Word: visconti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe. "It was the most important company in Italy," he says. "So I got into the theater from the golden door...
...Mastroianni attained Italian film stardom as the wistful suitor in Visconti's White Nights, and in 1959 Fellini made him an international icon by casting him in La Dolce Vita. Mastroianni compares these two men, who were crucial to his career: "Visconti was the teacher. Severe, but we like him. Fellini is your benchmate, the one you sit next to and make jokes. With Fellini, always we make it a joke. The more serious the film, the more we laugh. We don't say, 'Oh, maestro, how beautiful is this thing you are creating!' We think this...
...epic novel has intrigued and defied the efforts of such talented screenwriters and directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann...
...roll. Two films were instrumental in breaking the barrier: Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider (1969), with its hippie rock, and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973), in which the urban raunch of the Rolling Stones and the Ronettes was used the same way Luchino Visconti used opera...
...Novelist William S. Burroughs, because "I wanted a truism about cutting through lies." Not even Jim Bowie's renowned blade could have cut through the craziness that was surrounding Bowie now or even the tales that had been building up around him. As early as 1969, according to Tony Visconti, who lived outside London with David and Angie, life was like a lysergic version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. "Thursday night was gay night. David would go to a gay club, Angie to a lesbian club, and they would both bring home people they found. We had to lock our bedroom...