Editing Federico Fellini (section)

===Rome (1939)===
In September 1939, he enrolled in [[law school]] at the [[Sapienza University of Rome]] to please his parents. Biographer [[Hollis Alpert]] reports that "there is no record of his ever having attended a class".{{sfn|Alpert|1988|p=33}} Installed in a family ''pensione'', he met another lifelong friend, the painter Rinaldo Geleng. Desperately poor, they unsuccessfully joined forces to draw sketches of restaurant and café patrons. Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on the dailies ''Il Piccolo'' and ''Il Popolo di Roma'', but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments.

Four months after publishing his first article in ''[[Marc'Aurelio]]'', the highly influential biweekly humour magazine, he joined the editorial board, achieving success with a regular column titled ''But Are You Listening?''.{{sfn|Kezich|2006|p=31}} Described as "the determining moment in Fellini's life",{{sfn|Bondanella|2002|p=8}} the magazine gave him steady employment between 1939 and 1942, when he interacted with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters. These encounters eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema. Among his collaborators on the magazine's editorial board were the future director [[Ettore Scola]], [[Marxist]] theorist and scriptwriter [[Cesare Zavattini]], and [[Bernardino Zapponi]], a future Fellini screenwriter. Conducting interviews for ''CineMagazzino'' also proved congenial: when asked to interview [[Aldo Fabrizi]], Italy's most popular variety performer, he established such immediate personal rapport with the man that they collaborated professionally. Specializing in humorous monologues, Fabrizi commissioned material from his young protégé.{{sfn|Kezich|2006|p=55}}