Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life in Hell's Kitchen has been heaven," rhapsodizes Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone. The Italian Stallion is back on location in the tenements-this time not on the Rocky roads of Philadelphia, but on Manhattan's West Side. In Paradise Alley, Stallone plays Cosmo, a 1940s street hustler who hangs out with a beautiful hooker (Joyce Ingalls). The dialogue, raw and raunchy, is written by-who else? But not content with being both author and star, Sly is also making his directing debut. His early impressions: "I'm learning how the other half lives through others from...
...Bernard Simon, 65, chief of plastic surgery at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, came into the kitchen after a long illness. In order to prepare low-cholesterol foods that would not tax his damaged heart, he studied Chinese and Italian cuisine. But he soon found other reasons to cook. "At this point in my life," he says, "I would rather give than take. I find cooking a very gracious, warm and nurturing kind of thing to offer people...
...Elizabeth David Cookery Book Set (Penguin; $13.95). Boxed edition includes French Country Cooking, French Provincial Cooking, Summer Cooking, Italian Food and Mediterranean Food. Elizabeth David is authentic, practical, nononsense, inventive-the most important of the contemporary authors...
...Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Kazan (Knopf; $12.95) and The Fine Art of Italian Cooking by Giuliano Bugialli (Quadrangle; $15). Almost a college course in Italian cuisine...
Saturday Night Fever is set in the New York equivalent of Rocky's South Philadelphia-Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, an Italian-American enclave where working-class kids slave all week so that they can dress up and boogie on Saturday nights. Norman Wexler's screenplay focuses on the best dancer in the community, Tony Manero (Travolta), a paint-store salesman who still lives with his smothering family. Tony is ignorant of the world, narcissistic and, except on the dance floor, aimless. The film's story is about his tumultuous romance with another good dancer (Karen Lynn Gorney...