What do Giorgio Simonelli and Lawrence Kasdan have in common?
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Giorgio Simonelli Born in Rome, Simonelli obtained a high school diploma in business studies, then he started working as a journalist, and even as a film critic, for the weekly magazines "Avvenimento" and "Gente nostra". In 1928, at 22, he made his directorial debut co-directing with Nicola Fausto Neroni "Maratona" and two years later he was among the screenwriters of the first Italian talking film, "The Song of Love" by Gennaro Righelli. From 1934 Simonelli mainly devoted himself to the film editing, then, since 1940, he reprised his activity as a director specializing in comedy films of great commercial success, in which he directed some of the more popular actors of the period, including Totò, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Nino Taranto, Renato Rascel, Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Macario, Alberto Sordi and Aldo Fabrizi. He concluded his career by signing many successful works interpreted by the comedy duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. His last film was the western-parody "Two Sons of Ringo", in which just before the end of filming he was replaced by Giuliano Carnimeo for health reasons.
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Lawrence Kasdan Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known as co-writer of the films "The Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Return of the Jedi". Kasdan co-wrote the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy film "", and will co-write the series' Han Solo spin-off film.
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Cissy King Claire Yvonne “Cissy” King (born January 3, 1946) is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on "The Lawrence Welk Show" television program.
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Simone Sello Simone Sello (born July 4, 1968) is an Italian born guitarist, music producer, songwriter and music journalist. He is known for his work with the Sanremo Festival Orchestra, Chicanery, Billy Sheehan, Aaron Carter, Disney, Hannah Montana, Vasco Rossi, Amber Lily, and Warren Cuccurullo, both as a producer and guitarist; and as a journalist for the magazines "Chitarre", "Strumenti Musicali", "Accordo" and "Ganzo". He is an owner of music production companies RedRum Productions, Session Recording and MusicDemoProducer.com, with each company oriented towards a distinct clientele. RedRum Productions is geared towards contemporary music production for artists, film and TV; Session Recording mostly caters to projects outside the Los Angeles area, and MusicDemoProducer.com aims to bring a simplified approach to professional music production to any user, over the web.
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Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (] ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music.
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Marco Simone Marco Simone (born 7 January 1969, in Castellanza) is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a striker or winger. He most prominently played for A.C. Milan, with whom he won four Italian Serie A championships and two UEFA Champions League titles, as well as French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco. Simone played four games for the Italian national team.
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Lawrence Giustiniani Lawrence Justinian, C.R.S.A. (Italian: "Lorenzo Giustiniani" , 1 July 1381 – 8 January 1456), is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was a canon regular who was appointed as a bishop and became the first Patriarch of Venice.
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Pietro Lorenzetti Pietro Lorenzetti (or Pietro Laurati; c. 1280 – 1348) was an Italian painter, active between c.1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements, the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.
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Jake Kasdan Jacob "Jake" Kasdan (born October 28, 1974) is an American television and film director and occasional actor.
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Kaja Silverman Kaja Silverman (born September 16, 1947) is an American art historian and critical theorist. She is currently the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Thereafter, she taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and for many years was the Class of 1940 Professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, and is currently the holder of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Antonio Lupatelli Antonio Lupatelli (born 1930 in Busseto, Italy) is an Italian illustrator and writer who works under the pseudonym of Tony Wolf.
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Larry Stanton Larry Stanton (June 21, 1947 — October 18, 1984) was a Manhattan-based portrait artist whose work was championed by David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler, Ellsworth Kelly and others. He was a handsome and charismatic gay man who lived in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Giorgio Levi Della Vida Giorgio Levi Della Vida (21 August 1886, Venice – 25 December 1967, Rome) was an Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East.
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Bernie Katz Bernard Daniel Katz, born Bernard Daniel Clifford, (12 August 1968 – 31 August 2017) was the long-serving manager of the Groucho Club. Katz was the author of "Soho Society" in 2008. He was nicknamed "The Prince of Soho" by Stephen Fry. He was the son of the notorious south London gangster Brian "Little Legs" Clifford.
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Dante Leonelli Dante Leonelli (born September 15, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American pioneer of kinetic light sculpture and a former tutor at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies.
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Giorgio Ursi Giorgio Ursi (1 September 1943 – 8 October 1982) was a racing cyclist from Italy. He was of Slovene ethnicity, and was also known as Jurij Uršič.
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Giulio Giorello Giulio Giorello (] ; born 14 May 1945, Milan) is an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist.
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Andreas Ravelli Andreas Ravelli (born 13 August 1959) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a central defender.
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ILAUD ILAUD (or I.L.A. & U.D. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design) is the acronym for International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design. Founded by Giancarlo De Carlo in 1976 on the same concepts that led to the founding of Team X. The laboratory in 27 years of existence has accepted some of the most prestigious international architects, often personal friends and colleagues of the director Giancarlo De Carlo (among others Peter and Allison Smithson Sverre Fehn Renzo Piano, and so on.) Bringing students from around the world to think and design in Italy. The ILAUD took place in a systematic way each year during the summertime in some of the most picturesque Italian city such as Venice, Siena and Urbino. While in the Tuscan city, the ILAUD participants studied the recovery of the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena.
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Anthony Kenny Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 16 March 1931) is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of modern philosophy of traditional Thomism. He is one of the executors of Wittgenstein's literary estate. He is a former President of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Karole Vail Karole P. B. Vail (born 1959) is an American museum director, curator and writer. Since 2017, she has been the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Director for Italy. Prior to this appointment, she worked on the curatorial staff at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York for 20 years.