Word: ponti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authorities in Geneva cannot register a birth until the baby has a name, but Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren were so sure that their second child would be a girl that the only name they had picked was Sophia Penelope-which would hardly do for a 7-lb. 4-oz. bambino. While the actress convalesced from the caesarean, the Pontis brooded over more manly names for a day or so and finally chose Edoardo Gianmaria Leone. It comes from nowhere and no one in particular, says Ponti. "We just thought it was a nice name...
Born. To Sophia Loren, 38, Italy's eternal woman, who won an Academy Award for Two Women and accolades in many other films; and Carlo Ponti, 59, producer (Catch-22, Dr. Zhivago): their second child, second son; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...Carlo Ponti Jr. (alias Cipì) already speaks a combination of Italian, English and German, but he doesn't have too many friends. So his mother Sophia Loren hired a pair of swimming instructors and invited the gardener's children, the chauffeur's children and various neighbors for some lessons in the pool at the Ponti villa outside Rome. Cipì didn't much like the water -it got in his eyes and ears -and at one point he called out to his mother, "Ich liebe dich, but can I come raus?" The result...
...Instead, Ponti went to Germany and enrolled at the Frankfurt Conservatory. There he began his penchant for marathon practicing-but only of actual compositions. "I never did exercises and scales in my life," he says. "I'm not even a particularly good sight reader. There's no secret to my technique: I just work hard and play the literature...
...after having earned a solid reputation as a recitalist in European cities, Ponti broke into recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos...