Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gable is a Philadelphia lawyer who flies to Naples to wind up the affairs of a black-sheep brother who has died when his sailboat capsized. Gable learns from Attorney Vittorio De Sica that his brother's estate consists of $14,000 worth of unsalable fireworks and the rocket-propelled Marietto, a by-blow for freedom conceived with the help of an unmarried lady who is also dead. The boy lives in Capri with his Aunt Sophia, a cabaret canary who describes herself aptly as Gable's "sister...
Film Producer Carlo Ponti and Actor Vittorio Gassman are waiting this week-and probably will be for many more-to hear whom they are married to, if anyone. So is a British petty officer named William, whose German wife Olga claimed she had taken a vow of chastity and refused to have sexual intercourse with him, but nevertheless presented him with a child. So is Nick, a Manhattan Sicilian, who claims the Mafia frightened him into marrying 14-year-old Tonina. Their marital fates-and those of many other Roman Catholics throughout the world-are being decided by Rome...
Three evenings were given over to performances of Vittorio Giannini's comic opera The Taming of the Shrew. Composed in 1953, it proved to be one of the finest operas yet written by a native American. The libretto uses only words from Shakespeare: the text of Shrew, a speech from Romeo and Juliet, and some lines from the Sonnets. Unlike the Cole Porter musical comedy version of the play, Kiss Me, Kate, Giannini has given equal weight to the two pairs of lovers in the original tale--Katherina and Petruchio, Bianca and Lucentio. The result is a highly dramatic...
...overcast. They assure visitors: "It's the kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe's tallest, and was designed by a native son, world-famed Architect Gio Ponti...
...Roof. Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica finds a subtler way of saying that the sun in sunny Italy shines only on the rich (TIME...