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Andrea Bocelli has had a very busy festive season promoting his A Family Christmas album with his children Matteo and Virginia Bocelli. They even starred in an accompanying TV movie together, which they're following up this Easter with The Journey. The Italian maestro has been promoting the new music special which will play exclusively in US movie...

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A billionaire cable TV empire owner does not own a yacht, private jet and mansion on a beach, instead he shelled out $170 million to buy an Italian pro soccer team. Rocco Commisso, 73, bought ACF Fiorentina in Florence three years ago. His wife told him that if he insisted on buying a team, it needed to be somewhere nice. The price tag was also a b...

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This Sunday at 7:00 p.m., CBS’s 60 Minutes television news program will feature Rocco B. Commisso, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Orange County headquartered Mediacom Communications Corporation in a segment entitled “Only in America.” Commisso is one of the most successful Italian immigrant entrepreneurs in the nation’s history, and his story will b...

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A common saying goes, "Italy is home to poets, sailors and saints". Indeed, Italian television production about Saints, priests, nuns or lay Christian people is worldwide renown (think of the success of "Don Matteo"). This media thread can help us to perceive and understand the presence and personality of those who have followed Jesus Christ: throu...

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Back in September, Italy presented Mario Martone’s Nostalgia for consideration as a nominee for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, which will air this Sunday, March 12. Nostalgia ultimately didn’t make the cut for candidacy, but Italy — Rome in particular — remains a cinematic stronghold in Hollywood’s eyes; just yesterday,...

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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Monday honoring Giancarlo Giannini for a career which included a best actor Oscar nomination, part of an extensive collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmuller. “This is a wonderful moment, and I’m very happy to be here,” Giannini told the crowd during the unveiling ceremony. “I wan...

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When Giancarlo Esposito stepped off the escalator at moma, a trio of security guards—all young men, Black or Latino—greeted him with knowing salutes. Who, I wondered, did they see? Was it Gus Fring, the fussy, stoical drug lord of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul”? Or Stan Edgar, the biotech C.E.O. who manufactures superheroes in Amazon’s Marve...

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Potentially Dangerous will start broadcasting on PBS member stations next week! In our first month of broadcasts, we'll hit 10 states, 4 top-10 markets, and 20% of the total PBS landscape. That's 60 million potential viewers! Cities where you can watch in March include Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boise, Orlando, Spokane, Los A...

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Ray Romano is getting personal with his latest project “Somewhere in Queens.” The upcoming slice-of-life dramedy, which Romano directed and co-wrote, is partly inspired by his upbringing as well as his real-life family relationships, the actor shared with People. In the film, which hits theaters April 21, Romano and “Lady Bird” star Laurie Metcalf...

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NIAF congratulates Italian American actress Ellen Pompeo as her 19-year’s playing Dr. Meredith Grey on the award winning drama Grey’s Anatomy comes to a close. Her last episode as a series regular aired Thursday, February 23rd. In 2007, Ellen Pompeo was awarded the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Entertainment at our 32nd Anniversary Gala in Wash...

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