Word: vita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway is also attracting top stars and prestige playwrights. This month Vanessa Redgrave opens in Vita and Virginia and the Joseph Papp Public Theater premieres Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In December the Public has a new Hal Prince musical, The Petrified Prince. January brings a trio of one-acters by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. Neil Simon, a Broadway pillar for a third of a century, made news recently when he said that mainstem plays had become too expensive to produce. Now even he is off-Broadway bound...
...makes me proud to be an Italian because Columbus not only discovered America, he gave America an Italian name," said Franco Graceffa, proprietor of the North End restaurant Dolce Vita. Graceffa even offered a Columbus Day special yesterday--cannelloni stuffed with spinach and topped with lobster meat and ricotta cheese...
Fellini has said about his films that he never really has a final scene. His stories, he says, show a state of friction in the relationships that ought to exist between people, some anxiety or some trouble. This is indeed reflected in "La dolce vita." For Fellini ends the film on the beach, where the drunken party finds its end. All the partygoers stare down at a dead fish prone on the shore, its glassy eyes staring out, but at nothing. Marcello looks over and sees an innocent and angelic girl whom he met while taking his interim from journalism...
...dolce vita" derived mainly from Fellini's personal impressions of the Via Veneto, Rome's street of outdoor cafes and nightclubs, which had become by the late 1950s an international hangout for the trendy. When the film first opened in 1960, it was extremely controversial, a fact which contributed greatly to its financial success. The Italian clergy was outraged by "La dolce vita." Because Catholics saw "La dolce vita" as irreligious, the film acquired a reputation as a scandalous celebration of the very decadence which it seems to denounce. Ironically, in response to "La dolce vita", the Via Veneto attempted...
This film did much to confirm Fellini's reputation when it was released. Even after two of his film received Oscars for Best Foreign Film in the 1950s, Fellini still had a difficult time finding producers for his work. After the enormous success of "La dolce vita", the winner of the Golden Palm of Cannes in 1960, Fellini received his own film company as a bonus from Angelo Rizzoli, who financed "La dolce vita...