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Friday 4 November 2022
Embattled actor Spacey to receive achievement award in Italy

ROME (AP) — Two weeks that he groped a man at a
after a New York jury sided bar allegations that were
with Kevin Spacey in a sex- later dropped by prosecu-
ual abuse lawsuit, an Italian tors. Three months ago, he
film museum announced pleaded not guilty in Lon-
Thursday that the actor don to charges he sexually
would receive a lifetime assaulted three men be-
achievement award and tween 2004 and 2015 when
teach a master class there he was the artistic director
early next year. at the Old Vic theater in
Enzo Ghigo, president of London.
the National Museum of A judge in Los Angeles this
Cinema in the northern city summer approved an ar-
of Turin, said the class and bitrator's decision to order
the award honoring Spac- Spacey to pay $30.9 million
ey's contribution to the to the makers of "House of
growth of cinema would Cards" for violating his con-
take place on Jan. 16, tract by sexually harassing
2023. The event also is set crew members.
to include a screening of a Spacey filmed his most re-
Spacey film, though Ghigo cent movie, director Fran-
didn't say which. co Nero's "The Man Who
"We are honored that such Drew God," in Turin.
a prestigious guest as Kevin American actor Kevin Spacey, center, leaves the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Court House on Oct. "Now, among all of the cit-
Spacey chose Turin and our 20, 2022, in New York. A film museum in Italy's city of Turin said Thursday, Nov. 3 that Spacey ies of the world, he chose
will receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there early next year.
museum for this long-await- Turin for a master class. He
ed return to an event with found that Spacey, 63, did now 50, hadn't proven his flix series "House of Cards" couldn't give us a better
an audience," he said. not sexually abuse Anthony allegations. and saw other opportuni- present than this," Domeni-
Previous winners of the Rapp when both were rela- Rapp's #MeToo-era allega- ties dry up. co De Gaetano, the direc-
Stella della Mole Award in- tively unknown Broadway tions, and those of others, Rapp is a regular on TV's tor of the National Museum
clude actors Isabella Ros- actors in 1986 and Rapp derailed Spacey's soaring "Star Trek: Discovery" and of Cinema, was quoted as
sellini and Monica Bellucci, was 14 years old. career. was part of the original saying in the news release.
and director Dario Argento. The jurors deliberated a The two-time Academy Broadway cast of "Rent." Gaeteno plans to interview
On Oct. 21, a federal jury little more than an hour be- Award winning actor lost Spacey previously faced Spacey about his career at
in a New York civil case fore deciding that Rapp, his starring role on the Net- charges in Massachusetts the January event.q

Review: 'Salvatore' fetes a life devoted to feet and fashion

of Dreams" that in his entire a slew of top cultural com- commentators here in Cal-
career, "I have found there mentators and also some ifornia, "anything goes. You
are no bad feet. There are wonderful old Hollywood could make yourself over
bad shoes." footage, you can almost three or four times."
Now, whether you can af- feel Guadagnino efforting Watching early Westerns,
ford a pair of Ferragamos to get it all in. Ferragamo knows he could
to let your feet live their best Then again, he knows some make better cowboy boots
lives is another question. of us could watch films and he does.
But it's fascinating to learn about Hollywood, about Then he graduates to all
how obsessively Ferraga- fashion, and especially sorts of movie shoes, includ-
mo, born into a poor Italian about great shoes all day ing 12,000 sandals for Cecil
farming family at the turn long. B. DeMille's 1923 silent epic
of the 20th century, studied We begin, though, with Fer- "The Ten Commandments."
the human foot in his quest ragamo's youth as the 11th His name grows and his fans
to create the perfect shoe, of 14 children, in Bonito, a include the biggest stars of
combining creativity with, village near Naples. Push- the day Swanson, Mary
crucially, comfort. ing back against his father's Pickford, Lillian Gish, Doug-
"I love feet," he wrote. "They views that shoemaking is a las Fairbanks (and in later
talk to me." He even stud- lowly career, he proves his years, everyone from Greta
ied anatomy as a night worth by producing over- Garbo to Audrey Hepburn
student at the University of night a pair of spiffy shoes to Marilyn Monroe.)
Southern California, pep- for his sister's confirmation. He relocates to Hollywood,
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Italian pering the professor with He apprentices with a cob- where he lives near Char-
designer Salvatore Ferragamo with some of his shoe shapes. questions about the skel- bler at age nine, is mak- lie Chaplin and Valentino
Ferragamo is the subject of the documentary "Salvatore: eton but only the feet. ing shoes by 11, and at 16 stops by to chat in Ital-
Shoemaker of Dreams”
Working with the Ferraga- boards a ship to America. ian. He establishes his own
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP shoes. mo family, the director After a quick stop in Boston store, a magnet for stars.
National Writer And that comes from the had an astonishing wealth he hops a train and heads Then in 1927 Ferragamo re-
Next time you arrive home master, the late Salvatore of material to choose west to Santa Barbara, Cal- turns to Italy, choosing Flor-
with aching, blistered feet Ferragamo, who pronounc- from: Between the family ifornia, where a fledgling ence as a base for his plan
after a long day, take es in director Luca Gua- foundation and museum movie industry is emerging. to use Italian artisanal labor
heart: It's not your feet that dagnino's loving documen- archives, numerous fam- As director Martin Scors- to make shoes destined for
are the problem. It's your tary "Salvatore: Shoemaker ily members to interview, ese says the best of many clients in America. q