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...traveled to Italy and sampled Riunite Lambrusco, a light red wine of the Emilia-Romagna region. The brothers struck a deal with the local growers' association and initially shipped 100 cases to the U.S. In 1982, Villa Banfi imported 11 million cases of Riunite Lambrusco, Rosato and Bianco, outselling the next six Italian wine importers combined by more than a million cases. Says Villa Banfi Chairman John Mariani: "We knew Riunite was going to be successful. It has the taste that was married perfectly to the American palate...
...Chardonnay grapes, and company officials hope to put in more vines during the next two years. Although isolated vineyards have been cultivated on Long Island for 300 years, no famous wine labels have emerged from the area. Villa Banfi wants to change that by bottling a world-class Nassau bianco...
...unfortunately, with Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Though Miller strove for Greek myth, his play is more of a tabloid melodrama. A simple stevedore named Eddie (Tony Lo Bianco) in Red Hook, Brooklyn, allows two of his wife's Sicilian relatives, illegally smuggled into the U.S., to live in his home. The younger one, Rodolpho (James Hayden), falls in love with Eddie's orphaned niece, Catherine (Saundra Santiago...
What this production does have working for it is Lo Bianco's volcanic performance. His eyes are tunnels without light. He springs at his prey like a tiger. Pathetically, the prey is himself, brought low not by pride but by ignorance...
...Across the River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway biography, Ivancich, now Countess Von Rex, 50, says that she "felt it was time to tell how it really was." How it was, she says, in the as yet untranslated La Torre Bianco (The White Tower), was chaste. Their love was consummated only in fiction, both in Across the River and, more figuratively, in The Old Man and the Sea (1952), where Ivancich recognizes herself as the elusive fish, chased and hooked by the masterful old fisherman...