As a 17-year old Italian American from New Jersey, Debbie became obsessed with the idea of traveling to Italy, and during the summer after completing her junior year in high school, she realized her dream when her parents agreed to send her on a student tour for 40 days with no one she...
Another Year in Recipes Continuing to cater to my culinary curiosityFeeds: Posts Comments Neapolitan Cannelloni December 29, 2024 by Diane Darrow . Baked pasta dishes are a much-loved tradition of southern Italian cooking. The recipe for this one, my own, is from Tom’s and my first ...
Tagged 1973, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, directed by women, Festival de Cannes, Giancarlo Giannini, Italian Cinema, Lina Polito, Lina Wertmuller, Love and Anarchy, Mariangela Melato, Review Author: Robin WriteI make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certa...
Their parents are separated because their father came out as gay and is openly dating men, yet their mother remains in love with him. On the other hand, Noah’s family comes from a traditional Jewish family. His parents have been married for over 40 years. His brother has a Jewish wife...
Runt all the while lay tipsy in the carriage, having only a dreamy half-consciousness of all that was going on. The newly arrived champions of female distress now held a consultation, in which they looked at the young lord and laughed considerably. 'Do not be alarmed,' said the leader, ...
Talking about her love of both fashion and cinema, Bellucci explained that she learned to be in front of the camera when she was very young, but that being an actress is a completely different thing. "Acting is movement, while when you are posing for a photo, the result is stiff," Bel...
When fellow classic film fan and blogger, Cinemaven, announced she would be hosting a blogathon and also mentioned how she herself hadn’t been blogging in a while, I decided that yes, I’d love to join in her blogathon as I, too, hadn’t been blogging in several years! Life just go...
These additions go a long way to showcase normalcy in these individual areas. It’s also impressive that the Farrelly brothers (Peter and Bobby), who direct the film, make Mary a surgeon paving the way for female viewers to aspire to the same. ...
Debbie has a small obsession with the groups of old Italian men that seem to gather in the middle of these villages. I believe she’s looking for the Godfather . We also visited Tonnara di Scopello which is one of the oldest and most important in Sicily. This complex contains a museum ...
My favorite is the coy “The Lusty Month of May,” which appears when Guinevere and the women frolic and gather flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Later, Lancelot and Guenevere sing of their forbidden love and how wrong life has all gone in ‘I Loved You Once In Silence.’ ...