I loved that movie ... and the music ... Pucinni ... just glorious. And now, in April, it looks like I will be visiting the Arno myself. The paper that I submitted on behalf of my co-author and myself was accepted to the ACM Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference in 2008. That's the cool part.
The less cool part is that hardly anyone I know is going, so I don't think it'll be like last year's CHI conference, which was a lot of fun because there were half a dozen other folks from my graduate program there. 
So far, I think I'll know 3 people at the conference next year, and only 1 or 2 of them are likely to let me hang out with them (they are pretty illustrious after all). I'm hoping my co-author will go (and give the talk, if she likes)... we had a good time in Aptos. And of course, I'll make a vacation out of it for the family, so I'll spend time with them seeing Italy before or after the conference ... we've never been to Italy before, so it'll be an adventure :)