| "It's a Wrap!" |
Il Messagero March 31st 2001 At the presentation of the magazine (?) Via Condotti, Laudadio announces the party The "Gangs" of Scorsese make party at Cinecittą by SALVATORE TAVERNA Four orchestras jazz, eight hundred guests, a gigantic cake to the fragolines created by the teacher Vanni, four menł for the four angles of the world... Ladies and Gentlemen: Tonight, great party in the theater Five of Cinecittą for the end of the shooting of the film Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese. There will be Leo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. Special guest, it is rumoured, Robert De Niro. And a tide of carpenters, truccatori, hairdressers, tailors, cooks, propmen, operating, technical of the sound... Everybody those people whom have beaten, at least, a nail during her Roman workmanship. The news? It spreads her Happy Laudadio, president of Cinecittą, to the Coffee Greek, a stonesthrow from the volcanic Francis Gesualdi, general manager of the Holding. How come? Half Italian cinemas are gathered in the ancient coffee to introduce the last number of Street Municipal elegant magazine wanted by the president Gianni Battistoni. Few wisecracks and it is let loose polemic. «The young people, also to my times, I know always attracts from American 'sti», it thunders Alberto Deaf, osannato from everybody. «So much is true that me observing I have turned them An American in Rome». The climate is made red hot. «Too many film American», it pursues Gigi Great sustained by the intervention of the sweet princess Maria Pia Ruspoli. And Gianni Letta, author of a delicious article on the years ruggenti of Cinecittą, with his English style, softeggia. Until it is not found the scapegoat: Paul Ferrari, president of the Warner Bros. Him, other diplomat of class, falls through the tones: «The film of Muccino, Soldini and others are being all right. Me I wish that the Italian cinema keeps on reaping successes». Sees to the Greek: Paola Saluzzi, Henry Lucherini, Julia Manzł Goffredo Lombardo and Armando Trovajoli. To the prossomo round! The big party of Scorsese for the Cinecittą goodbye Night with the stars on the super-protected set Tonight the American director's party event who finishes the shooting of "Gangs of New York": "Here I have worked with the best artisans of the world" LAURA LAURENZI The Paradise party Square will be without " precedents ", it guarantees the invitation. Cheerful carousals are announced to Cinecittą on the set of the film tonight" Gangs of New York". E' the party of closing: Scorsese has finally ended his troubled and secret film ambientato in the slums in New York in half the eight hundred. An armored set, that reconstructed by Dante Ferretti, already scenografo of Fellini and today tested collaborator of Scorsese. Armored the set, to test of intruder, and armored the party of tonight, reserved exclusively to the cast, that gives life to the feuds among two opposite gangs of outlaw in a New York from last autumn it lacerates, hard, hungry and still without skyscrapers. A cast that enumerates Leonardo Of Caprio in the part of an Irish immigrant, the blonde Cameron Diaz in the cloths of a thief and prostitute of whom the protagonist is fallen in love but also Daniel Day Lewis, butcher and leader of the rival gang, more hundred secondary actors and also numerous appearances, some of which you/they have received to surprised the ambitissimo I invite. And that invitation: it seems anymore a flier long 40
centimeters. The title of the party, is read, it is" Wrap party
or Life among the simple ones. We will celebrate the whole
work of Martin Scorsese as well as of his troupe and
company of actors without precedents in the history." And
the music? "Exceptional interpreters with the best musicians
of every variety show and type from the four angles of the
globe terracqueo", he/she is always read on the cardboard. A
true night of the stars, therefore: Hollywood on the Tevere in
edition by night, worldly but pleasure-loving soprattuto. The
invitations, numbered, I/you/they are personally served as
Martin Scorsese, honored in the last months of the
Knighthood of Gran Bretagna Cross from the president of
the Republic Ciampi. The 20 and 30 the time when it will
have beginning the party, which will owe tassativamente to
finish not over the two, as you/he/she is specified on the
cardboard. The catering has been entrusted to Vanni, that
will prepare ethnic foods in style " melting " " pot ".
Impressive the supplies of champagne, wines and liqueurs":
alcoholic drinks of every type will be offered", it is promised.
E' in the legendary Theater Five, where Ferretti has
reconstructed an old factory of beer, the brothel Satana's
Circus, the fumeria of opium Chinese Pagoda and the fatal
crossroad of Paradise Square, that it will take place the
expected party.
«To Cinecittą I have been able to work with the best artisans
of the world», Scorsese has said reporting
himself/herself/itself to the Italian maestranzes with which
you/he/she has turned. Morning Felice Laudadio has reported
him/it yesterday, president of Cincecittą Holding spa, during a
press conference to the Greek Coffee in which the fifth
number of the magazine has been introduced " Street "
Municipal that, for the series "Italy that works", dedication a
long service to signature of Gianni Letta really to Cinecittą.
«I have decided to make here this movie he/she explains
Scorsese in the article of Gianni Letta because Cinecittą has
always had for me a special taste. E' a magic place.
Therefore, also being mine an American film, I have wanted
to add you this special magic all Italian». If Laudadio has
praised the rebirth of the cinema made in Italy, is a voice
against the American colonization raised by the director Gigi
Magni instead: «I am me foreigner in country, or are we in
America?». Alberto Sordi has told the times in which
«Cinecittą almost you/he/she didn't exist and Scipione the
African was turned: all Rome raced to make the appearance
to take those five liras a day. We have created a cinema that
school has done all over the world, from the nerorealismo to
reach America, a country that its cinema has renewed
passing for ours."
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