The Organizer Mario Monicelli was one of the chief architects of the style that came to be known as commedia all'Italiana, a school of biting social, sexual and political satire that flourished as Italy pulled itself out of the disaster of World War II and entered, in the mid-'50s, a period of rapid economic growth and cultural change. Monicelli,...

If Rossini had been in the audience on Thursday night at the Harry de Jur Playhouse, he would surely have found the stylish and witty new production of ''Il Signor Bruschino'' by the Gotham Chamber Opera as cheekily funny as everyone else did. The revival was overdue. ''Il Signor Bruschino,'' the last of five one-act farces Rossini wrote for the...

Jackie Onassis once got a court order to keep Ron Galella 25 feet away from her or her children. Marlon Brando once broke his jaw and knocked out four of his teeth. Brigitte Bardot once enlisted some friends to soak him with a hose. Richard Burton's bodyguards once roughed him up and had him tossed in a Mexican jail. For years, maybe even decades,...
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28. september 1924 i Fontana Liri, Italien - 19. december 1996 i Paris, Frankrig) var en italiensk filmskuespiller.
Han arbejdede bl.a. som skuespiller ved Luchino Viscontis Eliseo-teater, og viste at han beherskede både klassisk og moderne spillestil. Han filmdebuterede i 1947, og blev en populær hovedrolleindehaver i en række italienske film i 1950'erne. Han fik et internationalt gennembrud i Viscontis Le notti bianche (Hvide nætter, 1957), og dermed begyndte en af de mest omfattende, alsidige og produktive skuespillerkarrierer i moderne filmhistorie. I løbet af nogle få år spillede han centrale roller i epokegørende film som Federico Fellinis La dolce vita (Det søde liv, 1960) og 8½ (1963), og Michelangelo Antonionis La notte (Natten, 1961). I disse film var han personificeringen af den moderne europæiske mand, men tilførte samtidig alle sine roller en kompleksitet og en vis distance. Fold ud