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Feting Fellini: French museum highlights Italian master's work

Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. At age 7, Fellini ran away from boarding school to follow a traveling circus. The show at the exhibition space in the Tuileries Gardens doesn't...

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Retro TV W/C 9th October 2009

Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running...

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Fashion important in Rome-set films

Looks of women have memorable place in pics Leave it to Fellini to stage an ecclesiastical fashion show. For the Italian maestro, it was a poke at the Catholic Church and a wink at the fashion industry. "Fellini always used...

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Celebrity birthdays for Sept. 27-Oct. 3

Sept. 27: Director Arthur Penn is 87. Actress Sada Thompson is 80. Actress Kathleen Nolan is 76. Actor Wilford Brimley is 75. Producer Don Cornelius (Soul Train) is 73. Singer-guitarist Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive...

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Celebrity birthdays for Sept. 27-Oct. 3 (AP)

By The Associated Press The Associated Press – 38 mins ago Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. Sept. 28: Actor William Windom ("Murder, She Wrote") is 86. Sept. 29: Actor Steve Forrest is 85. Guitarist Mike Pinera...

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Tourist caught carving name on Trevi Fountain

Rome, Sept. 15: A female Dutch tourist was caught by the Italian police carving her name with a pocket knife on the 17th century Trevi Fountain in the Italian capital, Rome. She was charged with damaging monuments but was not...

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Welcome Conventioneers

ed note - a very slightly NSFW repost from the 2006 Iowahawk archives. Happy 50th, Maury Kahn's Night Life Chicago!] Your No-Cover, No-Minimum Guide to the Seamier Side of 1959 Chicago With Your Cordial Host Dave BurgeFor the...

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Dynastic feud sullies image of Italy's king of cars

Revered Fiat tycoon accused of tax evasion and womanising He was the man who ran the Fiat empire for three decades, dated Rita Hayworth and was hailed as Italy's "last true gentleman" when 100,000 turned out for his funeral in...

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Italian Mafia business flourishes in crisis

Dubai: The Italian Mafia is expected to generate 200 billion euros (Dh1.04 trillion) in revenue this year after 170 billion euros in 2008. This amount was estimated by Italy's anti-Mafia prosecutor Piero Grasso in a recent...

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Leave the Midwest behind at chef Michael Smith's rustic — and cheeky — taverna, Extra Virgin

With Extra Virgin, chef Michael Smith has finally brought not only the flavors but the feel of his beloved southern European trattorias and tavernas to Kansas City. From the vibrant colors — tomato red polished Venetian plaster...

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