Behind the Scenes with Associated Press in Italy

Silvio Berlusconi and Me – Part I

On Saturday night Silvio Berlusconi – the man who has dominated Italian politics for the last 18 years- drove from his Roman residence Palazzo Grazioli up the street to Italy’s Quirinale Presidential Palace and submitted his resignation as Prime Minister. He had to take a round-about route because the streets were filled with joyful protesters

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Oh Dear Me! A Film about the Invention of the Vibrator!

After Thursday’s moving film “The Lady” about Aung San Suu Kyi, yesterday my emotions were thrown in the opposite direction with the uproariously funny film “Hysteria” about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England. One woman says she is always hungry, another anxious, another has crying jags. It is 1880 and each woman is

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Jeremy Irons on Women and Food

I had the opportunity today for a brief interview with actor Jeremy Irons after he was named the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s new Goodwill Ambassador. The FAO has its headquarters in Rome. A quick glance at Irons’ biography is mind-boggling.  He has starred in dozens of movies (“The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune,

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