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...Sleeps When I'm Awake (La Dolce Vita Remix)" - The Sounds
...such a compendium. Edited by journalist Donata Sartorio and with photographs by Paolo Leone, the book captures the lives, ambitions and traditions of more than a hundred families, many well known from the society and business pages. Sartorio calls the on-the-go famiglie "moccasin people." Representing la dolce vita on each member photographed: Tod's shoes...
...spot on the then already famous leafy boulevard. Fifty years later, the sidewalk locale is as luxurious as ever (though not quite as lively), attracting both well-heeled Italians and tourists looking for a hint of the breezy, post-War sweet life celebrated in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, in which the café was a key location...
...award had an auspicious beginning: the Oscar-winning Marty, starring Ernest Borgnine, took home the first Palme d'Or in 1955 and deserved triumphs following soon after for Black Orpheus and Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. But the design of the trophy itself had a less than stellar start; come 1964, the powers that be at the Festival decided that a return to the original prize was necessary due to copyright issues. The Palme was reinstated in 1975 and, with multiple design changes along the way, it has remained the award craved by auteurs worldwide...
...prime minister: Giancarlo Giammetti, who from the beginning ran the business, ran interference, made the deals and, for much of their 45 years, was Valentino's lover. They met in a cafe on the Via Veneto in 1960, the year Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita made that street famous, and established Rome as the Mecca and Gomorrah of European society. (Nino Rota's music from La Dolce Vita and other Fellini films ornaments the sound track.) Valentino had just come from Paris to open a salon; Giammetti was still in college. Their serendipitous encounter cued a grand, contentious, lifelong...