In one of the comments to yesterday’s post, containing the quote from Nelson Mandela, our friend Alessandro Gianesini who blogs at Parola di Scrib recalled the poem “Invictus”, Nelson Mandela’s companion during his long imprisonment.Mandela used to read it throughout his 27-year imprisonment during the apartheid period, because of its message of self-masteryThis poem has… Read More Invictus
When Mr. J. Smith read the New York Times one hundred years ago, on the morning of 4 June 1922, he breathed a sigh of relief: the earth was not going to be invaded by dinosaurs, as had been feared the day before. It was Conan Doyle’s fault! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the famous creator… Read More Fake News
“Faye Dunaway, 80 anni di fascino e carisma”: questo è il titolo di un articolo apparso oggi su “La Repubblica”.Ebbene sì, la diva americana, bella, bionda, altera, anticonvenzionale, compie oggi ottant’anni, mantenendo intatto il suo fascino e conservando tracce della bellezza giovanile anche se con i tratti un po’ alterati. Nel 1968, anno in cui… Read More Faye Dunaway, 80 anni di fascino e carisma
Oggi, 6 luglio 2020, ci ha lasciati Ennio Morricone, compositore, musicista e direttore d’orchestra. Lo voglio oggi ricordare non con una delle sue stupende colonne sonore, ma con qualcosa di più insolito, una delle sue primissime composizioni per la musica leggera: “Quello che conta”. Cantata da Luigi Tenco, la canzone è tratta dalla colonna sonora… Read More La scomparsa di un grande Maestro
What do Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw have in common? They are the only two people to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize. In 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, becoming the first songwriter to… Read More Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw
13 May 1994 is the release date of The Crow, the film based on the 1988-89 comic book series of the same name by James O’Barr. This author had been inspired by the true story of a Detroit couple barbarously killed by a gang of criminals for a ring worth 20 dollars, and his black-and-white… Read More 🎥 The Crow 🎥
On 2nd October 1957 the epic film “The Bridge on the River Kwai,“ directed by David Lean, premiered in Britain. One memorable feature of that famous World War II drama is the tune whistled by the prisoners when they enter the camp. The piece (“Colonel Bogey March”) was originally written in 1914 by Kenneth… Read More “The Bridge on the River Kwai”🎶
Il primo viaggio sulla Luna risale al primo settembre del 1902, quando a Parigi viene presentato il film muto di Georges Méliès “Viaggio nella Luna” (Le Voyage dans la lune), uno dei capolavori del cinema ai suoi esordi. Liberamente basato sui romanzi di due capostipiti della fantascienza, “Dalla Terra alla Luna” di Jules Verne (1865)… Read More Il primo ‘Viaggio sulla Luna’🌝
Smile, without a reason why Love, as if you were a child, Smile, no matter what they tell you Don’t listen to a word they say Cause life is beautiful that way. Tears, a tidal wave of tears Light, that slowly disappears Wait, before you close the curtain There is still another game to… Read More “Beautiful That Way” (Life is Beautiful)
Queen movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the surprise winner of two major prizes at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. The Freddie Mercury biopic took home the trophies for best film drama and best drama actor for its star Rami Malek, who played the late frontman. BBC News – 7 January 2019 (… to be continued)
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