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Though water polo players will probably be the only ones meeting each other’s siblings and pets, it turns out the soccer team has some Italian connections. “Our coach is very Italian, too, so I think he’s very excited to go,” says forward Katherine M. Sheeleigh...
...timing. In a series of humorous exchanges at the beginning of the show, the characters discuss the arrival of the “melanin-challenged” Kimber at the LeVay house. When Taylor refers to Kimber as white, Flip fires back, “She’s Italian!”—a running joke that ends when Kent and Joe greet Kimber in excited Italian, only to find out that she does not actually have a drop of Italian blood...
Moments like this, in which humor is used to highlight darker truths, abound in the play. Though the constant references to Kimber as Italian are funny, they also bring to light some disturbing realities about the race dynamic in America, as Flip believes an “ethnic” girlfriend would be more welcome in his family than a white one. One brief exchange between Flip and Joe captures this perfectly: when Joe claims that Flip sounds embarrassed about his white girlfriend, Flip simply replies, ”No, I’m just aware...
...since his tomb was unearthed in 1922. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that King Tut most likely died after a severe bout of malaria and complications from a leg fracture. The evidence, obtained through DNA testing performed by Egyptian, German and Italian researchers, would explain the hundred or so walking sticks found in Tut's tomb and contradicts earlier theories that he was murdered...
Scorsese won his great renown for films about the brotherhood of deranged machismo: Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York. But as his documentaries about American and Italian cinema show, he is also an encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie...