Word: ferrara
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...gentleman from Ferrara wouldn't consider it among his signal accomplishments, but with a couple of seconds in Blowup, he changed Hollywood history. The movie was produced by Carlo Ponti and was to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the stately old lion of American film studios. But the industry ratings board wouldn't give the picture a seal because, during a photo-shoot romp, the model Jane Birkin allowed the briefest display of pubic hair. Instead of trimming the scene to the board's specifications, MGM honored Antonioni's version of the film, invented a subsidiary, Premier Productions...
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART OF ITALY? Because the Galleria Borghese is my favorite museum, I'd probably say I like Rome more than any other place. But Bologna is dazzling also. Plus those beautiful towns nearby: Modena, Ferrara and Parma...
...paint several frescoes in the palaces of the Vatican. Much of Piero's best output - or at least the best that remains - can be found in the midsized cities of central and eastern Italy, where he was a favorite of the major noblemen who ruled the towns of Urbino, Ferrara and Rimini...
...these days Piero is the city's star, even if it wasn't always that way. Bertelli, one of the three co-curators of the exhibit, calls Piero "an unlucky artist," because some of his greatest works were permanently lost, including frescoes in Ferrara (after his patron died, they were torn down) and in the Vatican (to make room for Raphael frescoes in the early 16th century). But his surviving works show a subtle mastery that influenced Raphael, Venetian painter Gentile Bellini and visiting Flemish painters along the Adriatic coast. He even inspired 20th century surrealists...
...elections. Even more controversial is his plan to overturn the so-called "equal time" rule that currently bans campaign advertising on television. Berlusconi, of course, owns Italy's three main private TV stations. Not everyone is convinced of Letta's eminence. "Letta is a formidable ambassador," says Giuliano Ferrara, a conservative newspaper editor and occasional Berlusconi adviser, "but he's not a real political adviser, not a Karl Rove. Someone who always counsels generic prudence is useful, but it's incomplete." And former President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga wonders just how much advice the boss hears. "For someone like...