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She appeared on screen with Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner and Audrey Hepburn; starred in films by Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and François Truffaut; and imbued every character she played with her native intelligence and elegance. Now, at the age 95, her fascinating life both on and off the screen is the subject of a new documentary by an Italian filmmaker. …
Immigrants are the foundation of this great nation of America. When Columbus landed on the East Coast, any Italian betting man would lay a wager that he taught the Native Americans how to make a good gravy. Our Italian mothers throughout the centuries have handed that tradition down for two reasons. One, so that there children would eat, and second …
On a sun-drenched April afternoon in Las Vegas, as Dr. Barbara Frajola Atkinson shares what she knows about her Italian heritage, the windows in her third-floor corner office whistle in the wind. Outside, on Charleston Boulevard, horns briefly blare as a fender bender is averted, but Atkinson, the founding dean of the UNLV School of Medicine, ignores the traffic havoc …
I’ve been thinking about sharing what I believe will be two comforting subjects for our readers. Comforting has different meanings to different people, however, as the focus of this magazine centers on Italians and Italian American’s, I am pretty sure both of these thoughts and subjects will appeal to all readers regardless of age, gender, or location. The first subject …