Word: mastroianni
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...killer in No Country for Old Men, was originally to play Guido. When he dropped out, the role went to Day-Lewis, an actor nearly the opposite of Bardem. He's coiled, wary, and has a spirit that's not even slightly Mediterranean. In 8-1/2, Mastroianni was such a natural charmer - so, we have to say, Italian - that he made indolence attractive; in that film, a perpetual sexual adolescence was not a flaw but a goal (especially because women kept throwing themselves at him, and what woman wouldn't?). Day-Lewis has wit, looks and a furious dedication...
...would be made, in a way, by the man the movie is about. The premise contained its own absurdity - nobody makes a movie without a script, a theme, a setting - but 8-1/2 was a work of great bustle and brio, built around the exhausted, passive Guido (Marcello Mastroianni). Finally, at the point of suicide, Guido has an epiphany: he will put his problems, his job, his life, all his women, into the circus of a movie, with himself as the ringmaster. (See a pictorial celebration of Federico Fellini and his movies...
Boston College coach Alison Kulik also emphasized the strength of Harvard’s defense and Mann, who only allowed one goal out of 20 shots. Kulik’s goalkeeper, Jillian Mastroianni, had zero saves...
With about nine minutes left until intermission and Harvard down 2-0, sophomore Melanie Baskind found a sprinting Alexandra Conigliaro from about 20 yards out. The freshman forward took a solid shot on net, but the Eagles’ goalie, sophomore Jillian Mastroianni, made the save...
Finding herself with the ball and no one to beat but the netminder, the all-Ivy junior forward knew exactly what to do. She blasted a shot high into the net over Mastroianni, getting the Crimson back into the match...