Scarlett Johansen and Anthony Paglia will be in the film of Arthur Miller’s ‘A View from The Bridge’.
Naomi Watts and Ed Norton will be in the adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Painted Veil’.
Sir Ian McKellen and Alfred Molina will co-star in Ron Howard’s adaptation of“The Da Vinci Code.” The two join Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
The Da Vinci Code, was named book of the year at the British Book Awards. Dan Brown said “For the record, it is a novel.”
Check out the luxurious villa hotel on the Adriatic coast of Italy (very Zen meets Africa) http://www.carducci76.it/
For more cycling, walking, and eating tours of Italy, France and South Africa, check out the UK site : http://www.winetrails.co.uk/winetrailflash.htm
Go to http://www.seatoskyholidays.com/intro.htm for ‘the supreme heliskiing experience with a heicopter and a luxurious megayacht Absinthe’ based in Canada.
For the ‘hot scoop on four of Europe’s greatest treasure troves. Amsterdam, Antwerp, Zürich and Vienna check out http://www.coolcapitals.com/
The board of La Scala chose Frenchman Stephane Lissner as general manager and artistic director, putting a non-Italian in charge of the Milanese opera house for the first time in its history.
Vegas Supernova is this year’s annual spring promotion at Selfridges in London. David LaChapelle has done the neon-bright, kitschy windows; production designer Michael Howells has created a wedding chapel and cocktail lounge set, and photographer Luca Pizzaroni is showing his shots of Las Vegas.
Giorgio Armani, Alexander McQueen, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace all showed home collections at the latest Salone del Mobile in Milan. And while Stella McCartney has yet to launch a home collection, the designer’s husband, Alasdhair Willis, is one of the founders of the a new furniture design and manufacturing company Established & Sons, which aims to nurture young talent.
Contemporary architect and designer Alessandro Mendini showed the furniture he designed for the new Byblos Art Hotel, a 17th-century villa-hotel, museum and Chenot spa opening next month in Milan. The hotel is a veritable museum, with contemporary works owned by the Facchinis, by artists such as Vanessa Beecroft, Anish Kapoor, Peter Halley and Sol LeWitt.
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