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Laura

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Kahlil Gibran.

About Me

Hi my name is Laura, I'm Italian, was born in a wonderful island called Sardinia, lived some years in Rome, and now I'm living and working in London, where I teach Italian to children and adults. Enjoy teaching very much: it's very fullfilling : )I've also written for some local newspapers in Italy for a while...But creative writing is what I enjoy most. I Love my best friend Deborah,..love my mom, brothers and sister, writing and reading, create websites, walk in London, and enjoy to meet new people, to see the smile in a child's eyes, to laugh with friends, to get moved for a good theatre play or for a good song, love animals and respect nature, love all Italian food, especially Sicilian cakes ;) I enjoy to manage the website and the webcommunity I've created about David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas, and just started a web site about Jerry Lewis , and to meet new friends thanks to them. Am mushy, goofy and emotional, romantic, and still a dreamer... :) *___* .. I like company and for me friendship is the most important thing :), but sometimes I feel awkward with others and just want to hide in my little corner...And even if I'm not really a writer, writing usually makes me feel better.
I dream of a world without war and without prejudices.

My Interests

Writing,, ,Reading, Poetry, Literature, Teaching, Create Websites, Journalism (when it's really useful information at service of community, not when it's just rubbish to sell copies or to captivate audience), and above all Learning, Learn something different everyday,hoping to be a better person,Good Friends, Animals and Nature, Different Cultures, I enjoy the life of big cities, to be with people, the sunshine, waking up and find out that the city is covered with snow, but I like warm temperatures (you see...I'm all contradictions! lol!), squares and open spaces, even if sometimes I'd like to hide,I like privacy,and people who are tolerant, creative and openminded, I love to hug someone I love, I like all kind of arts,Cinema, Music, Theatre, Dance, Poetry, even Paintings, even if I don't know so much about them, when they can move me, or make me laugh, or smile, or inspire me:)
I like to manage the web community and websites I created about my fav artists: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, Jerry Lewis: Bay City's Friends (co-admin: My Debby:)); Paul & David Forever ; Jerry Lewis


ok, ok...Let's add some about sport.. I've never been good in practicing sport...so awkward I am...Just practiced some skiing on the Alpes and some mountain bike... (I know...very usual for someone born near the sea lol) but I am NOT the sporty type! those I like to watch, by the way, are cycling, ski, and...I like to see football, but not too much... I've been so lucky to see for real some of the best bikers of all times: from Bugno to Pantani, from Cipollini to Tonkov. My sport's hero is Mario Cipollini , King Lion, Il Re Leone, The Best! My fav football teams: Inter ( a passion born when I was a child, at the time of Zenga and Nicola Berti...) and Arsenal. :) ...And of course I cried and I screamed of joy when Italy won the World Cup! and I liked to see fratelli Abbagnale and Yuri Chechi and Deborah Compagnoni... :)

I'd like to meet:

All the persons who have something good in their hearts.

I was so lucky that I met: My best friend Deborah, the one who can stand me! David Soul: a real gentleman, a great artist and a wonderful man! Antonio Fargas: such a cool, sweet guy!

Music:

-David Soul: His wonderful unique voice moves me and makes me dream like anyone else!

-Elton John -Gianna Nannini

-The Aerosmith
-Depeche Mode
-Freddy Mercury
-Pink
-Charles Aznavour
-Celine Dion
-Gloria Gaynor
-Simon and Garfunkel
-James Taylor
-Sky
-Some Renato Zero's and Mia Martini
- Pino Daniele
-Dean Martin
-Frank Sinatra
And all the swing, jazz, croonies at their best :)
Like also a bit of Alanis Morrisette, Elisa, Stevie Wonder, The Genesis,Ray Charles,U2, Fabio Concato, Toto, Piero Pelu' and many others...(when I was a teen I liked also some of MrLorenzoJovanotti and I appreciate him even now when he has really something to deliver..and I liked Mr Jacko, he danced like anyone else...And I like also some of Cranberries and R.E.M...ah..and also some Michael Buble, Lighthouse Family,Desree,Tina Turner...ok ok..the list could continue...LOL!

Movies:

"The Color Purple"
, "The Nutty Professor" and All the other Jerry Lewis movies, David Soul's "Rage" and "Through naked Eyes", "Fiddler On The Roof" with Paul Michael Glaser, "The Hours", "Born the 4th July", "Back to The Future", "Lost In Translation", "Superman I,II,III", "Nightmare before Christmas", "Brokeback Mountain", "Sabrina" (the Original one!) all Alberto Sordi's and Toto' 's movies,all Fellini (and Giulietta Masina of course)'s movies, all Hitchcock's, movies with Robert Downey Jr, All Rock Hudson and all the good musicals and old Disney's movies,Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Rowan Atkinson, movies with Meryl Streep, above all "Falling in love", "Heartburn", "Sophie's Choice" and "Kramer vs Kramer", "The Blues Brothers", "Maurice", "Forrest Gump" -- I love also Michael J Fox and John Ritter.
I like also to watch "Whore" with Antonio Fargas who performs a great interpretation!, "High Society" (with all the best!), again and again! think also that Tom Cruise was very good in movies like "The Firm" and "A few good men", and "Collateral", love also "Hollywood Party", "The Pink Panther" and all the movies with Peter Sellers !, Massimo Troisi, "Le fate ignoranti" by Ozpetek, and "Sogni" by Kurosawa, my fav actress is Sophia Loren(no one like her!), I admire , and I love movies by Vittorio De Sica and some of Antonioni,like "La Notte" and "Professione: Reporter...And I like also movies directed by Ron Howard (like "A beautiful Mind")

Television:

"Starsky & Hutch"

, "Will & Grace", "Happy Days", "Columbo", "Ally Mc Beal", "Star Trek The Original Series" (William Shatner rulez!), "Bill Cosby", "The Jeffersons", "Three's Company", "Brothers", "Friends", "Frasier", "Ellen" (by Ellen Degeneres):), "Mr Bean", some old japanese cartoons, and many other tv series, situation comedies, documentaries and news...

Books:

"Mrs Dalloway" and "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf, Dostoevskij's "Crime and Punishment" and "White nights", "L'etranger" de Albert Camus, "Le petit Prince" de Saint Exupery, "Se questo e' un uomo" di Primo Levi, "Uno, nessuno e centomila" di Pirandello, "Marcovaldo" di Italo Calvino, " all Agatha Christie, all the Poems by Jacques Prevert, Salvatore Quasimodo and Baudelaire, Kahlil Gibran, Jules Verne, All Charles Dickens!, Michael Cunningham's "The Hours", Ken Bruen, Banana Yoshimoto, some Henry James and Thomas Mann, "Novecento" di Alessandro Baricco, "The well of loneliness" by Radcliffe Hall, some short stories by Antonio Tabucchi and others.
"Dean and Me (A love story)" by Jerry Lewis (You have to read it!)

Heroes:

-Rigoberta Menchu Tum
- Christopher Reeve
-Mino Damato (For his extraordinary work for children affected by HIV in Romania)
-Jake Glaser
-Jerry Lewis
-Michael J Fox


Dean & Jerry-Paul & David: because Real Friendship is Forever:

My Blog

PURITAN!

To everyone of you guys who lives in London: Go to see the new movie "Puritan" at Apollo West End, Odeon Holloway Rd, or Genesis Mile End Rd: it's really worth watching it!  ...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:14:00 PST

Hi everybody!

Hi all!! It's meeee! Yes, perhaps I finally managed to understand something about this my space stuff... lol
Posted by Laura on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:11:00 PST