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Rumor Has It is a Rob Reiner comedy that sort of takes off where The Graduate left off in some comically intriguing ways. If you can believe in Dustin Hoffman mutating into Kevin Costner, and Anne Bancroft, the original Mrs Robinson, into Shirley MacLaine, then the addition of bubbly Jennifer
Vivia Ferragamo was born into Florence’s fashion royalty, the Ferragamo family. As the granddaughter of the legendary Salvatore Ferragamo, she has fashion in her blood. She has recently started her own collection, “Vivia.” The obvious question is why not work for the family
Whether it be shopping at the Tuesday morning market, taking a run along the river, swimming at the public pool or frequenting the discotecas, you may have spent time in Florence’s largest public park, il Parco delle Cascine. This massive park, more than 290 acres, is about
When I first moved to Italy I didn’t give much thought to the fact of undershirts. Sure, I thought it was funny that my then boyfriend and now husband called them FROO-EETS (short of course for Fruit of the Loom pronounced in a spectacularly Italian way).&
Moira McFarland serves as the British Consul General covering the Regions of Tuscany, Umbria, Emilia Romagna and Marche. We were fortunate to steal her away from her diplomatic duties long enough to ask some questions about her life as a Florentine. How long have you served as the
In the fashion business, time is money, money is time – and both have become a problem. Email and instant messaging, MTV broadcasting around the globe, and cell phone texting means that people around the world know the latest fashion trends before they’ve even hit the stores.&
In spite of an abundance of twinkling white lights, a fair showing of tasteful decorations and a token Mercato di Natale in Piazza Santa Croce, Florence is not most people’s fantasy Christmas destination. Buy the presents here and move on. If you are after a good dose
It’s that time of year again, which I am sure more than a few of us have a love-hate relationship with: Christmas. Receiving presents is of course the best bit, but having to get other people’s presents can be stressful and time consuming, especially when
Just a short walk from the hustle and bustle of the Duomo, past the Galleria dell’ Accademia where Michelangelo’s David watches triumphantly, and very nakedly, over throngs of tourists, there quietly waits another Brunelleschi masterpiece, the ‘Spedale degli Innocenti in Piazza Santissima Annunziata. With its classical
In modern day Italy, the celebration of Natale (Christmas) has it’s own unique flavour, combining pastoral traditions, traditional cultural rites, influences from Northern Europe, and a strong spiritual context to mark the important event. Although Italians have adopted some of the northern European traditions, the season is
Eugenio Giani, Assessore allo Sport e Tempo Libero, has been serving the city of Florence since 1990.Although he studied law he found his calling in public service.After spending three years working for a Florentine law firm, he decided to enter politics and has never left.A member of
La March De LEmpereur (The March of the Penguins), the highly acclaimed French documentary about Emperor penguins in Antarctica will be shown in the original French version.
Tea at four. Dinner at eight. Murder at midnight. You get the picture. Upstairs- downstairs interaction and genteel back-stabbing in this Agatha Christie-like English country-house murder mystery. Not immediately identifiable as Altman territory, but on closer acquaintance, Gosford Park is full of his unmistakable trademarks: a large
Realism again in a political thriller set in and around the UN building in New York in Sidney Pollacks The Interpreter. Nicole Kidman is the UN interpreter who overhears a death threat against the African dictator (probably Robert Mugabe),with Secret Service agent Sean Penn investigating. Apart from a few
Part 2 of Lars von Triers projected US History trilogy that began with Dogville, Manderlay is thus the second installment of his finger-wagging chronicle of American ugliness. Race relations, this time in 1930s Alabama, where slavery continued unchecked since the Civil War, again come under scrutiny in the abstract
The Best Movie Ever Made- Griffin Mill. Not surprisingly, Griffin Mill is the character played by Tim Robbins, a Hollywood studio executive who has the power to hire or fire and finds himself inundated with death threats from a rejected writer, with whom he has several bizarre and conclusive encounters.
Dumbed down gritty realism down on the ranch (Wyo) in rapidly declining Lasse Hallstroms An Unfinished Life, and unpretentious (i.e clich-ridden) reconciliation movie not afraid of pain, suffering and trauma, but perhaps too fond of melodrama and sentimentality, (and bears). Widowed Jean (surreally immaculate Jennifer Lopez) and her
“So, what should I get at the market for lunch tomorrow?” My blood turns to ice. This seemingly innocent question, when asked by one’s Italian mother-in-law, can shatter ...
Have you ever complimented a friend on a killer hat or a stunning scarf only for them to reply, bragging, “Cute, huh? I got it at the market on Sunday for ONLY two euros!” Have you ever noticed that the most gorgeous garment gems are either Via Tornabuoni
Judy Foster does a sort of airborne Panic Room routine in German director Robert Shwentkes tightly plotted, intriguingly unraveled Hitchcockian whodunit thriller Flightplan, as the mother of a daughter who inexplicably vanishes on a transatlantic flight. Mysteries within mysteries complicate any pretensions towards a comfortable relationship with reality, but the
Robert Altmans controversial update of Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, willfully torpedoes Chandlers highly regarded literary detective story and creates in its place a 1970s parody of Phillip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) as a shabby, disorganized, confused and confusing private eye, only loosely enclosed in Chandlers meticulously crafted criminal underworld. Another
