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Frank Pesce, a colorful character actor whose dozens of credits range from Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Midnight Run to Miami Vice, Matlock and Kojak, has died. He was 75. His girlfriend Tammy Scher told Deadline that Pesce died February 6 in Burbank of dementia complications.  Born on December 8, 1946, in New York City, Pesce put the “character”...

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Sky has released the official trailer for their upcoming eight-part Italian drama ‘The King’. Directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi (‘1992’, ‘1993’, ‘1994’, ‘Non Uccidere’), ‘The King’ will air on Sky Atlantic and TV streaming service NOW in April, reinforcing Sky’s commitment to providing customers with premium original drama from across Europe. ‘The Kin...

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On February 2nd Italy lost a queen, the queen of Italian cinema. Maria Luisa Ceciarelli, the real name of Monica Vitti, died at the age of 90 years, after a long-suffering period of disease that made her retire from the scenes for almost 20 years now. Monica Vitti was born in 1931. She studied acting at the academy and began her career as an actres...

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Remember the days when you couldn’t connect to the internet while placing a phone call? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Whichever it is, your response will shape your take on your memories of being young. But, now that millennials — the last witnesses of a world without technology — are getting older and older, their biases are taking over entertain...

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Anyone who has seen an episode of "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy," on CNN knows that Stanley Tucci is not easily ruffled. He looks eternally cool with his black-framed glasses, perfectly tailored suits, and crisp white shirts (often with not one, not two, but three or more buttons undone). One can imagine Tucci saying something like, "Pardon m...

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The prestigious Emmy Award assigned in the United States by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, equivalent to an Oscar for television journalism, was given to Filippo Ferretti, anchor man for Univisiòn, who currently lives and works in New York but is from Florence. Filippo Ferretti was awarded the Emmy Award for having conducted a journalis...

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During the throes of the pandemic, in winter 2021, beloved Italian-American actor, producer, cookbook author, and food enthusiast, Stanley Tucci, took viewers on a virtual culinary journey to Italy on his six-episode CNN series.  What an escape! The heartthrob lifted our spirits with his jaunts to different regions of Italy, introducing us to many...

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Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" is one of the all-time classic mob movies, and it's frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. The making of "The Godfather" was notoriously tricky, as Hollywood was skeptical about gangster movies in the 1970s and the Italian-American community was fighting back against some of the unsavory dep...

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Last year, probably also thanks to the restrictions imposed by the Covid pandemic, the popularity, and traffic of the social web and video channels characterized by the brand SalumiAmo opened and managed by the Istituto Valorizzazione Salumi Italiani (IVSI, the Italian deli meats Promotion Institute) has grown considerably. The success with foreign...

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The identification of the true Sicilian origins of Guy Williams, pseudonym of Armando Joseph Catalano (1924-1989), the Italian-American actor who entered the history of cinema as the unforgettable protagonist of the Zorro television series, has been achieved thanks to the young historian Domenico Mazza. Based on the genealogical research carried ou...

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