In the new comedy Mafia Mamma, out this week, Toni Collette vamps it up and brings the laughs as an American woman who is forced to take over the family crime business in Italy after her estranged grandfather dies. She wastes no time confirming that filming on location in the Eternal City was as glorious as it looks on screen. “Just being in Rome w...

Sister Blandina Segale was an Italian immigrant who came to the Wild West town of Trinidad, Colorado, at the age of only 22. Amid her efforts to start schools and hospitals, she intervened against lynch mobs, conversed with outlaws, and lived such a life that she is now a candidate for sainthood. Her life and the history of 1870s Trinidad have insp...

Let's keep rolling in our journey through the lives of some "special" Christian people, some Italians who have responded 100% to The Call. As anticipated in the introduction to Part one, for their work in the world, Christians always identify themselves and act as sons and daughters of God the Father, who generates them in spiritual life (through B...

Francesca Cappucci, who spent more than a decade as a popular entertainment and music reporter at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, has died. She was 64. Cappucci died March 30 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena after being diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer in July, her older son, Ian Lyndon, told The Hollywood Reporter. She never smoked and “was...

Whenever Paul Sorvino spotted a veteran at a bar or restaurant, he was determined to say thank you. The actor, known for playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in "Goodfellas" and NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on "Law & Order," passed away in 2022 at age 83. His wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, was by his side. Nearly a year after his passing, Dee Dee is de...

Tony Danza was brought to tears while learning about the struggles his maternal grandfather endured on his journey to become a U.S. citizen during an appearance on Season Eight of the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.” While chatting with the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Danza explained how he always thought his grandfather, Antonino Camisa, cam...

At the Consulate General of Italy in New York, at the initiative of Consul General Fabrizio Di Michele, the documentary film Qui Nuova York. America as Told to Italians by Television, by Marco Giudici and Andrea Salvadore, directed by Andrea Salvadore. It is a 90-minute adaptation of a production that aired on Rai channels abroad.Inspiring the work...

You know Andrea Bocelli as the world-class tenor with over 90 million albums sold. But did you know he's a gifted horseback rider too? Audiences learn many things about the star while watching Bocelli’s new three-part film, “The Journey,” in select theaters April 2-4 and April 6. In the film, Bocelli travels on horseback with family, friends and mu...

A 13-year old girl named Lucy moves from California to Rome to start a new life with her dad and stepmom (who happens to be an Italian pop star) in upcoming live action musical TV series “Home Sweet Rome” which reps the first collaboration between HBO and Europe’s top three public broadcasters in the kids space. Based on a concept by “Hannah Montan...

On Monday, September 18, 2023, the 75th Emmy Awards will take place in Los Angeles: the winners, after the presentation of the prestigious statuette in the media center, in front of photographers and national and international press, will toast with Franciacorta. Franciacorta has renewed its partnership with the Television Academy as the Official S...