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Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino's 'E' Stata La Mano Di Dio' on Tuesday got three nominations for the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars. The bittersweet autobiographical work on growing up in Naples amid adulation for soccer superstar Diego Maradona is up for best film, best director and best screenplay. It is the only Italian fi...

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For those like me who are not particularly familiar with the world of jewelry, which is also such a fundamental part of the production in which Italy has always excelled, it was curious to verify Maria Teresa Cannizzaro's passion and knowledge for the world of bijoux. A world that I do not know, but that I have learned to appreciate by being in the...

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Do you remember The Incredible Hulk? Lou Ferrigno, performer of the character, turns 70 today. An American actor and bodybuilder, he has also appeared in many U.S. television shows, movies and television dramas, including Man of Steel, Sinbad of the Seven Seas and Hercules. F errigno was born from Matthew, a New York police lieutenant and second ge...

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Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer renowned for his stretch jeans and animal prints, is getting the biopic treatment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Filmmaking duo Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi have optioned Cavalli’s life rights from the man himself, with their Iervolino Lady Bacardi Entertainment banner having acquired the r...

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The XXI edition of New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival, November 12-20. FREE Streaming in New York State November 12-20 on Eventive.org. CLICK HERE for the full list of films. This year N.I.C.E. gets into the usual rendezvous of November with an innovative and renewed formula, which builds on the trials launched during the pandemic....

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Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions has contacted Connecticut native John Scully, a former boxer and longtime trainer. Scully is training Band of Brothers actor James Madio to play Willie Pep, the late great featherweight champion who grew up in Hartford and Middletown. The Iceman, John Scully won Outstanding Boxer awards in 1987 and 1988 an...

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If you thought Lady Gaga was committed to her Oscar-nominated role of Ally in 2018's A Star Is Born, just wait. The 35-year-old multi-hyphenate detailed her method process for embodying Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott's forthcoming unauthorized biographical drama House of Gucci as the latest cover star of British Vogue. "It is three years since I...

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Italy celebrates Monica Vitti, the much-loved Italian actress, who was born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome on 3 November 1931. Vitti, whose career began in theatre in the 1950s before she burst onto the big screen, has long been out of the spotlight due to a serious degenerative illness. The legendary actress is best known for her roles in films di...

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The world of American entertainment has a history that is truly full of Italian American talents, in every field. When it comes to music, there are many singers who have brought up the pride of Italian immigrants who have seen in the success of these great artists also a sense of pride for their origins, often described without respect and with man...

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The famous leather jacket worn by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky has been put up for auction. In March 1975, struggling Italian-American actor Stallone watched a heavyweight boxing bout between little-known club boxer Chuck Wepner, and world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. After watching the fight Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky in 3 days,...

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