rickterenzi

About me Roman Catholic; Sagittarius

About my interests
- Cinema from 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
- Classic Pop (Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis); Musica Leggera (Mina, Ornella Vanoni); Opera (Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Giacomo Puccini; Maria Callas); Big Band Swing (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman); Cool Jazz (Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck Quartet); Lounge (Jackie Gleason, Ray Conniff, Ray Anthony, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Henry Mancini)
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis (29 BC - 19 BC); Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia (1304/1307-1321); Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (1349-1351/1353); Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe (1532); Gabriele D'Annunzio, Il piacere (1889)

"I am big! It's the pictures that got small." (Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, 1950)