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Obituary: Alberto Sordi Comic icon of Italian cinema
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ALBERTO SORDI began his cinematic career as the Italian voice of
Oliver Hardy, a role in which he captured the pronunciation
difficulties of Anglo-Saxons when first getting to grips with the
Italian language. He ended it as a comic icon for his portrayal of
the vices, vanities and foibles of his fellow countrymen. His career
spanned 65 years and almost 200 films and represented the evolution
of petit bourgeois Italy as the country moved from economic
depression after the Second World War through the boom years of the
1950s and the radical social transformations of the 1960s and 1970s.
Sordi ...
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LIBYA: HEAD-TO-HEAD BETWEEN SORGENTE AND LAFICO.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...in prestigious buildings, and Lafico, the financial vehicle of Tripoli. The issue at stake is the conquest of the Galleria Alberto Sordi in Rome (Galleria Colonna) that the Toti family wants to sale. This was reported on the IlSole24Ore, which emphasized that...
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Subprime mortgage crisis is one heck of a mess.(EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK)(management of subprime crises)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal
; This is a fine mess you've got us in, Stanley, Oliver Hardy always said to Stan Laurel when one of their schemes went bad in their old 1930s comedy film shorts. Well, needless to say, this...
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Stimulus package 101: one person's view.(Column)
Magazine article from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
; Nearly 80 years ago, Oliver Hardy moaned to Stan Laurel, Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into. Well guess what, we could be saying the same thing...
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Beyond 'Life is Beautiful': Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Celli writes that the Italian actor-director 'has gained lonely status. He is not only the heir to comedians like Tot o or Alberto Sordi and directors like Federico Fellini, but also a de facto ambassador of Italian culture' (p. 13).Whereas comparisons between...
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Il corpo che parla: la gestualita e l'italiano fra tradizione teatrale e didattica della lingua.
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...della cultura italiana contemporanea, le idee di teatro e gestualita si associano immediatamente a nomi di attori come Toto, Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Anna Magnani, Nino Manfredi e altri interpreti, ormai scomparsi, che hanno segnato...
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Poverty, misery, war and other comic material: an interview with Mario Monicelli.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...last of the five 'musketeers of Italian comedy. He was preceded by Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, and Alberto Sordi, all actors Monicelli worked with frequently, recombining their unforgettable faces in wry, bittersweet, sometimes slapstick...
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Foreign adventures: 'God Grew Tired of Us' moves from Sudan to Pittsburgh; 'Mafioso' from Milan to a Sicilian village.(MOVIES)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...It's worth seeing the movie just to encounter his story. If you go to Mafioso to enjoy the huge comic gifts of Italian actor Alberto Sordi (remembered from Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni and To Bed or Not to Bed ), this reissue of Alberto Lattuada's 1962 success...
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Stardust memories: Darius Kadivar recalls the story of Soraya, the beautiful but tragic second wife of Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran.(Biography)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...was to be supported by a cast of talented and recognised actors such as rising Irish star Richard Harris and Italian comic Alberto Sordi. Indovina was to write part of the script, which was read to the princess for final approval. After some hesitation, Soraya...
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Comedy, communism, and pastry: an interview with Nanni Moretti. (Italian filmmaker and actor) (Interview)
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...his distaste for an earlier, more flamboyant Italian comic tradition, since his alter ego views the venerable comic actor Alberto Sordi as the embodiment of middle class complacency. Although this view of Sordi was in many respects unfair - Sordi's ebullient...
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Opinion divided on strength of rand: opinions on the strengthening South African rand are almost equally divided--some see it as a sign of confidence in the country; others as a short-cut to economic disaster. Who is right? Tom Nevin has been finding out.(South Africa)
Magazine article from: African Business
; This is another fine mess you've gotten us into, Stanley, as Oliver Hardy famously used to say to his side-kick, Stan Laurel in the 1950s comedy series, Laurel and Hardy. It could be South Africa talking...
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