Dear Blog Readers — Yesterday I covered my favorite film so far in the festival, it is a documentary called “The Unknown Known” about former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Given where the US stands now — poised to attack Syria — the documentary is chilling. Today I was lucky enough to have a […]
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Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson left hearts pounding in Venice after her appearance to promote her latest film “Under the Skin.” In the film, Johansson plays a sexy alien on a road-trip through Scotland seducing and destroying men along her route. Over the course of her journey she begins to gain some sensitivity and human emotions.
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Dear Blog Readers – I think I may have given some of you the mistaken impression that I lead a very glamorous existence covering the Pope on one day and the Venice Film Festival the next. The truth of the matter is that much of the time I am schlepping around a tripod for the
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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
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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
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Last week I went through one of those traumatic Mamma experiences, booting my biggest birdie out of the nest hoping that he would fly rather than hit the ground. Nico is starting classes tomorrow at Tilburg University in Holland. He will be studying Global Law (apparently Tilburg is one of the best places in the
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This cow has got it all figured out. August is a time for chilling out and chewing the cud. That is exactly what I’ve been doing for the past week in the Italian Alps. When I talk to Americans and other non-Italians about Italy, most people are interested in Tuscany, Sicily, the Amalfi Coast, the
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Dear Blog Readers — It is summer-time and I am getting a bit slap-happy so forgive me if you think I am being immature. My blogger buddy Adri of AdriBarrCrocetti.com sent me the Bertoli Olive Oil advertisement that plays on all sorts of silly stereo-types of Italian men (and perhaps the anti-hero there is either American
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