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    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
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    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome

    Written by Shawn Levy

    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan

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    About this audiobook

    From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian" a global synonym for taste, style, and flair. A confluence of cultural contributions created a bright, burning moment in history: it was the heyday of fashion icons such as Pucci and Brioni. Rome's huge movie studio, Cinecitta, attracted a dizzying array of stars, from Charleton Heston, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Frank Sinatra to that stunning and combustible couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

    Fashionistas, exiles, moguls, and martyrs flocked to Rome hoping for a chance to experience and indulge in the glow of old money, new stars, fast cars, wanton libidos, and brazen news photographers. The scene was captured nowhere better than in Federico Fellini's masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, starring Marcello Mastroianni and the Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg.

    Gossipy, colorful, and richly informed, Dolce Vita Confidential re-creates Rome's stunning ascent with vivid and compelling tales of its glitterati and artists, down to every last outrageous detail of the city's magnificent transformation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515983392
    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
    Author

    Shawn Levy

    Shawn Levy is the author of King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, Ready, Steady, Go! and Rat Pack Confidential. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Film Comment and Pulse!. He is a former senior editor of American Film.

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    • 3/5
      Uneven, but enjoyable- interesting topic delivered in an unorganized way by a narrator who sounds like they're delivering the news on a gas station TV
    • 1/5
      I really wanted to be able to listen to the book, but the reader is so awful that I couldn’t make it through the introduction. So I just bought it and read it, which was a much better experience.
    • 4/5
      I received this book for free through Goodreads' First Reads.This isn't a book I would typically pick up, but I still enjoyed it. It was really fun learning about Rome in the 50's. I had no idea it was that crazy. The author's writing style was very engaging, making it a pleasurable read. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about Rome during this time period.
    • 4/5
      I received this book for free through Goodreads' First Reads.This isn't a book I would typically pick up, but I still enjoyed it. It was really fun learning about Rome in the 50's. I had no idea it was that crazy. The author's writing style was very engaging, making it a pleasurable read. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about Rome during this time period.
    • 4/5
      a study or look into the people and cultural that made Rome the center of the movie and fashion world in the 50's and 60's. a fun read