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Monica Bellucci is in the cast of the reboot of cult TV series Twin peaks, which will screen in 2017, Showtime said Tuesday. Bellucci, who last appeared in James Bond film Spectre, will join a star-studded cast including Naomi Watts, Richard Chamberlain, Jim Belushi, Michael Cera and Amanda Seyfried. They join series veterans including Kyle M...

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A&E introduced four new reality programs to its lineup before its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York last tonight.   One of the new reality series, "Godfather of Pittsburgh," puts the cameras on Vince Isoldi, an Italian-American who owns an empire of nightclubs and restaurants in the Steel City, where he has made friends and...

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If you had a normal first conversation with Michael Benzaia, he would tell you that he is just a regular Italian-American guy from New York. However, as someone who is both an actor/television personality and a CT/XR Technologist at Resolution Imaging in Santa Monica, he is living the LA life in a most unique way.   "I might be the only CT/X...

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"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro and his family are hitting the road for an 8-episode Food Network special in which they will eat their way across the Southeast.   "Buddy's Family Vacation," which premieres May 27 at 8 p.m., follows Buddy, wife Lisa and their four kids as they RV from their home in New Jersey down the Eastern Seaboard and into the...

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Non parleremo di scoop per amor di sobrietà, ma sappiate che Tmz lo farebbe. Da una fonte anonima vicina a Joe Bastianich, abbiamo saputo che il protagonista di Giuseppino, biografia scritta insieme alla nostra Sara Porro, ha lasciato Masterchef Usa, il cooking reality originale condotto insieme a Gordon Ramsay e Graham Elliot, a cui sono ispirate...

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This past week marked the premiere of the new season of the popular PBS television series Genealogy Roadshow. The show, part detective story and part emotional journey, combines history and science to uncover fascinating stories of diverse Americans.   This season, the show follows a diverse cast of participants on an emotional journey...

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by Karl Terry   He might have been an Italian from Raton at the core, but he became a true Portalesano long before his life in the desert ran out on Aug. 20 at age 81. I really didn't know Tony Gennaro closely, but like a lot of other people who got acquainted with him, if you chatted with him once you felt like old friends. When you sa...

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Once again, the Italian American One Voice Coalition finds it necessary to bring the perpetuation of negative stereotypes and defamation of Italian Americans to the public's attention.   A&E-TV's latest and most disgraceful "reality" series to date, "The Godfather of Pittsburgh," is a meritless, crass and apparently heavily scripted show...

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Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Italy reunites the faux on-screen personalities of comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. It is light fare rooted in fine cuisine and the duo's off-the-wall impressions as they dine that range from world renown personalities to uniquely British figures that only a smidgen of a broader audience might truly apprecia...

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Antonia Lofaso is chef and partner at Scopa Italian Roots in Venice and at Black Market Liquor Bar in Studio City, but she started her culinary career making corn dogs at Hot Dog on a Stick in the Sherman Oaks Galleria and as a host at Chin Chin in Studio City. Before graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York City, she was also a ma...

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