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...remainder of the show continues along the same course. After the bride and groom take the floor for their first dance, the audience is invited to join them. Though it’s easy during earlier parts of the show to focus solely on Italian-American jokes and the general inanity of the characters, at some point it becomes evident that there is more going...
...course book that no one would actually take. Tuesday-Thursday 8:30 to 11:00? A midterm, a final, two research papers and an interpretative dance? I mean, come on! But then again, no one expected eminent professors of the Iliad, the Boston Brahmin and of anything Italian-American to decide to take the semester off to align their shakras, then...
Chase lends authenticity to the ethnic drama "Sopranos" by incorporating precise details from his own childhood experience as an Italian-American in New Jersey...
Geddes is doing more in America than getting mentioned in magazines. In 1995 he engineered the first Italian-American joint venture with California's Mondavi, a fifty-fifty partnership in which the two companies jointly hold the Luce della Vite corporation, which owns two Tuscan estates. A shared board develops marketing and distribution strategies, and winemakers from each company collaborate on the wines. The resulting lines are designed to compete at three different price levels, an essential for mass competition in the global market. Luce is made from a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot grapes grown entirely in Montalcino...
Columbus Day and Yom Kippur fell on the same day this year, but the few bona fide Italian icons who portray those in desperate need of atonement were not celebrating. Cast members of HBO's THE SOPRANOS were disinvited from riding in New York City's Columbus Day parade following protests from Italian-American groups. "The Sopranos is guilty of damaging the image and character of an estimated 20 million Italian Americans by using their religion, customs and values in a violent and immoral context," claims the coalition, which recently named show creator David Chase "Pasta-tute of the Year...