Campaigners say symbolism of Magyar inauguration must translate into real change for Roma rights after years of Orbán discriminationThe clutch of young Roma boys in black bow ties were lined up beneath the ornate arches and royal frescoes of Hungary’s dazzling parliament. Moments after Péter Magyar was sworn in, bringing an end to Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power, the young musicians launched into the unofficial anthem of Roma in Hungary, leaving many MPs wiping away tears.It was an extraordinar
Campaigners say symbolism of Magyar inauguration must translate into real change for Roma rights after years of Orbán discrimination
The clutch of young Roma boys in black bow ties were lined up beneath the ornate arches and royal frescoes of Hungary’s dazzling parliament. Moments after Péter Magyar was sworn in, bringing an end to Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power, the young musicians launched into the unofficial anthem of Roma in Hungary, leaving many MPs wiping away tears.
It was an extraordinary moment – one that fused the nationwide hope for change with the longstanding aspirations of the country’s most marginalised community. Roma rights campaigners have seized the moment, calling on the new government to ensure that the symbolism of last weekendtranslates into real change.
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Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 43 142.
Singer and actress Romina Power (1951) is the daughter of film stars Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. She was born in the US, but lived and worked most of her life in Italy. Besides being a film actress, she is best known for the successful singing duo she formed with her former husband, Albano Carrisi. They had several hits and performed twice at the European Song Contest.
Romina Francesca Pow
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 43 142.
Singer and actress Romina Power (1951) is the daughter of film stars Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. She was born in the US, but lived and worked most of her life in Italy. Besides being a film actress, she is best known for the successful singing duo she formed with her former husband, Albano Carrisi. They had several hits and performed twice at the European Song Contest.
Romina Francesca Power was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1951. She is the eldest daughter of American film star Tyrone Power and his second wife, film actress Linda Christian. After her parents divorced in 1956, her mother took Romina and her sister Taryn to live all around the world, but mainly in Mexico and Italy. Romina attended college in England and then returned to Italy. Her interest in music was evoked in her childhood by American musicals from the 1950’s, Mexican Mariachi bands and Italian music from the 1960’s. In her early teens, Power discovered The Beatles and Bob Dylan, which inspired her to compose music. After receiving a guitar as a birthday gift, she learned chords and wrote her first songs. At the age of 14, she made her film debut in the Dino De Laurentiis production Menage all’Italiana / Menage Italian Style (Franco Indovina, 1965) starring Ugo Tognazzi. In the next four years, she went on to make 14 films in Italy, including the comedy Come imparai ad amare le donne / Love Parade (Luciano Salce, 1966) with Michèle Mercier and Anita Ekberg, and the Marquis de Sade's adaptation Justine (Jesus Franco, 1969) with Klaus Kinski. David Ross Smith at IMDb quotes director Franco dissing Power: “She was a passenger, wandering around. She was like a piece of furniture. It was as if I was making Bambi 2.” She was quite good though, as the daughter of Dorothy Malone in the Giallo Femmine insaziabili / Beverly Hills (Alberto De Martino, 1969). After a few more films, she finished her film career. At the set of Nel sole / The World’s Gold (Aldo Grimaldi, 1967), Power had met singer and actor Albano Carrisi. In 1970, the pair married, and five years later they formed the singing duo Al Bano & Romina Power.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Al Bano & Romina Power became well known all over Europe and also in Latin America. Their songs include 'Felicità' (1982), 'Ci sarà' (1984), winning title at the Sanremo Festival, 'Sempre sempre' (1986) and 'Nostalgia canaglia' (1987). They achieved 7th place for Italy in both the 1976 and 1985 Eurovision Song Contest. The duo released multiple albums in different languages, and several became gold or platinum. The couple divorced in 1999. They have four children: Ylenia Maria (1970), who mysteriously went missing in New Orleans in 1994 and yet still has to be found; the only son Yari Marco (1973); Cristel Chiara (1985), who appeared in the Italian Reality TV show La Fattoria (The Farm); and Romina Iolanda (1987), who appeared with her father in the 2005 edition of Italian Reality TV show Isola dei Famosi (Survivor). Romina Power wrote five books in Italian. Between 2004 and 2006, she toured with the controversial stage play 'The Vagina Monologues' by Eve Ensler. She worked as a host for various variety shows on TV, acted in two mini-series, and in 2005, she was a judge in the TV show Ballando con le Stelle (Dancing with the Stars). Between 2006 and 2007, Power organised exhibitions of her paintings, mainly in Milan. At the same time, she dedicated herself to directing her short film Upaya (2006). In Spring 2007, she bought a house in Sedona, Arizona and moved to the United States. She had a small part in the comedy Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara, 2007) starring Willem Dafoe. A year later, Linda Christian was diagnosed with colon cancer. Power went to live in her mother's house in Palm Springs, where she remained until her mother died in 2011. Romina Power is a polyglot who speaks five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch.
Sources: Rominapower.it, Wikipedia (German and Italian) and IMDb.
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Vintage French collector's card. From our Album Pathé 1911. The names on the cards refer to the scriptwriters, not the directors (although they sometimes coincide). For L'envieuse (1911), the scriptwriter was Mévisto, but the director Albert Capellani. According to the Fondation Pathé, Capellani was co-writer of the script.
Plot: André de Baudy (Adolphe Candé), an engineer at an industrial firm, earns an annual salary of 20,000 francs. His earning
Vintage French collector's card. From our Album Pathé 1911. The names on the cards refer to the scriptwriters, not the directors (although they sometimes coincide). For L'envieuse (1911), the scriptwriter was Mévisto, but the director Albert Capellani. According to the Fondation Pathé, Capellani was co-writer of the script.
Plot: André de Baudy (Adolphe Candé), an engineer at an industrial firm, earns an annual salary of 20,000 francs. His earnings are not enough to cover the expenses of his wife, Hélène (Léontine Massart), who, tempted by the luxury enjoyed by her wealthier friends, resents the simplicity of her wardrobe—no jewelry, no furs, no lace. One day, haunted by the desire to own a pearl necklace, she enters a jewelry store and has the shopkeeper show her various sets. But their prices far exceed her expectations. Was she to give up the jewel that had promised her so much joy? In a moment of madness, she slips one of the precious necklaces into her pocket and rushes out. The theft is soon discovered and the thief arrested. Her husband, upon learning of it, refuses to forgive her, and the unfortunate woman must serve her sentence: six months in prison. During her absence, their daughter, little Yvonne (Hacquard), falls seriously ill. Deprived of her mother’s tenderness and care, the child wastes away. The doctor hesitates to give a prognosis when the mother, finally released, returns to beg for forgiveness. André allows her to come and care for her child, and after overcoming the illness through long and devoted care, the guilty woman finally obtains his forgiveness.
The other actors were Maurice Luguet, Dupont-Morgan, Camille Steyaert, and Andrée Marly.
Léontine Massart (1885-1980) was a French stage and screen actress of Belgian origin. She peaked in French silent film of the early 1910s.
Étienne Louis Charles Adolphe Candé, born 1 July 1858 in Paris and died 22 September 1931 in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis, then Seine), was a French actor (sometimes credited as Candé).
Truus, Bob & Jan too! posted a photo:
Vintage French collector's card. From our Album Pathé 1911. The names on the cards refer to the scriptwriters, not the directors (although they sometimes coincide). For L'envieuse (1911), the scriptwriter was Mévisto, but the director was Albert Capellani. According to the Fondation Pathé, Capellani was co-writer of the script.
Plot: André de Baudy (Adolphe Candé), an engineer at an industrial firm, earns an annual salary of 20,000 francs. His ear
Vintage French collector's card. From our Album Pathé 1911. The names on the cards refer to the scriptwriters, not the directors (although they sometimes coincide). For L'envieuse (1911), the scriptwriter was Mévisto, but the director was Albert Capellani. According to the Fondation Pathé, Capellani was co-writer of the script.
Plot: André de Baudy (Adolphe Candé), an engineer at an industrial firm, earns an annual salary of 20,000 francs. His earnings are not enough to cover the expenses of his wife, Hélène (Léontine Massart), who, tempted by the luxury enjoyed by her wealthier friends, resents the simplicity of her wardrobe—no jewellery, no furs, no lace. One day, haunted by the desire to own a pearl necklace, she enters a jewellery store and has the shopkeeper show her various sets. But their prices far exceed her expectations. Was she to give up the jewel that had promised her so much joy? In a moment of madness, she slips one of the precious necklaces into her pocket and rushes out. The theft is soon discovered and the thief arrested. Her husband, upon learning of it, refuses to forgive her, and the unfortunate woman must serve her sentence: six months in prison. During her absence, their daughter, little Yvonne (Hacquard), falls seriously ill. Deprived of her mother’s tenderness and care, the child wastes away. The doctor hesitates to give a prognosis when the mother, finally released, returns to beg for forgiveness. André allows her to come and care for her child, and after overcoming the illness through long and devoted care, the guilty woman finally obtains his forgiveness.
The other actors were Maurice Luguet, Dupont-Morgan, Camille Steyaert, and Andrée Marly.
Léontine Massart (1885-1980) was a French stage and screen actress of Belgian origin. She peaked in the French silent film of the early 1910s.
Étienne Louis Charles Adolphe Candé, born 1 July 1858 in Paris and died 22 September 1931 in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis, then Seine), was a French actor (sometimes credited as Candé).
People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders Thousands of people from across the country descended on Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on Saturday. They arrived by bus, by car and by plane to gather for the All Roads Lead to the South rally, following the supreme court’s Louisiana v Callais decision last month, which essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act and severely limited protections against voting discrimination.Organize
People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders
Thousands of people from across the country descended on Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on Saturday. They arrived by bus, by car and by plane to gather for the All Roads Lead to the South rally, following the supreme court’s Louisiana v Callais decision last month, which essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act and severely limited protections against voting discrimination.
Organized by a coalition of national and local civic engagement groups, the rally took place outside the Alabama state capitol building, in the same plaza where the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches – three nonviolent demonstrations in support of Black voting rights – are enshrined.
One of the highlights of TV in 2026 so far was The Pitt's second season finale, "9:00 P.M.," as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch's (Noah Wyle) final hour before his supposed sabbatical was packed with high drama and emotion. Through the tears, an eye-watering number of viewers tuned in to the finale, with it reported that 9.7 million viewers were recorded in the weekend following its premiere. As far as medical dramas go, The Pitt is now the gold standard, with its success sure to inspire many mo
One of the highlights of TV in 2026 so far was The Pitt's second season finale, "9:00 P.M.," as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch's (Noah Wyle) final hour before his supposed sabbatical was packed with high drama and emotion. Through the tears, an eye-watering number of viewers tuned in to the finale, with it reported that 9.7 million viewers were recorded in the weekend following its premiere. As far as medical dramas go, The Pitt is now the gold standard, with its success sure to inspire many more like it as other streamers attempt to catch up.
A great Western doesn’t need to reinvent the genre. Sometimes it just needs two cowboy fellas, one treacherous trip, and a battle of wits and mind games between the pair where the true prize is the meaning of honor. And all of that happens before anyone reaches for a gun. This Western is one of the best examples of a modern remake that honors the original, and has some A-list stars putting in some of their career-best work.
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