After five days in Venice chasing after George Clooney and his bride Amal Alamuddin, I am finally back in Rome. I had a blast covering this story because it was completely different from most of the work I do for AP Television. Let’s just say that chasing after Clooney in a water taxi in Venice …
I am writing this post while I rock gently in a water taxi on the Grand Canal in Venice in front of the Aman Hotel. I am slowing getting asphyxiated on the engine fumes as we hover here. On board are eight people, three photographers, two camerapersons, an assistant and me. We are all waiting …
Dear Blog Readers, I am on a train headed from Rome to Venice where I will be spending the next five days with the AP television team covering the George Clooney wedding extravaganza. As we all know, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Members of the Islamic State are decapitating journalists, …
We had to check in for the Papal flight to Albania at 4:45 am. At Rome’s Fiumicino airport there were the usual young travellers sprawled out sleeping on the floor and the Vatican Press corps stood out. When we travel with the Pope we dress in black, have big press passes hanging around our necks …
Dear Blog Readers– I am still trying to get into the groove of the Venice Film Festival but I just want to give you a bit of behind-the-scenes color. Yesterday was the big opening day kicking off with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in the film “Gravity” by Director Alfonso Cuaron. In the film Bullock …
Dear Blog Readers — I stepped off the Vaporetto (water bus) yesterday onto the Lido of Venezia ready to spend two weeks covering the Venice Film Festival. Here the streets are lined with oleander and azaleas, boats pass by tranquilly in the canals, and tourists, journalists, and press flacks alike bike around cheerfully. Little cabins …