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...Vieille Maîtresse (An Old Mistress) with Asia Argento and French cinema grande dame Jeanne Moreau. The money will probably come; Garrel seems to have a nose for good projects. - By 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...
...Sansa was halfway through an acting course at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama when a friend recommended her to the casting director working on Marco Bellocchio's film, La Balia. At the time, she didn't have the money to go to Rome for the audition. But a month later, Bellocchio still hadn't found his heroine and Sansa, whose grandmother had sent her money to come home for Easter, was determined to seize the opportunity. After six auditions, she got the part. "She was just a girl when I chose her for La Balia," says Bellocchio...
...Parkinson's disease, his collaborators say John Paul, 84, is mentally alert and capable of making big calls on the direction of the Roman Catholic Church. But even the most steadfast Vatican loyalists concede that a substantial chunk of his workload has been delegated to top subordinates in Rome. A senior Vatican official told TIME, "Things that the Pope would have handled personally in the past are more and more being entrusted to aides." Some duties, such as signing major encyclicals and apostolic letters, cannot be handed off to others. But Vatican insiders say the Pope has now given...
Still, few insiders expect that his latest health problems make it any more likely that the Pope will step down. "If John Paul were going to resign, it would have already happened," says Rome-based Jesuit Father Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering."--By Jeff Israely
...born in Argentina and began piano lessons at the age of five with his mother and father. He made his debut in Buenos Aires at the age of seven, gaining international notoriety after a series of concerts in Vienna, Rome, Paris, London, and New York...