Maschi contro Femmine

I just finished work on a film here in Italy, Maschi contro Femmine.  I played the part of Captain William T. Bell in the romantic comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi and produced by Italian International Film for RAI Cinema.  It will be in the theatres in late October here in Italy.
My scenes were part of [...]

ELEW at Ischia Global Fest

I arrived to the Ischia Global Fest, and saw Eric Lewis, now known as ELEW.
First saw him at TED and I catch up with him on TechCrunch.
Amazing.
Watch from TED:

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Broomfield Colorado Hometown USA

I grew up in Broomfield Colorado, and just found the most beautiful documentary at Archive.org.

Here are the comments that I left on archive.org:
PRODUCT OF A PLANNED COMMUNITY
This was amazing to see and to find.  I was raised in Broomfield.  I was 5 years old when my family moved there, and started attending Kohl Elementary School, [...]

Tati, McVicar e Verdone

I attended a marvelous screening from the Museum of Cinema here in Torino yesterday. Jacques Tati’s “Playtime”, an extraordinary film achievement that had recently been restored. The great film, putting Tati’s character Hurlot in a “modern” Paris was introduced and presented by one of Italy’s modern filmmaking treasures, Carlo Verdone.
Carlo Verdone has consistently [...]

Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry

Without a studio audience, Craig Ferguson interviews Stephen Fry for the entire show.  Thanks Craig.

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Former Loves

I was thinking back to old times, to former loves today. I came across a picture of a baby that I once had. It was back in 1991.
She was gorgeous, quite advanced at the time with 80 mb of hard disk storage, and I could upgrade to 8 whopping mb of ram.
Oh, the feel [...]

Visiting Ronn in Rome

I got to visit Ronn last month in Rome as he is doing the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars….”Ballando Con Le Stelle”. He is doing great!
I surprised him in rehearsal, and his partner was very surprised. Ronn knows me well, so he enjoyed the moment.

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Happy New Year

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Noir Fest in Courmayeur

Marco and Antonio Manetti, or the Manetti Bros as they are known, gave me a great tip to come up to the Courmayeur Noir Fest in the Aosta Valley. While the winter wind chilled us, and the snow coated the city and streets with a dusty white, the dark side of cinema was being [...]

On the set in Rome

I am working on another prime time feature film here.  I started a couple of weeks ago playing “Omar de Luigi”, a mysterious character in the light hearted mystery miniseries “Innocenti and Buonadonna”.  This film is directed by Giulio Manfredonia, with Max Tortora and Antonello Fassari.  Produced by Publispei, it should be on the air [...]

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