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...mere ''You only live once.'' In her first year at A.B.T., she has worked with typical speed and intelligence, learning six major roles, three of them in full-length ballets. Says the A.B.T.'s Tchernichova, with whom Ferri now studies: ''In Act I of Giselle she is like Anna Magnani when she goes mad. In Act II she is like a cloud.'' SYLVIE GUILLEM. Until she was eleven and fell in love with ''le spectacle,'' or the show-biz side of ballet, this lyrical athlete was a whiz-kid gymnast in the blue-collar Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil...
...women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body, to foreign films, which had then what most of them lack now: star quality...
...some time to get used to saying Benedict XVI-may be wise to focus first on the people of Rome. Along with being the Vicar of Christ and the Supreme Pontiff of the Church, the pope is also the bishop of this city-and the Romans feel it. Fabrizio Magnani, a 65-year-old real estate broker was on his way to meet a client near St. Peter's when the radio announced white smoke and ringing bells. He parked his car as soon as he could and joined "a river of people" rushing into the Piazza...
...Grant Rosenberg/Paris Things just keep getting better for Maya Sansa. The 29-year-old Italian from Rome has been charming audiences with her crooked smile and combination of charisma and reserve since appearing in La Balia (The Nanny) in 1999. Critics liken her to her iconic compatriots Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren. This year everyone else will understand why. Sansa will appear in three films in Europe: the romantic drama L'Amore Ritrovato (An Italian Romance); the psychological thriller Contronatura (Unnatural); and her English-language debut, The Listening, a tale of espionage with Michael Parks (Kill Bill...
...sensuality makes her a natural choice for romantic leads, she's also able to carry character roles: see her sensitive and tormented performance as Italian statesman Aldo Moro's reluctant kidnapper in another Bellochio film, 2003's Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night). But Sansa remains wary of the Magnani and Loren comparisons, and she's confident enough about the future to take a break from moviemaking to spend time with her boyfriend in Paris. "You can get all wrapped up in this job," she says. "I don't want to lose myself. I want to keep centered and remember...