(American TV; with a.o. Venessa Redgrave, Julia Ormond, Marthe Keller, Maximilian Schell; director: Michael Anderson), Rusty in the Italian TV-film Requiem per Voce e Pianoforte (RAI DUE), and last not least Dieter Krause in the English TV-thriller The Waiting Time (IT...
(1969). During the late 1960s and the ’70s, low-budget Italian- and Spanish-made western films achieved some commercial success.Sergio Leonewas thechiefdirector of such films, andClint Eastwood, his principal actor inA Fistful of Dollars(1964) andThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(1966), ...
He was particularly inspired by Italian architecture and is credited with the introduction of numerous Palladian elements to the American architectural landscape. In 1772, Jefferson built a residence for himself in Virginia and named it Monticello. The house consequently established what would be later ...
Chuck Jackson, an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Bacharach and lyricist Hal David successfully, died just days after the composer, aged 85. Bacharach died at the age of 94, with tributes paid by artists of all ages. "RIP Maestr...
Boccaccio is best known as the author of theDecameron, an earthy and tragic-comic look at life which, because it was written in vernacular Italian, helped raise the language to the same level of regard as Latin and Greek. Shortly after completing theDecameronhe changed to writing in Latin, ...
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer known for his animal-print designs, died at 83. Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants in Lebanon from 1985 to 1991, died at 76. MAY Roger Corman, American maestro of low-budget cinema, died at 98. ...
with composer Richard Rodgers; "Assassins," a revue telling the stories of successful or attempted presidential assassins; "Passion" a story of obsessive love adapted from an 1869 Italian novel; and "Road Show" (a.k.a. "Bounce"), which was workshopped beginning in 1999 but did not play ...
Lollobrigida would star in dozens of films, including the sex farces "Come September" (1961) and "Strange Bedfellows" (1965), both with Rock Hudson; and 1968’s “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” a comedy about an Italian lover whose daughter is from one of three American Army GI’s. As ...
A designer who never stopped challenging convention, the Italian-born Pierre Cardin (July 2, 1922-December 29, 2020) took on the titans of French couture. He entered the business at age 14, and would go on to work for Christian Dior, who helped Cardin establish his own house when he was...
Rembrandt was influenced by a variety of artistic traditions, including the Dutch Golden Age, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque styles. He was also inspired by biblical stories, mythology, and everyday life in 17th-century Amsterdam, where he lived and worked. What is Rembrandt’s legacy? Rembrand...