Working with Italian director Lina Wertmuller on the set of Seven Beauties. The film went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing — the first time a woman was nominated in that category.
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Original Publication: Women’s Wear Daily, September 18, 1975 Naples – Two Mafiosi hired for the occasion are stand guard outside the old Neapolitan tenements “just in case.” Inside the inner…
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Original Publication – Newsweek – November 25, 1974 “Give me a minor chord, Nino.” Seated at an editing machine in Rome, director Francis Ford Coppola is scoring reel 23, the…
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I had to threaten to resign from Newsweek to get Godfather II on the cover! This story came out just before its release and I did gloat when it won…
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“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, March 4, 1974 Once they glittered from the silver screen, a legendary galaxy of female stars. Theda Bara and Garbo and Dietrich matched any male star in popularity:…
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