Word: brides
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Born in Umbria, Bellucci began modeling to support her law studies at the University of Perugia. Her work as a model got her a small, revealing role as a vampire bride opposite Keanu Reeves (her Matrix co-star) in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Soon the actress-model was a model actress in French and Italian films and one American suspense drama, Under Suspicion, as Gene Hackman's wife...
...working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...true star of the evening, however, is Nora Cole as Ulysses’ dead wife and the mother of the Son, simply called The Bride. Literally shining in her sparkling white wedding gown, Cole’s performance is marked by confident ease and elegance as she swims effortlessly though Eckert’s difficult and cyclical music, shifting from soulful low notes to a clear, ringing soprano...
...sleep. Some upcoming reality concepts are idealistic, like FX's American Candidate, which aims to field a "people's candidate" for President in 2004. Others are lowbrow, like ABC's The Will (relatives battle for an inheritance), FOX's Married by America (viewers vote to help pair up a bride and groom) and NBC's Around the World in 80 Dates (American bachelor seeks mates around the world; after all, how better to improve America's image than to send a stud to other countries to defile their women?). But all of them make you sit up and pay attention...
...also an accurate reflection of his own nature. At 52, Almodovar has a face that remains round, open, boyish, surmounted--almost contradicted--by spiky Bride of Frankenstein hair. He talks in a rush of movie references, psychological speculation and social observation, delighted by his own wise-child spontaneity, bemused by his fame...