Villa La Gaeta
Situated on the prominent Gaeta peninsula, on the shore of Lake Como, the famous Liberty style villa was used in the film Casino Royale as the residence of Mr White.
Streetwise
Streetwise is a 1984 documentary that looks at the life and lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
Lipstick
Lipstick is a film that follows a fashion model who is raped by her sister's music teacher. Upon his acquittal in court, he rapes her sister, leading her to enact a brutal revenge.
Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University is the oldest of higher education in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in Europe.
Nudibranch
Nudibranch are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs that shed their shells after their larval stage.
Codex Gigas
The Codex Gigas is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. It is thought to have been created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). During the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the entire collection was stolen by the Swedish army as plunder and now it is preserved at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. It is also known as the Devil's Bible because of a large illustration of the devil on the inside and the legend surrounding its creation.
Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film, the eighth in the James Bond series. The boat chase was filmed on the Louisiana bayou, with some interruption caused by flooding. 26 boats were built by the Glastron boat company for the film. Seventeen were destroyed during rehearsals. The speedboat jump scene over the bayou, filmed with the assistance of a specially-constructed ramp, unintentionally set a Guinness World Record at the time with 110 feet (34 m) cleared. Unfortunately, the waves created by the impact caused the following boat to flip over.
Felice Quinto
Felice Quinto was an Italian photographer. He was known for his photographs of celebrities and often referred to as the king of paparazzi. It is reported that he was the inspiration of the paparazzi character in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita.
Axel Munthe
Axel Munthe was a true Renaissance man, a scientist, and doctor as well as a poet who was a friend of Henry James, Somerset Maugham, and others. Munthe first came to Capri in 1885. He built his villa on the ruins of an ancient Chapel dedicated to San Michele, following a series of sketches made on a wall. The result was a building articulated on various levels: the study is on the first floor, the loggia crosses pergolas and columns to reach a circular viewpoint which looks out across the Bay of Naples. In Villa San Michele a number of ancient artifacts are displayed - objects found by Munthe in Capri, Anacapri and elsewhere, some of which donated by friends. There are fragments of sarcophaguses, busts, Roman paving, marble and columns can be seen. In the garden there is a Greek tomb and a granite Sphinx which gazes out over the whole Island of Capri.
The Telephone Booth Indian
The Telephone Booth Indian is a book by A.J. Liebling. Originally published in 1942, this sinewy compendium opens the door to the gritty underworld of grifters, showmen and hustlers from a bygone era of deadpan humor, decadent bonhomie and vigorous one-upmanship. With affectionate aplomb, Liebling introduces us to the colorful if unscrupulous denizens of Broadway’s Jollity Building, whose names alone are reminiscent of Garbage Pail Kids: Paddy the Booster, Acid Test Ike, Lotsandlots, Judge Horumph, Count de Pennies and Marty the Clutch (so named for his "custom of mangling people’s fingers when he shakes hands with them"). The "telephone booth Indians" moniker refers to promoters so pressed for cash that they must conduct their wheeling and dealing from one of the lobby’s eight coin-box phone booths. While it’s riveting to learn about the humble, hardscrabble beginnings of the Shubert brothers, what’s most memorable about this masterpiece is the nostalgia Liebling evokes in his reader for larger-than-life characters such as the sartorial peacock Roy Wilson Howard, a newsman whose self-control on the telephone Liebling irresistibly likens to that "of a fat woman waving away a tray of chocolate eclairs."