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Rick Aiello, son of the remembered Danny Aiello, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at a hospital in upstate New York. He was 65 years old and an actor, like his father. Aiello worked in more than sixty movies and series, the most remembered of which is Do the Right Thing, by Spike Lee, in which he appeared alongside his father. For that 1989 classic...

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Gina Marinelli was already well on her way to becoming one of the city’s favorite chefs and Italian food specialists before she opened La Strega in Summerlin more than two years ago. Now the rest of the world has the chance to learn about her culinary skills thanks to an exciting new competition show streaming on the Discovery+ network. The Globe i...

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Raffaella is no more. For everyone "la Carrà", with the accent on the last a, as she emphasized to David Letterman in an interview in 1986. On July 5, 2021 died the most important woman in the history of Italian entertainment, by far, who for decades exported the best face of our country abroad. It is no coincidence that she was particularly succes...

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Raffaella Carrà, the Italian singer, dancer, actress and popular television host, has died aged 78. Carrà died on the afternoon of 5 July following an illness that she kept private, announced her former partner and long-time collaborator Sergio Japino. "Raffaella has left us" - said Japino - "She went to a better world, where her humanity, her unmi...

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After more than two decades as a college basketball coach, Fran Fraschilla  is sharing his wealth of expertise as an analyst for ESPN. Growing up the oldest of seven children in Brooklyn, New York, Fran Fraschilla was hooked on basketball at an early age, like most of his peers. What Fraschilla, now 62, didn’t envision as a youngster was that his g...

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Fans of the hit HBO drama "The Sopranos," which aired for six seasons and garnered numerous awards throughout its run, will definitely recognize a few of the characters featured in new trailer for the upcoming prequel film, "The Many Saints of Newark." Vera Farmiga plays a young Livia Soprano, whose relationship with Tony (played as a teenager in t...

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Stanley Tucci and his fans are still reminiscing about his food adventures in Italy. In March, the actor and best-selling cookbook author wrapped up the first season of his original new series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. The 60-year-old Devil Wears Prada star immersed himself in Italian culture and history while traveling through the countr...

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It goes without saying that “The Sopranos” is one of the most beloved and acclaimed television series of all time. Nominated for 111 Primetime Emmy Awards across its eight-year run on HBO, the mafia drama picked up 21 trophies and won twice for Outstanding Drama Series (after being nominated in the top category for every season). Fourteen years aft...

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Earlier this month Italy marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Alfredino Rampi, the little boy who died more than 60 hours after falling down an artesian well in the Roman countryside. Despite the passing of four decades, the story still brings a shudder to Italians old enough to remember the tragedy in Vermicino. In June 1981 the nation was...

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Most travelogues aim to transport viewers (or readers, in the case of travel books) elsewhere. But Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive, the special premiering on PBS stations this month, upends the conventional paradigm of the travelogue. Instead, this show focuses on what people gain from travel and learning about other cultures that can...

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