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Both are also the inspiration of the same person, Giancarlo del Monaco, one of the busiest directors around. Del Monaco, 51, is opera royalty: his father Mario was a thrilling heroic tenor of the 1950s. Giancarlo speaks--or more often shouts--five languages. He knows all the operas, even works such as Fedora and Francesca da Rimini, by heart because he spent his childhood in the wings. He also knows the stress points; when his father sang, his mother used to stand behind the boy with her hand on his shoulder; when the hard parts came, her grip tightened...
Both are also the inspiration of the same person, Giancarlo del Monaco, one of the busiest directors around. Del Monaco, 51, is opera royalty: his father Mario was a thrilling, heroic tenor of the 1950s. Giancarlo speaks-or more often shouts-five languages. He knows all the operas, even works like Fedora and Francesca da Rimini, by heart because he spent his childhood in the wings. He also knows the stress points; when his father sang, his mother used to stand behind the boy with her hand on his shoulder; when the hard parts came, her grip tightened...
...Giancarlo Truffa...
Certainly not the sensitive subject of black-and-white relations. Bakersfield P.D. focuses on Paul Gigante (Giancarlo Esposito), a black police detective newly transplanted from Washington. His race makes him a curiosity in Bakersfield's white-bread station house, and his new colleagues are naive enough to say what's on their mind. His TV-obsessed partner (Ron Eldard) admits to feeling "a little gypped" that the first black man he has worked with is so lacking in flash. In a sting operation to nab a call-girl ring, Gigante is picked to go undercover as a pimp. He bristles...
...wildly successful Roberts campaign encounters a few obstacles along the way, the most successful of whom is Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito), a reporter for Troubled Times. Raplin uncovers a scandal linking Roberts, drugs, Iran-Contra and the HUD fiasco. The effect is to give this campaign comedy the elements of a suspense thriller...