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...Hollywood films. They were in English (as released here) and usually boasted an American male star surrounded by a busty bambina and a cast of local scenery-chewers. Anthony Quinn must have had dual citizenship back then: he played in "Attila" with Sophia Loren, "Ulysses" with Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano, and Fellini's Oscar-winning "La Strada" with Giulietta Masina. I didn't see the "Hercules" movies and other sword-and-sand epics, but they were probably the biggest-grossing Italian pictures of the decade...
Bartoli comes from a musical family. Both parents sang at the Rome Opera -- her mother a lyric soprano, her father a dramatic tenor. Her mother Silvana is Cecilia's one and only voice teacher. "She initiated it so slowly and carefully that I wasn't aware of it at first," says the daughter, who also detoured through girlhood enthusiasms for flamenco dancing and the trombone. "The voice," Silvana instructed Cecilia, "must come out naturally, no rigidity or tension -- like yawning." The family is very close, and Cecilia credits her realistic view of the rarefied opera world to her parents' unawed...
...newly elected members are Margaret H. Chaffey '83, Jacqueline O. Cooke '83, Elizabeth Coombs '83, La Donna D. France '83, Lisa Henson '83, Susan F. Keller '83, Ellyn J. Kestnbaum '83, Susanna In-Sun Lee '83, Carole A. Lengyel '83, Silvana B. Marinaro '83, Gloria Parkinson '83, Sarah Paul '83, Cynthia A. Phillips '83, Lisa Randall '83, Rochelle D. Schiffman '83, Gail Schulman '83, Veronica H. Sebok '83, Tracy E. Sivitz '83, Jan M. Steckel '83, Tipsda Sundaravei '83, Margaret H. Webb '83, Gayle R. Zoffer...
DIED. Federico De Laurentiis, 26, son of Movie Producer Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...taste and learning whose upstairs apartments in Rome are invaded by a family of rich sybarites. The Professor, as he is respectfully called, has no intention of renting the unused space in the first place, but is bullied, bribed and bluffed into the arrangement by an arrogant countess (Silvana Mangano), her daughter (Claudia Marsani) and the daughter's boy friend (Stefano Patrizi...