Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Photos by Eljor Kerciku The new National Museum of the XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome. It may take the nation that invented Fellini to truly embrace Zaha Hadid, the whirlwind architect who is by turns sugar and spitfire. Italians stress the “z” in “Zaha” as they do in “czarina,” and treated her like one during last weekend’s opening festivities for the National...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
A BITTER family feud over the legacy of Gianni Agnelli — the late chairman of Fiat whose lovers included Jacqueline Kennedy — will be fought out in a Turin courtroom this week. At stake are the dynasty’s prestige, a multi-billion-pound fortune and an enormous tax demand.
A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
photo collection of Christoph Schifferli, Zurich, DR of the shooting of La Dolce Vita when the photographers arrive for the star of the film Dear Shaded Viewers, If you live or will visit Paris over the next 2 1/2 months...
You Go Live in Utah (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
(all apologies to the wonderful and potentially batshit crazy Anita Ekberg) The first quarter ends tied up 21-21. Mavs shooting 38%. I'm already impressed with the applause that Barea got when he was sent in. Mavs were 9-9 on free throws. But more disturbing to me was the endless pimping of Twitters and Facebooks. Bob's Twitter. Mark's Facebook. Bob and Mark's broadcast team's Facebook. Skin's Twitter...
DesiPundit (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
IDLE RICH, IDLE TALK OCT 24, 2009 – WHAT MUST HAVE APPEARED the apotheosis of absurdity in 1960, the time of this film’s release, now seem weary truths of modern life – like how the famous star Sylvia (Anita Ekberg) is presented a pizza when ...
Living in Italy (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
ANSA) - Paris, October 22 - The French capital is paying tribute to Italian cinema legend Federico Fellini with a series of initiatives marking the 50th anniversary of ‘La Dolce Vita’. Three months of events are planned, including exhibitions, conferences, debates, a DVD collection and a film fair. The centrepiece of the celebrations is an [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Showbiz Traveler: Rome: Looks of women have memorable place in pics -- Leave it to Fellini to stage an ecclesiastical fashion show.
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
I could get a better-quality version of this picture if I bought it off Ebay, but I'm not a very good memorabilia-buyer. Still, this promotional still from Artists and Models appears to be the only one from the film that features the director, Frank Tashlin. He's talking to Anita Ekberg, in one of only three scenes she has in the movie. And the other two times she appears, I originally wasn't aware...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Step aside, dapper gentlemen of Sterling Cooper. “The Souvenir” was Betty’s episode to shine – if only for that updo, a soft and sweeping tower of golden blond hair. She could’ve wandered onto “La Dolce Vita” and elbowed Anita Ekberg...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Singer Devante Swing of Jodeci is 40. Actor Steve Forrest is 85. Actress Anita Ekberg is 78. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 74. Actor Ian McShane is 67. Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is 67. TV theme composer Mike Post is 65. Actress Patricia Hodge is 63. Guitarist Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly is 61. Singer-guitarist Mark [...]
The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
The great city of Rome has provided a backdrop to some of the most famous moments in cinema history, from screen siren Anita Ekberg's famous dance in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita to Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Revered Fiat tycoon accused of tax evasion and womanising He was the man who ran the Fiat empire for three decades, dated Rita Hayworth and was hailed as Italy's "last true gentleman" when 100,000 turned out for his funeral in 2003. But a bitter inheritance battle between Gianni Agnelli's descendants – often described as Italy's answer to the Kennedy dynasty – has sparked a series...
Indoor Bug Zapper (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Today, it’s a world famous comedy club–The Comedy Store. In the 1940’s and 1950’s it was Ciro’s nightclub and for much of its life was one of the hottest nightspots in the world. From the time that Herman Hover took over management of Ciros in 1942 until it closed in 1959, it was as important to the development of the civilized world as The Sands in Las Vegas. It spawned...
Business World (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Italy is steeped in romanti cism, at least from an outsid er's point of view. The movies, the novels, the Italians themselves, reinforce this idea that, yes, you can travel there and let your hair down and go to extreme lengths in the name of love, and the universe (or at least the locals) will conspire to provide you with a profound experience.
Amuse-Biatch (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
Lest you think, possums, that this is a reference to Inglourious Basterds , we hasten to add that this is taken from Robin Leventhal’s statement, “Well, I’m a bad Jew, and pork would be my vice.” Bad Jews are, of course, our favorites. (In our youth, we had a Jewish boyfriend—uh, same-sex boyfriend, as Ash Fulk would put it—whose preferred Saturday morning breakfast...
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