Watched A BELL FOR ADANO (1945). Americans invade Sicily, come to Adano and impose order. The grateful town needs food and a new bell. John Hodiak, Gene Tierney, William Bendix (Bendix is good). I liked half of it. Features Marcel Dalio and on my list of films made by French exiles in Hollywood.
@jaybeans.bsky.social This is probably old hat to you, but: I drank one of these nonalcoholic aperitivi at at a bar in Sicily this evening, and it was fantastic!
Brought Colatatura de Alici back from Sicily (essence of anchovies). Tell me how to put it to good use please!
The Catholic Church has to adapt to the declining number of holy water-hens by use of reducing devices in their fonts; Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra, Noto, Sicily.
look the man might be a choke artist in the postseason but you can’t argue with his performance against Rommel’s panzers during the liberation of Sicily
Thanks for that Ian. Yes he managed to survive Oudna, Sicily, and Arnhem!
[continues] I took off from North African in July 1943, for a parachute operation in Sicily, as a cameraman, but did not reach my objective as the aircraft was hit by flak, the Pilot being wounded and the plane damaged, so we returned to our airfield in North Africa. [cont]
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr review – a masterly tale of African refugees in rural Sicily
The multilayered second novel by the Senegal-born author is a powerful plea for compassion in the face of hatred
