07.00 BST Moves and Pepsi, Harlem, New York, 1955A new retrospective of William Klein’s work explores the artist’s life and career, highlighting his development as an artist and the connections between his different practices. William Klein: YES is at the International Center of Photography, New York until 12 September. All photographs: William Klein/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 04.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961. Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock “Very alert, very smart, very talented, very ambitious.” That was the director William Wyler’s verdict after watching a screen test for Roman Holiday by a young chorus girl called […]
15.58 GMT Last modified on Mon 9 Nov 2020 16.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elliott Erwitt: ‘The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.’ Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Elliott Erwitt is a man of few words – but to get the 92-year-old photographer […]
05.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Naples is already part of me, as I am of Naples.’ Composite: Getty/Photo By Eduardo Castaldo ©Wildside/Umedia 2018 Neapolitan dialect plays an important role in your novels. Could one say that you are doing a work of translation, hearing the voices of these characters in […]
10.00 BST Last modified on Wed 3 Jun 2020 10.32 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘A vessel of blistering rage but tender and vulnerable, too’ … Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus at the Donmar. Photograph: Johan Persson Coriolanus is a play that’s more respected than revered. Why does it have a rather difficult […]
Wait til I exhale my flows ability The Dragon the fire the gold and shimmery I burn with desire in cold assemblies My voice thru da wire control the energy MC OG Chicago and Sicily Rap everywhere see me Rome like Italy Microphones gets blown in close proximity I don’t stop kickin’ these goals, without […]
[Verse 1] When the lights go dim Everything around us begins All the people run to get a piece of the sin Everybody wanna be the star of the spin And the city’s full of folks that are in it just to win Bones break fast on the chain, let em know In deep thoughts, […]
Lyrics Wrekonize – Clones When the lights go dim Everything around us begins All the people run to get a piece of the sin Everybody wanna be the star of the spin And the city’s full of folks that are in it just to win Bones break fast on the chain, let em know In […]
Pilate: And so the king is once again my guest And why is this? Was Herod unimpressed? Caiaphas: We turn to Rome to sentence Nazareth We have no law to put a man to death We need him crucified – it’s all you have to do We need him crucified – it’s all you have […]
I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome I wanna run naked in a rainstorm Make love in a train cross-country You put this in me, so now what, so now what? Wanting, needing, waiting For you to justify my love Hoping, praying For you to justify my love I […]
Allelu, allelu: I have died happy And lived to tell the tale to you I have slept for forty years And woke to find me gone I woke safe and warm in your arms In your arms, your arms In your arms Not informed of the natural law Squatting, lordly, on a stool, in a […]
[Verse 1: Fat Joe] You should leave the house for a moment Lately I can’t help but to notice That he don’t acknowledge you Nah, he don’t be out with you I get it, I get it, where I’m from we on that bullshit Yeah you love that bullshit Real shit, I can’t even lie […]
Tu ne pourras rien me cacher Je n’ai pas besoin d’être médium Mais dis toujours la vérité Si Tu Es Un Homme Je ne pourrai pas te soigner Ne me prends pour un sérum Mais n’aie pas peur d’être blessé Si Tu Es Un Homme Si Tu Es Un Homme Tu prendras rien pour acquis […]
In the shadows of tall buildings Of fallen angels on the ceilings Oily feathers in bronze and concrete Faded colors, pieces left incomplete The line moves slowly past the electric fence Across the borders between the continents In the cathedrals of New York and Rome There is a feeling that you should just go home […]
‘Cause baby it’s time we let down on the ride Running from the city Running from its crimes Sleeping on the streets of Rome [?] to pass the time We could seal our faiths alone We could deal, oh, baby it’s time to lose our vicious pride ‘Cause we can’t run, there’s nowhere else to […]
The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gray The glory that was Rome is of another day I’ve been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I’m going home to my city by the Bay I left my heart in San Francisco High on a hill, it calls to me To be where little cable cars […]
Ice Age or a heat wave Earthquake or a plague Terrorism or class warfare Or the end of days I asked mama, but she didn’t know Dad just shook his head Put a couple ice cubes in his whiskey, sipped it, and went to bed Can I just pray to God to give me those […]
[Verse 1] 5 o’clock moving like a rattlesnake in Venice Shedding off my monkey suit well that’ll take a minute Hold the door for me brothers and sisters it’s time to jettison The world’s passing by I think it’s bout time that they let us in My medicine is like better gin Ice cold juiced […]
[Electronic music] ‘Cause baby it’s time we let down on the ride Running from the city Running from its crimes Sleeping on the streets of Rome [?] to pass the time We could seal our faiths alone We could deal, oh, baby it’s time to lose our vicious pride ‘Cause we can’t run, there’s nowhere […]
If God had a name what would it be? And would you call it to his face? If you were faced with Him in all His glory What would you ask if you had just one question? And yeah, yeah, God is great Yeah, yeah, God is good And yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah What if God […]
[Hook] I want (I want) a place in Rome I want (I want) my paper long I want (I want) my haters gone I want (I want) my bitch bad with no make-up on And I want my beat on slap Bending corners with my seat thrown back Every other fucking week blow stacks ‘Till […]
Come è bella c’è la luna brilla e strette Strette come è tutta bella a passeggiare Sotto il cielo di Roma Down each avenue or via, street or strada You can see ’em disappearing two by two On an evening in Roma Do they take ’em for espresso Yeah, I guess so On each lover’s […]