""s break the news to Mother, and tell her there""s no other.On the weekend, he ritualistically joined his gang of loutish, uneducated, trash-talking, unredemptive, pill-popping and unambitious friends and regulars.)and Luchino Visconti""s first feature - the unauthorizedOssessione (1943, It.)with the setting transferred to Fascist Italy.A fourth, present day re-make, with cruder sex scenes between drifter Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, was director Bob Rafelson""s 1981 rendition.