John Bleasdale

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Nicole Avant, film producer, activist and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, was at Taormina Film Festival on Friday to receive an award for the film “The Triple Six Eight,” which tells the true story of the only Black female regiment in the American army during World War II. Variety sat down with her earlier in the day. What are you working on at the moment? I have a few things on my slate.

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David Lynch’s Family Considering Publishing Final Script So Fans “Can Sit With His Ideas”Although David Lynch died before he could bring his final script to the screen, his family hopes to share the work with his fans. Following the …

2 weeks ago | variety.com | John Bleasdale

“I’m sure you can throw curly ones,” Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush says as we sit down to talk at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He’s wearing a Mambo Loud shirt of remarkable color and is here to receive a Taormina Excellence Award as well as present his new thriller “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” in which he stars as a judge recovering from a stroke in a care home and tormented by a malign, baby-doll-wielding John Lithgow.

2 weeks ago | variety.com | John Bleasdale

Martin Scorsese played up his Sicilian roots and the impact of waves of immigration on the United States as he received a lifetime achievement award Thursday evening at the Taormina Film Festival. “With the exception of Native Americans, we’re all either immigrants, children of immigrants or descendants of immigrants,” Scorsese said from the stage of Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theatre on a balmy evening with Sicily’s Mt. Etna volcano in the backdrop. “The country is very young.

2 weeks ago | currently.att.yahoo.com | John Bleasdale

Martin Scorsese played up his Sicilian roots and the impact of waves of immigration on the United States as he received a lifetime achievement award Thursday evening at the Taormina Film Festival. “With the exception of Native Americans, we’re all either immigrants, children of immigrants or descendants of immigrants,” Scorsese said from the stage of Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theatre on a balmy evening with Sicily’s Mt. Etna volcano in the backdrop.