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...Paris and Milan compete for press attention, bragging rights and the dollars of store buyers around the world. Though the lines between the two capitals have blurred - Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford design for houses in both cities; French label Yves Saint Laurent is now run by the Italian Gucci Group, which is owned by the French company PPR - arguing about which city puts on the best shows remains a favorite parlor game of the fashion set. For the last 10 years, Milan has been winning, as Italian houses like Prada and Gucci came up with collections that rocked their...
...reception after last night’s performance welcomed former club members, including Bryn Mawr’s Nancy Dersofi, a professor of Italian, who performed in the club’s 1956 production of Oedipus at Colonus...
...glance at her in Malena (a darker, hornier Summer of '42), and an Italian kid skyrockets into puberty. One glimpse of her legs as she scampers out of sight, and the hero of the superb French thriller The Apartment jettisons his fiance and a good job to stalk her. Vincent Cassel, the star of The Apartment, must have felt similar stirrings. He has appeared in six more films with Bellucci. And in 1999 he married...
...support her law studies at the University of Perugia. Her work as a model got her a small, revealing role as a vampire bride opposite Keanu Reeves (her Matrix co-star) in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Soon the actress-model was a model actress in French and Italian films and one American suspense drama, Under Suspicion, as Gene Hackman's wife...
DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, actor who helped popularize postwar Italian comedies; in Rome. The working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...