Travel Guides (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
If you ever traveled in desert or in hot countries by noon, you understand better what is shadow and water and coolness: it is really a wonder. I always have this wonderful feeling when drinking water being thirsty. A modern fountain build in the middle of a city is much more than that! Combined with the [...]
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
Lucio Fulci's A Cat in the Brain (which was previously announced and canceled a while back) will make its Region1 debut from Grindhouse Releasing. Umberto Lenzi's Fatty Girl Goes to New York [ Cicciabomba ], which co-stars Anita Ekberg, and Joe D'Amato's Top Girl will be MYA Communications' two releases. here! Films/Liberation Entertainment will be releasing four titles in March: Rosser Goodman's Holding...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Ingmar Bergman, Björn Borg (naturally), then Anita Ekberg and her fabulous chest ... giant photographs of these celebrated Swedes, and many more, are plastered patriotically on the walls of the pristine arrivals hall at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
What happened to the image of Scandinavia as the frigid tundra of hot sex?
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Rome - Rome's Cafe de Paris, a symbol of the Dolce Vita as immortalized by filmmaker Federico Fellini, has been bought by a Calabrian mafia crime family, a newspaper reported Wednesday, citing a police report. The Alvaro-Palamra clan of the 'Ndranghe...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
For Philip Larkin the annus mirabilis was 1963 when "sexual intercourse began". But Rome was a couple of jumps ahead, and this month Italy is celebrating the start of the "Dolce Vita" years which began, all agree, 50 years ago this month, in November 1958, with an impromptu striptease in a Roman trattoria.
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
FEDERICO Fellini's classic film La Dolce Vita is approaching the half-century mark and the director's hometown is pulling out the stops to give it a Felliniesque two-y
The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
"You can even make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed," Winston Churchill told Yousuf Karsh, after the young Armenian photographer captured the British prime minister in all of his glory in 1941. The prized portrait hangs beside dozens...
Hellomagazine.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The singer gave a show-stopping performance in front of Rome's most recognisable landmark to promote her upcoming tour of ItalyPhoto: © Rexclick on photos to enlarge "If I don't dance, I seize up," says the once wheelchair-bound entertainerPhoto: © RexLiza stages her own 'La Dolce Vita' moment at the Trevi fountainStanding in the same spot where Anita Ekberg famously cavorted for the 1960 drama La...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
•Actress Anita Ekberg is 77. •Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 73. •Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is 66.
Shrine of the Holy Whapping (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
It all started with an Indian rhinoceros. My fascination with Albrecht Dürer goes back to a little story I read in one of my first-grade exercise books about the engraver's wildly inaccurate and imaginative rendering of a tame rhino picked up by the Portuguese fidalgo Afonso de Albuquerque. The German never actually saw the animal and relied mostly on written descriptions. The thing had died off the...
The Final Score (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
North of the border they have their own wishy/washy superstar who is holding teams hostage with a will he play/will he retire soap opera. Apparently, longtime Toronto Maple Leaf captain Mats Sundin gave an interview in Sweden in which...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Movie review: "Elsa & Fred," Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale's sentimental salute to Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," stars China Zorrilla as an 82-year-old woman who's obsessed with the Trevi Fountain sequence.
Much of a muchness (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
I was watching TV yesterday evening. There was a news summary at 8pm with breaking news - earthquake in Los Angeles. Now you may not know this but #2 son is in LA at the moment, staying with his dad - cue moment of panic. Yes, I know that they said there were no casualties [...]
The Moment (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
A new exhibition in Berlin zooms in on zooming in on candid celebrity cameras....
