Cari lettori, oggi mi prendo una pausa dalle solite storie di mamma-giornalista per parlarvi di Ecoonda. Ho pubblicato svariati e spietati post sui poveri mammoni italiani, perciò in questo cercherò di rendere giustizia ad alcuni uomini italiani impegnati a fare la differenza… e a creare le onde. Paolo Santalucia, mio collega di AP e videogiornalista […]
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Dear Blog Readers, I am taking a break from my usual Mamma-journalist tales to tell you about EcoOonda. (Onda means wave and Eco refers to ecological). There have been some posts where I have been pretty harsh on the poor old Italian Mammoni (Mama-Boys), so finally I am going to make it up to Italian
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Dear Blog Readers, Earlier this week I did a story on the Vatican’s reaction to Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage. The Archbishop of Dublin Diarmud Martin told my AP wire colleague Nicole Winfield and me that “The Church’s teaching is very clear about this….It goes back to the original teaching in the beginning of the
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Dear Blog Readers, you were all so enthusiastic about my “Bold and Beautiful” posts I am doing one last wrap up. I found Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) to be lovely. She is 51 and she looks awesome and is open, generous and friendly too. A mother of a mixed family with 4 children from various
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A full day on the set today with “The Bold and the Beautiful” in the lovely seaside town of Polignano A Mare in Puglia. Here are a few highlights of the day. My prize goes to Milena Cisternino, a pretty local traffic cop with a killer smile who I found eagerly hanging outside the door
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I am in Puglia – the heel of Italy’s boot – on an assignment for AP Entertainment, to cover the American soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” on location. I anxiously told my bosses “I’ve covered shipwrecks, earthquakes, elections and the Pope, but I have never, ever covered a soap opera, and I’ve never, ever
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Dear Blog Readers – I’ve had little time for blogging these days, but I wanted to share the above photo. Last night I had to cover a night tour of Rome’s Colosseum. The special tour for journalists just happened to coincide with the Giant Moon. After we finished filming inside we walked out and I
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A long leg came shooting out and smashed into the blue “colpitore” with such force that I jumped. WHOMP! I was sitting several meters away and had been expecting the kick but the force and intensity startled me. Italy’s Olympic silver-medal Taekwondo champion Mauro Sarmiento was warming up. He is 1,95 meters tall (nearly 6’
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