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What’s Your Fancy: Monica Bellucci Shares Her 6 Essentials to Channel Maria Callas


What exactly does it take for the Italian actress to embody the opera legend on stage?
Maria Callas came back to life last month for one night only. More accurately, the Italian actress Monica Bellucci embodied La Divina at the Beacon Theatre in New York as part of a one-woman show directed by Tom Volf that sees her reciting Callas’s previously unpublished letters.

More such tributes are coming in this Callas’s centennial year: No less a figure than Angelina Jolie is playing her in an announced biopic. Considering the late legend’s outsize hold on her rabid fan base of “Callas Crazoids,” Bellucci’s performance, which she has been doing on and off since 2019, is no easy task, but it registers as a sincere homage from one diva to another.
She’s an acclaimed performer in her own right and a fashion muse to many, including Michael Kors, who on the occasion of the show’s New York berth gathered a few friends of the house for a night at the theater and a celebratory toast afterward at the Carlyle Hotel. Here, Bellucci tells us the six essential products that helped her prepare and perform her Callas.

1Maria Callas As Carmen – Highlights
“I love them all, how could one not? But, there is a special place in my heart for Carmen, Hamburg 1962. In that record, I can hear a singer at the height of her career, but I can also feel a woman in her full femininity, at a moment in her life when she was abundantly energized.”

2Saint Laurent Saint Laurent sheer-panel draped gown
“Maria Callas had a long-standing relationship with Saint-Laurent, and she wore the designer’s dresses to perform. I had the honor of wearing one of her YSL gowns for the shows! It was very powerful to put it on, it felt like I was slipping into her skin.”

3ASTR the Label ASTR the Label Bustier Satin Dress in Coral Yellow Floral at Nordstrom, Size X-LargeLike Callas, Bellucci swears by a little black dress. “The LBD is timeless, for all occasions, all ages and styles. Designers are still drawing and making them today. I love wearing them and Maria Callas wore them – and I think she would still enjoy them today.”
4Michael Kors Ruched Off-the-Shoulder Midi Dress
And, of course, Michael Kors carries a black dress Bellucci finds irresistible.”I love it because it is dateless, it could be a period piece or contemporary. That is the kind of fashion that I love: classic, sensual, elegant.”
5TOM FORD Velvet Orchid Eau de Parfum
Along with a black dress, Bellucci finds that aromas also help channel Maria Callas. “Someone gifted me the perfume that Maria wore, and I would put it on just before going on stage. I also listened to Carmen!
6LARQ Bottle PureVis™ 25oz – Monaco Blue
For the long performance, Bellucci relies on one simple essential to help with her stamina. “I speak on stage for on hour an a half. So I make sure to stay very hydrated. I drink a lot of water before the show and had a little bottle on stage, which helped me sustain my energy!”

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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