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...movies Rosetta (1999) and L'Enfant (2005) had already each won a Palme d'Or at Cannes. They invited her to an audition for the lead for The Silence of Lorna. And if a war couldn't stop Dobroshi from pursuing her acting career, the fact that the only French she knew was the days of the week wouldn't stop her either. "If someone tells me 'You can't do this', it just makes me try harder," she laughs...
...Dobroshi got the part, and everything changed overnight. She put her social life on hold temporarily to learn French in only two months and shoot the movie, during which, she says, she immersed herself in the role. "I was in character for the entire time of shooting," she says. "On the weekends, I would almost completely isolate myself...
Eliot House Master and Romance Language prof Lino Pertile probably prefers Renaissance French literature to organized crime, and there have been no reports of bloody horse heads in the bedsheets of Eliot residents—but Pertile is, in fact, Italian. The natural corollary, then, seems to be that the Don of Eliot can be compared to a mafioso and potentially emblazoned as such on the House t-shirt...
...participating stemmed from a fascination with the preparation, taste, and presentation of different types of food. “I thought it would be a good way to see the cooking culture of Cambridge,” said Jimmy C. Yang ’09, who took classes in French and Italian cooking last summer. The first stop was the former home of chef Julia Child—credited with popularizing French cuisine among an American audience—on 103 Irving St., just a few blocks east of the Science Center. Although the students could not enter the historic...
...book, and in the authors' interview this week with TIME, the men make it clear that it wasn't just jungle fare that left a bad taste in their mouths. Some of their more unpleasant memories are saved for fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other...