Luis Rubiales, classy guy. Here he's celebrating with his beloved gonads during the Spain-England World Cup final. People around him pretend to ignore him.
#RubialesMustGo
Just found The French Connection on a small TV channel, Talking Pictures TV. Can’t stop watching this movie. The cat-and-mouse game between Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey in the New York underground is unmissable.
#cinema
I appreciate Michael Shannon a lot as an actor. He’s taking part in the actors strike, in the States, and I appreciate him even more now.
#WorkersRights #RightToStrike
"Italian people, at the back of their mind, always think if you're winning, you're cheating. Maybe you're friends with the referee. If you're doing well, something is wrong."
-- Marco Tardelli
#Italy
Fast & Furious. Say what you want, but Tokyo Drift is the only one I can watch and rewatch. Roger Ebert wrote "Good, old-fashioned genre filmmaking done in a no-nonsense, unpretentious style". #fastandfurious
Clarence took its name from the angel in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra. In the movie, the character played by James Stewart is thinking of taking his own life when Clarence (the angel) visits him and shows him how much worse his city would have been without him. Clarence saves him.
Clarence - the website - was launched properly, with a marketing campaign that included throwing t-shirts to nerds at an IT show in Milan (see picture), and the community seemed destined to take off. But it never really did, and within a few years the virtual city it hosted looked more and more like
Around year 2000, Clarence was an Italian social media platform, or maybe not. It was very much like GeoCities: a virtual city where you could take an address and build your web page or website based on your interests. Very little technical knowledge required.
Clarence took its name from the angel in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra. In the movie, the character played by James Stewart is thinking of taking his own life when Clarence (the angel) visits him and shows him how much worse his city would have been without him. Clarence saves him.
Around year 2000, Clarence was an Italian social media platform, or maybe not. It was very much like GeoCities: a virtual city where you could take an address and build your web page or website based on your interests. Very little technical knowledge required.
Watching Croatia-Brazil at the World Cup, it’s hard to consider Croatia the underdogs: they were in the final four year ago. That’s a very quick rise to world football domination, considering Croatia became independent only in 1991!
#worldcup202