![]() The schoolmate Stanley Tucci wore glasses, he was bit awkward and he only took interest in English classes during which he taught English to everybody else. I am nostalgic about those days, when I had hair- Stanley laughs- I think I have a photo of us playing soccer somewhere”. Every time, Stanley walked up to me and said: “Hey, my schoolmate. Over thirty years later, we met at a cinema festival and for a week we saw the same movies and attended the same dinner parties. I do remember him because I used to live in that neighbourhood and played soccer with that American boy wearing eye-glasses and tennis shoes. One was named Palagi, do you remember him?”. “I remember that there were some brave, strong boys, true leaders. But it was all an eleven-year old boy needed. Only the boys who used to play soccer there, grazing their knees and even fighting now and then, know the name of that small plot of land between the Mugnone river and Via dello Statuto. ![]() I remember when I went playing soccer in piazza.what is the name?.piazza Cosseria (now Piazza della Costituzione)”. “Of course I do- he says when we meet him with his girlfriend in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the year 1972 and Stanley attended a secondary school called “Gaetano Pieraccioni”. Stanley’s father, an art teacher, very keen on Michelangelo and Leonardo’s works, moved to Italy in the ‘70s, to Florence, to be precise. One of these was Stanley Tucci’s great-grandfather. Ellis Island Museum’s website lists 1,200 Tuccis who, in the early twentieth century, emigrated to America. As many American actors, Tucci is of Italian origins and is descended from Italian immigrants. What we are about to tell you is his “Florentine” story, a story very few know about. And after The Devil Wears Prada in which he plays the role of a fashion expert, he starred in another seven movies. Since his debut in Prizzi’s Honor directed by John Houston (1985), he has done 80 movies. ![]() Today he is one of America’s most popular actors. Stanley Tucci won everything for that work: Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, two Golden Globes. Preparing a “timballo” is a challenge with God. Like in that beautiful movie, Big Night, that tells the story of two brothers running a restaurant which is failing and whose battle for life, survival and dignity lasts the time of an extraordinary dinner: a show of pride rather than a dinner. But, most of all, his is a New Yorker’s face, a Little Italy face, smelling of poverty, Italian cooking and immigrants’ stories. FLORENCE STANLEY FULLHe has black eyes, the eyes of an emigrant, full of cleverness and hungry for life. FLORENCE STANLEY MOVIEHe has an ancient-looking face, an Italian face, Stanley Tucci, an actor from New York co-starring with Tom Hanks in the movie “The Terminal” by Spielberg. FLORENCE STANLEY SERIESThe Florentine youth of Stanley Tucci The famous New York actor talks about himself, ahead of his exclusive TV series dedicated to Florence and Italy ![]()
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