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Under The Tuscan Sun (film)
''Under the Tuscan Sun'' is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama written, produced, and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane. Based on Frances Mayes' 1996 memoir of the same name, the film is about a recently divorced writer who buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will lead to a change in her life. Lane received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance. Plot Frances Mayes is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life takes an unexpected turn when she learns that her husband has been cheating on her. The husband, who had been working on his writing and had no income, ironically, was allowed to petition for alimony. As a one-time settlement, however, the agreement was for Frances to quitclaim her 1/2 ownership of the home. The divorce—and the loss of her house to her ex-husband and his much-younger, pregnant new partner—leaves her depressed and unable to write. Her best fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Wells
Audrey Ann Wells (''née'' Lederer; January 25, 1960 – October 4, 2018) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Her 1999 film ''Guinevere'' won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Early life and education Wells was born in San Francisco, California, to Austrian-American psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer and Romanian-American psychologist Alexandra Botwin Lederer; her parents fled World War II-era Europe. She had Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. Career Wells worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She wrote a number of successful screenplays and directed three for which she had created the script. Her works were primarily comedies and romance films. Among her films are '' The Truth About Cats & Dogs'' (1996) and '' Under the Tuscan Sun'' (2003), both of which she also produced. Her 1999 film ''Guinevere'' won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortona
Cortona (, ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo. Toponymy Cortona is derived from Latin Cortōna, and from Etruscan language, Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌓𐌕𐌖𐌍 (''curtun'', 𐌍𐌖𐌕𐌓𐌖𐌂 in Etruscan). According to linguist Helmut Rix, ethnic in Etruscan was ''curthute'' (''curѳute''), attested as a gentile in an inscription from Chiusi, in the province of Siena. History Etruscan period An Etruscan civilization, Etruscan presence is found archaeologically from the late Villanovan while there is no such evidence of an Umbrian origin of the city. Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC it became an important member of the Etruscan League or a ''lucumonia''. Most likely, Cortona became a very powerful city thanks to its strategic position, which allowed a wide control of nearby territory. In the 4th century BC the Etruscans built the imposing walls that su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Bucatinsky
Dan Bucatinsky () is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series ''Scandal'', for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's '' Marry Me'', as well as the revived HBO series '' The Comeback'', which he also executive produced. Early life and education Bucatinsky is the son of Jewish parents Julio and Myriam. Their families moved from Russia and Poland to Argentina. He is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Career Bucatinsky was the writer, producer and star of the 2001 romantic comedy '' All Over the Guy''. He has appeared in episodes of many television series, including ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''Weeds'', ''Friends'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''That '80s Show'', ''Frasier'', and ''Will & Grace'', as well as an episode of ''Grey's Anatomy'' (where Bucatinsky also serves as a consulting producer). He executive produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Pelka
Valentine Pelka (born 23 February 1956) is an English actor who has starred in film and on television. Biography Pelka was born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, to a Polish engineer father (Tadeusz Pelka) and an Irish actress (Alma Herley). She is the niece of actor Randal Herley, and her maternal grandparents were WWI veteran and ophthalmologist Randal Herley and Irish singer Annie ( Mahon) Herley. He attended St Michael's College, Leeds (now part of Mount St Mary's Catholic High School, Leeds). His sister, Kazia, is an actress who starred on ''Brookside'', among other television programmes. He made guest appearances on '' Highlander: The Series'' as Kronos, an enemy of Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) and former acolyte of Methos (Peter Wingfield) in the episodes "Comes a Horseman", " Revelations 6:8", "Archangel" and " Not To Be". He starred in the 1986 TV series ''Crossbow'' (UK, William Tell) as Roland. He guest-starred in the 1990 TV series ''Zorro'' in the episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Nobile
Roberto Nobile (11 November 1947 – 30 July 2022) was an Italian actor. Selected filmography References External links * 1947 births 2022 deaths Italian male film actors Male actors from Verona Italian male television actors 20th-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian male actors Italian anarchists {{Italy-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Zagaria
Anita Zagaria (born 27 June 1954) is an Italian actress. She has appeared in more than eighty films and TV series since 1982. Selected filmography References External links * 1954 births Living people Italian film actresses {{Italy-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawel Szajda
Pawel B. Szajda ( ; born January 13, 1982) is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in '' Under the Tuscan Sun'', ''Generation Kill'', '' Tatarak,'' and as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in the third season of the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series '' For All Mankind.'' Early life and education Szajda was born and raised in Farmington, Connecticut. Szajda's maternal great-grandfather left Poland for Chicago in 1912, two years prior to the outbreak of World War I. He married Szajda's Polish grandmother, had children, and, after the war ended, moved to Poland. In 1964, the family moved back to the United States, which is where Szajda's mother graduated from college and then returned with the family to Poland. In Poland, she met Szajda's father, and they had Szajda's older sister, Barbara, and two older brothers, Marcin and Adam. Following the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, Szajda's family relocated to the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulia Steigerwalt
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt (born 13 April 1982) is an American-born Italian screenwriter, director, and former actress. Life and career Born in Houston, Texas, United States, the daughter of a psychologist mother, Steigerwalt graduated in phylosophy with a Film Art Management major at the Sapienza University of Rome. While still in high school, Steigerwalt made her film debut playing the main female role in Gabriele Muccino's '' But Forever in My Mind'', and later appeared in Muccino's '' The Last Kiss''. After making her English-speaking debut in Audrey Wells' comedy-drama '' Under the Tuscan Sun'' and appearing in some other films, notably Volfango De Biasi's teen comedies '' Come tu mi vuoi'' and ''Iago'', starting from 2012 Steigerwalt focused on screenwriting, taking various courses and getting a certificate in Feature Film Writing from UCLA. Steigerwalt made her screenwriting debut in 2013, with the '' Paz!'' sequel ''Fiabeschi torna a casa''. In 2022, she made her dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and singer. Life and career Gerini was born in the city of Rome in Italy in 1971. When she was 13 she won the 1985 Miss Teenager beauty contest. Her acting debut came a year later in ''La ballata di Eva.'' She then had various roles in films including ''Roba da Ricchi'' (1987), directed by Sergio Corbucci. In 1990, when she was 19, she appeared on the popular TV show '' Non è la Rai''. Gerini's first major role was in Pasquale Pozzessere's ''Il padre e il figlio'' (1994). She later moved to Paris to learn French for several months, frequently travelling between Italy and France while still studying sociology at university. At 22 she returned to Italy and got a role as protagonist in ''Angelo e Beatrice'', a theatrical work by Francesco Apolloni presented on stage at the Theater Coliseum in Rome, where director and actor Carlo Verdone noticed her. The encounter with Verdone produced '' Viaggi di nozze'' (1995), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the ''commedia all'italiana'' ("Italian-style comedy"). He was nominated six times for an Academy Awards, Oscar, and received the Golden Lion for his career. Biography The early times Monicelli was born in Rome to an upper-class family from Ostiglia,. a town in the province of Mantua, in the Northern Italy, Northern Italian region of Lombardy. He was the second of the five children of Tomaso Monicelli, a journalist, and Maria Carreri, a housewife. His older half-brother, Giorgio (whose mother was actress Elisa Severi), worked as a writer and translator. An older brother, Franco, was a journalist. Monicelli was raised in Rome, Viareggio (Tuscany) and Milan.. He lived a mostly carefree youth. Many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in ''My Friends (film), My Friends'' (1975) were inspired by his own experiences during his years in Tuscany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Riotta
Vincenzo Ricotta (born 14 October 1959), professionally known as Vincent Riotta, is a British actor. Career Riotta studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He went on to perform in various stage plays, such as William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's ''Romeo'', which was held at the Young Vic, Tennessee Williams' ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', held at the Leicester Haymarket. Also, the twin roles of ''The Corsican Brothers'' at the Abbey in Dublin, and the lead role of ''Fridays at Seven'' at the Court Theatre in West Hollywood. His more notable television appearances include UK soap ''Coronation Street'', ''The Bill'' (1990, series 6 episode 52 ''Close to Home'') for Thames Television, ''New Tricks'' (2013, series 10 episode ''Rock the Boat'' parts one & two) for the BBC, ''JAG (TV series), JAG'' for NBC, ''Monk (TV series), Monk'' for USA Network, and ''Alias (TV series), Alias'' for American Broadcasting Company, ABC. In 2016 Riotta appeared in British mystery series ''Endeavo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
