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...African-American unit, was among the former resistance fighters who waged that legal battle, and he met Lee last year before filming began. "He talked about commemorating the Buffalo troops, but he didn't say anything about this betrayal," said Costa, reached by phone in his hometown of Pietrasanta, some six miles from St. Anna. "We are indignant about this. I don't understand why he had to open all this up again...
...Giovanni Cipollini, who heads Pietrasanta's local pro-resistance association, said he had offered to put Lee in touch with partisans who were present, but that the director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...
...assistant, preferring to catalog the work himself on his Palm Pilot and Apple laptop, constant items in his luggage. He has a fully equipped studio near each of his homes, including on Paris' Left Bank and New York City's Park Avenue, and in villas in Colombia and Pietrasanta, Italy. The late Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Botero a studio in Monte Carlo, where he spends several weeks a year. And Villa del Sol, a plush beachfront resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, built a suite to Botero's specifications, and hosts the artist there one month each winter. This perpetual motion...
...World War I growth, deftly steered the company through depression, dictatorship and World War II, then, with organizational genius and Marshall Plan cash, embarked on a vast expansion and diversification program that resulted in $1.66 billion in sales last year at his retirement; of a stroke; in Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy...
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