Word: alessandro
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...museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait of Lorenzino de' Medici, an unhappy Florentine noble who killed Alessandro de' Medici and fled to Venice for refuge, only to be murdered by Alessandro's successor...
...littlest Ford Continental, Alessandro Ford Uzielli, 18 months, woggled into international view for the first time at Paris' Orly Airport in the velvety clutches of Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...blind woman with two epileptic teen-age sons and a neurotic daughter-all supported by her oldest son, who has a job in a nearby town and wishes he could afford to get married. It looks as if his restrictive responsibilities may be over at last when his brother Alessandro loads the rest of the family in a car and sets out to drive them all over a cliff. At the last minute he chickens out, but he eventually manages to shove his mother over the cliff, and drown his epileptic brother. He is about to do in his pretty...
...frustrated rage and alienation of adolescence is the real point and power of Fists. Bellocchio, who wrote his own script, may have personally identified with Alessandro's rampage, but he keeps his distance; the film has the detached quality of a series of animated tableaux. The actors however perform with great competence-especially Lou Castel as the matri-fratricide, Paola Pitagora as his sister, and Ciliana Gerace as the mother. The tableaux are often visually stunning, in the best tradition of Italian neorealism: the ennui and self-contempt of family meals at which the cat steals food from...
Born. To Anne Ford Uzielli, 23, younger daughter of Henry II, and Giancarlo Uzielli, 32, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Alessandro Ford Uzielli...