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La passione per la buona cucina italiana e i suoi prodotti a volte si trasforma in business. Lo sanno bene i protagonisti del luccicante mondo di Hollywood che si scoprono o si improvvisano imprenditori nel campo della ristorazione o dell'alimentazione.Tra gli esempi più noti la leggenda del rock Sting che nel 2009 ha acquistato un agriturismo in T...

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By Jeff Eydt Winfield Street Italian Deli will be giving Norwalk an offer it can't refuse when they hold a viewing of The Godfather at the Maritime Aquarium's IMAX theater, located at 10 N. Water St., on March 19. Proceeds will be going to the Maritime Aquarium and the Italian-American Police Society of Southern Connecticut.   "The Italian-...

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By Todd VanDerWerff   Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Patton, announced at the Produced By conference that he is writing "a multi-generational saga about an Italian American family not unlike his own," as per Variety. This would be new subject matter for the director, who is primarily known for his work in the...

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If you have seen the Godfather, the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece, you will remember the scene of the Sicilian wedding of Michael Corleone and the following scene with the car explosion that murdered Apollonia the Italian bride of the young Michael.   The atmosphere in that scene is so intense thanks to the place where the scene was filme...

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With its elegant frescoes, delicate sweeps of cerise and violet bougainvillea and vast beds covered in pristine white linen, Palazzo Margherita is a palace fit for Hollywood royalty. But this is a far cry from your average star-studded holiday spot. Instead, the pretty 19th century palazzo is owned and run by one of modern cinema's greats - direct...

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by Colleen Clark   It could be anytime between noon and four, and my stomach grumbles. I pad barefoot down the cool marble stairs and pop into the kitchen at the Palazzo Margherita, in southern Italy. I raid plates of cheese, smear hunks of bread in jam, ask for sweets and leftover tangerine juice, even though dinner's fresh pastas and sauce...

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by George Dickie   Popular movie lore has it that director Francis Ford Coppola and/or Paramount originally wanted James Caan for Michael Corleone, the role that would become a career-making turn for Al Pacino, in the 1972 mob classic "The Godfather."   But the now-73-year-old Caan, who begins a four-episode arc on Starz's "Magic City...

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Francis Ford Coppola has launched an ambitious "Distant Vision" project as a "live cinema" experiment at his alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Coppola unveiled details of the multi-year project at a news conference Saturday, following his month-long collaboration with 75 UCLA students and faculty on "Distant Vision,"...

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With the exception of Louis Zamperini in 2014 "Unbroken", it has been almost impossible to find Italian American positive characters in the Hollywood storytelling of last decades. While Italian Americans have proved their talent and their hardworking attitude with an exceptional positive contribution to American society, economy, culture in any pos...

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By Wendy Ide Francis Ford Coppola's next film may be his last. But it may also be one of his most ambitious. Speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival (Dec 4-12), the 76-year-old director of The Godfather trilogy revealed details of the new multi-generational Italian-American saga he is developing, titled Distant Vision.  ...

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