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...Joseph's trip to Bethlehem, was rushed into production by New Line Cinema and entrusted to an edgy director with a knack for youth culture, Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke. Despite the challenges of reconciling Scripture with story, casting actors to play icons, constructing a Christ-era Nazareth in the Italian countryside, wrangling donkeys and camels, and figuring out how to market the first major-studio Bible epic since the genre's peak in the 1950s and '60s with films like The Ten Commandments, The Nativity Story will arrive in theaters on Dec. 1, just about a year...
...create mouthwatering dishes like the house speciality, Portuguese charcoal-grilled piri-piri chicken. GREEN OLIVE: Attached to a boutique resort, this tranquil and warm dining room, tel: (66-77) 230 222, serves up some of the island's best pasta dishes. That's no surprise when you discover that Italian chef Andrea Fiorentin has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Italy. Seafood soup with saffron is another house signature. RICE: This delightful venue, tel: (66-77) 231 934, is accessed by a small bridge over a pond, bestowing a sense of occasion that is matched by the Italian cuisine. Chef...
...dozens. They showed French and Soviet films to the cinerati. But there were also many theaters for first- and second-generation immigrants homesick for the kinds of movies they left back in the old country. Hence the foreign-language pictures, typically without subtitles, in German, Greek and Italian neighborhoods...
...Sometimes they became mainstream hits, like Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which, in tickets sold, may still be the all-time foreign-language boxoffice champ. The hits spawned satellites: suddenly Italian films were hot. In the years after La Dolce Vita, dozens of pasta pictures played the big cities; foreign-film fans sought them out because of the director, the stars, the country. Another Italian film of less reputable pedigree turned into a hit: the shock-documentary Mondo Cane, on which we can blame not just a raft of cheap-n-sleazy Mondo movies but the wedding-reception standard...
...produce as much material, you can do slightly more nuanced topics than a regular issue, focusing on slightly narrower topics such as cigarettes, porn, Wikipedia and rich people. Basically what I’m saying is, get ready for a soon-to-be-released mini about 16th Century Italian pottery. Doordropped: Do you think the minis are more ephemeral than the bigs? Does that run counter to the Lampoon’s dedication to timeless humor? SJ: I don’t think I can really respond to this question. I just don’t know...