33-673: The Premi Flaiano (English: Flaiano Prizes ) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theatre and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano (1910–1972), the prizes have been awarded annually since 1974 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele D'Annunzio in Pescara , Flaiano's hometown in Abruzzo, as well as D'Annunzio's. Since 2001
66-630: A clinic for a check-up, he suffered a second cardiac arrest and died. His daughter Lelè, after a long illness, died at age 40 in 1992. His wife Rosetta Rota, a mathematician and the aunt of mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota , died in 2003. The entire family is buried together at the Maccarese Cemetery, near Rome. Flaiano's name is indissolubly tied to Rome, a city he loved and hated, as he was a caustic witness to its urban evolutions and debacles, its vices and its virtues. In La Solitudine del Satiro , Flaiano left numerous passages relating to his Rome. In
99-552: A majority (75%) stake in Newsday back to Cablevision's former owner Charles Dolan and his son Patrick, making Patrick the CEO of Newsday . Altice disposed of its remaining stake in Newsday at the end of July 2018, which, combined with Charles Dolan's transfer of shares to son Patrick, made Patrick the sole owner of Newsday . In July 2020, Newsday received $ 10 million in federal government loans from Paycheck Protection Program during
132-514: A nationally syndicated feature of Newsday . In the 1980s, a new design director, Robert Eisner, guided the transition into digital design and color printing. Newsday created and sponsored a "Long Island at the Crossroads" advisory board in 1978, to recommend regional goals, supervise local government, and liaison with state and Federal officials. It lasted approximately a decade. On March 21, 2011, Newsday redesigned its front page, scrapping
165-420: A regular foreign affairs analysis column for Newsday . Writer and biographer Robert Caro was an investigative reporter. Its features section has included television reporters Verne Gay and Diane Werts, TV/film feature writer Frank Lovece , and film critic Rafer Guzman. Newsday carries the syndicated columnist Froma Harrop . Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman 's editorial political cartoons animation are
198-606: A separate Queens edition, followed by a New York City edition dubbed New York Newsday . In June 2000, Times Mirror merged with the Tribune Company , partnering Newsday with the New York City television station WPIX , also owned by Tribune. With the Times Mirror-Tribune merger, the newspaper founded by Alicia Patterson was now owned by the company that was founded by her great-grandfather, Joseph Medill , who owned
231-455: Is enriched by several smaller festivals each year and is divided into several sections for which prizes are awarded. These include best film, best foreign film, male and female actors, director, photographer, editing, soundtrack, set design and costumes. A special jury prize is awarded, the best film of onset and also the premium carriera. The highest award given is the Flaiano gold for the film which
264-669: Is not known for being sensationalistic, as are other local daily tabloids, such as the New York Daily News and the New York Post . This causes Newsday to sometimes be referred to as "the respectable tabloid". In 2004, the alternative weekly newspaper Long Island Press (which is not related to the defunct daily of the same name) wrote that Newsday has used its clout to influence local politics in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Bill Moyers briefly served as publisher. During
297-437: Is reserved for writers for film, directors, performers Italian and foreign critics. Ennio Flaiano Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini , Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963). Flaiano
330-469: Is still here, forgotten by history, to write about the things that the others wrote about far better than I – namely, let me repeat, Catullus , Martial , Juvenal . (p. 251) In 1975, the Flaiano Prize was created in his honour. Recognizing achievement in cinema, theatre, creative writing, and literary criticism, the international prize is awarded annually in Flaiano's hometown of Pescara . Flaiano
363-521: The Chicago Tribune and, until 1991, also owned her father's Daily News . Tribune sold the Daily News to British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell . Following Maxwell's death in 1992, the family publishing empire collapsed, and Mortimer Zuckerman purchased the Daily News . In April 2008, News Corporation , headed by CEO Rupert Murdoch , attempted to purchase Newsday for US$ 580 million. This
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#1732876824799396-463: The COVID-19 pandemic to pay salaries for 500 employees. In 2022, Don Hudson was named editor. In March 2023, Newsday launched NewsdayTV, featuring former News 12 Networks anchor Elisa DiStefano. NewsdayTV is available online and through major streaming outlets. NewsdayTV takes a similar approach to news as other Long Island news outlets such as News12. Despite having a tabloid format, Newsday
429-625: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who rapes and subsequently kills an Eritrean woman and is then tormented by the memory of his act. The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness and meaninglessness. This is one of a growing number of Italian literary works facing up to the misdeeds of Italian colonialism in Eastern Africa . The novel has been continuously in print for sixty years. A movie adaptation with
462-548: The nameplate and font used since the 1960s in favor of a sans-serif wordmark. In 2004, a circulation scandal revealed that the paper's daily and Sunday circulation had been inflated by 16.9% and 14.5%, respectively, in the auditing period September 30, 2002 to September 30, 2003. The Audit Bureau of Circulation adjusted average weekday circulation to 481,816 from 579,599; average Saturday circulation to 392,649 from 416,830; and average Sunday circulation to 574,081 from 671,820, and instituted twice-yearly audits. In 2008, Newsday
495-602: The Montesacro quarter of Rome, the LABit theatre company placed a commemorative plaque on the facade of the house where he lived from 1952. Critic Richard Eder wrote in Newsday : "To read the late Ennio Flaiano is to imagine a bust of Ovid or Martial , placed in a piazza in Rome and smiling above a traffic jam. In his antic, melancholy irony, Flaiano wrote as if he were time itself, satirizing
528-554: The New York City market. As of 2023, Newsday is the eighth-largest circulation newspaper in the United States with a print circulation of 86,850. Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim , the first edition of Newsday was September 3, 1940, published from Hempstead . Until undergoing a major redesign in the 1970s, Newsday copied the Daily News format of short stories and numerous pictures. Patterson
561-732: The Spirits (1965). Newsday Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island , although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area . The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters are located in Melville, New York . Since its founding in 1940, Newsday has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes . Historically, it penetrated
594-455: The attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $ 10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later. Guggenheim, who died a year later, had Moyers removed from his will. After the competing Long Island Press (not to be confused with the alternative weekly of the same name) ceased publication in 1977, Newsday launched
627-452: The cinema section has become a true film festival , consisting of several events and film selections presented in cinemas around the town and open to the general public. The Flaiano Film Festival is one of Italy 's International Film Festivals. The Festival lasts one month (between June and July of each year), with the presentation of films in competition and out of competition, allowing the participation of thousands of spectators. The festival
660-436: The last section of his book, The Via Veneto Papers , journalist Giulio Villa Santa included an interview with Flaiano for Swiss-Italian Radio, two weeks before his death. The interview concluded as follows: Villa Santa : This evening it seems to me, Flaiano, that you have opened yourself up as perhaps you have never done before, that you have revealed an anguish and above all a faith behind your humour. But this gives rise to
693-476: The present moment." A fine and ironic moralist, at once tragic and bitter, Flaiano produced narrative works and other prose writings permeated by an original satiric vein and by a vivid sense of the grotesque through which he stigmatised the paradoxical aspects of contemporary reality. He introduced the expression saltare sul carro del vincitore ("to jump on the winner's chariot") into the Italian language . In
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#1732876824799726-406: The rescue of the winners", and "Italy is the country where the shortest line between two points is an arabesque." Perhaps his most well-known quotation is often misattributed to both Winston Churchill and Flaiano himself. Flaiano wrote: "In Italy, fascists divide themselves into two categories: fascists and antifascists ." The real author of this quotation was Mino Maccari , and Flaiano himself
759-445: The same title, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starring Nicolas Cage , was released in 1989. In 1971, Flaiano suffered a first heart attack, and wrote in his notes: "All will have to change." He put his many papers in order and published them, although the major part of his memoirs were published posthumously. In November 1972, he began writing various autobiographical pieces for Corriere della Sera . On 20 November 1972, while at
792-504: The suspicion in me that at bottom you are a man from another period if not from another age altogether; is that an unfounded suspicion? Flaiano : It's a legitimate one. We don’t know who we are, we are just so many passengers without baggage, we are born alone and we die alone. A writer once quoted me in a book of hers, and in the English translation the English writer translated my name as Ennius Flaianus , thinking that this Ennio Flaiano
825-619: The tenure of publisher Robert M. Johnson in the 1980s, Newsday made a major push into New York City. The paper's roster of columnists and critics has included Cathy Young , Jimmy Breslin , Barbara Garson , Normand Poirier , Murray Kempton , Gail Collins , Pete Hamill , Sydney Schanberg , Robert Reno (died 2012), Jim Dwyer , sportswriter Mike Lupica , music critic Tim Page , and television critic Marvin Kitman . The paper featured both advice columnists Ann Landers and Dear Abby for several years. From 1985 to 2005, Michael Mandelbaum wrote
858-515: Was born in Pescara . He wrote for Cineillustrato , Oggi , Il Mondo , Il Corriere della Sera , Omnibus , and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines. In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, Tempo di uccidere (variously translated as Miriam , A Time to Kill , and The Short Cut ). Set in the Italian Eritrea during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that started
891-431: Was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing what he called the "left-wing" coverage of the anti- Vietnam War protests. The two ultimately split over the 1968 presidential election , with Guggenheim authoring an editorial supporting Richard Nixon when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey . In 1970, Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over
924-404: Was fired as a writer at her father's Daily News in her early 20s, after getting the basic facts of a divorce wrong in a published report. She later went on the publish and edit Newsday . Following Patterson's death in 1963, Guggenheim became publisher and editor. In 1967, Guggenheim turned over the publisher position to Bill Moyers and continued as president and editor-in-chief. But Guggenheim
957-449: Was followed by a matching bid from Zuckerman and a $ 680 million bid from Cablevision . In May 2008, News Corporation withdrew its bid, and on May 12, 2008, Newsday reported that Cablevision would purchase the paper for $ 650 million. The sale was completed July 29, 2008. In 2016, Altice , a Netherlands -based multinational telecommunications company, acquired Cablevision, including Newsday and News 12. However, Altice then sold
990-777: Was in fact attributing it to him. Flaiano was a successful screenwriter and collaborated on several notable films, including Rome, Open City (1946), Guardie e ladri (1951), The Woman of Rome (1954), Peccato che sia una canaglia (1955), La notte (1961), Fantasmi a Roma (1961), La decima vittima (1965), La cagna (1972). With Tullio Pinelli , he co-wrote the screenplays for ten films by Federico Fellini : Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I vitelloni (1953), La strada (1954), Il bidone (1955), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio episode in Boccaccio '70 (1962), 8½ (1963), and Juliet of
1023-423: Was known for his quotations, including " Chastity is the mirage of obscene people", "I got so upset I couldn't sleep the whole afternoon", "If the peoples knew each other better, they would hate each other more", "In thirty years time Italy won't be like its governments intended, but as its TV dictated", "Remorse used to come afterwards in my love stories; now it goes before me", "Italians are always ready to run to
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1056-416: Was ranked 10th in terms of newspaper circulation in the United States. On October 28, 2009, Newsday changed its web site to a paid-subscriber only model . Newsday.com would open its front page, classified ads, movie listings, and school closings to all site visitors, but access beyond this content would require a weekly fee – US$ 5 as of 2010. This fee would be waived for subscribers of the print edition of
1089-543: Was some Latin author. A few months later we met each other in a restaurant in Rome and were introduced and, naturally, she experienced an awkward moment, for she didn’t think that this ancient writer was still alive. However, we did agree that certain characteristics of my person, a certain style of life, indicated that she was right. I perhaps was not of this age, am not of this age. Perhaps I belong to another world: I feel myself more in harmony when I read Juvenal , Martial , Catullus . It's probable that I’m an ancient Roman who
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