Monica Bellucci on Maria Callas: ‘I had the feeling that I could get in touch with her soul’
Bellucci’s brief first marriage (to photographer Claudio Carlos Basso) dates from her early years in fashion, but her marriage to Cassel lasted for 14 years. “Me and…
Would Your Majesty prefer a beaver or a giraffe? History’s strangest diplomatic gifts
A Giraffe from the Governor of Egypt to the King of France in 1826 Giraffes were a popular diplomatic gift in the renaissance. Lorenzo de’ Medici was…
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, review: Oliver Stone adds evidence to his conspiracy theories
“Conspiracy theories are now conspiracy facts,” declares Oliver Stone in his new documentary about the JFK assassination, 30 years after the rabble-rousing feature that made his position…