Word: mussolini
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Franco Zeffirelli casts his new movie, Tea with Mussolini, in a different key. Based on a memoir of his experiences growing up in Italy, Tea with Mussolini tells the story of an eccentric group of British and American women living in Florence during...
...idyll. Elsa is Jewish. She is the anonymous philanthropist who puts money in a trust for Luca, delivers passports with his help to a Jewish woman, and, after the war breaks out, pays to move her English acquaintances from a dingy barracks to a hotel. Lady Hester assumes that Mussolini, with whom she once had tea, is the one who is paying for their stay at the hotel...
...personally landed in the new world four years earlier, with a newly minted Nobel Prize gold medal in his pocket, pre-eminent among a distillation of outstanding scientists who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s to escape anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy--in Fermi's case, of his Jewish wife Laura...
...Currently her single Believe is No. 2 on the Billboard charts and "Cher hair"--ironed flat, middle parted--crowns trendsetters everywhere. Even contemporary designer Tom Ford of Gucci, Cher reports, told her she inspired his latest '60s-inflected collection. The multimedia onslaught will continue when her film, Tea with Mussolini, starring Dames Judi Dench and Joan Plowright, opens in the spring. Cher admits to being awestruck by the titled ensemble. "When you get around them, you don't care who you are, you're just boring." Hey, does Dame Judi have tattoos...
...perhaps fair to observe that Italian Jewry was spared the worst of genocide. Mussolini's Fascist government only belatedly and halfheartedly embraced the nightmare racial theories of its German ally. Not until after the Italians made a separate peace, late in the war, and the Germans occupied much of their country did deportations begin in earnest. This meant that many Italian Jews stayed only a relatively short time in the camps, which enhanced their chances of survival...