Cipriani S.A. is a privately owned international corporation based in Luxembourg that owns and operates luxury restaurants and clubs around the world including Harry's Bar in Venice and formerly the Rainbow Room in New York City.

It traces its history to family patriarch Giuseppe Cipriani (1900–1980) ^[1] who founded Harry's Bar in Venice in 1931. Harry's Bar was founded after Cipriani was working at the Hotel Europa in Venice and loaned a customer Harry Pickering 10,000 lire (about US$5,000) in 1929 at the beginning of the Crash of 1929. Pickering paid him back 50,000 lire which Cipriani used to start the bar. Harry's Bar became a popular spot for celebrities like Ernest Hemingway and Humphrey Bogart. The fizzy drink Bellini and the food dish Carpaccio were reputed to have originated there.

Giuseppe's son Arrigo Cipriani (born 1932) is the majority owner. Arrigo is Italian for Harry. ^[1] His son Giuseppe Cipriani (born 1965) is the main business manager.

History[link]

In 1958 the elder Cipriani built the Hotel Cipriani in Venice. In 1967 Cipriani Sr. sold rights to the Cipriani name trademark.^[2]

However the family went international in 1985 under the Cipriani name when it opened a Harry's Bar branch in New York City in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel.^[3] Within two years they were evicted from the hotel and opened the Cipriani Bellini bar nearby.^[1] Eventually they would return to the hotel.

110 East 42nd Street

In 1997 the Ciprianis bought 55 Wall Street, noted for its huge ornate former First National Bank lobby. They sold it in 1999 and bought the Bowery Savings Bank building across from Grand Central – again noted for its huge ornate lobby.^[4] 55 Wall Street Cipriani's, Grand Central Cipriani's, and Cipriani Tribeca, were designed by Anthony Morali of Morali Architects.^[5]

In 1999 they bought the Rainbow Room and extensively remodeled it and fired the members of Local 6 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union which picketed it.

In 2003 the company won a right from Hudson River Park board to develop Pier 57 into Leonardo's a luxury complex that included catering hall, shops, restaurants, a rooftop pool and a public park. Their principal competition was the Chelsea Piers which was just nort of Pier 57. After winning the bid Michael DiLeonardo, an associate of Peter Gotti, turned state's evidence against the accused mobster. In his testimony DiLeonardo said the Ciprianis had paid $120,000 to the Gambino crime family to make union problems at the Rainbow Room disappear. The charges were never confirmed. However the Ciprianis were successful in firing the union workers. In the wake of the battle the Ciprianis relinquished its rights to develop the pier.^[3]

In 2004 they opened Cipriani London.

In 2006 in partnership with attorney Steven C. Witkoff they bought 55 Wall Street again.^[4]

Arrigio and Giuseppe pled guilty in 2007 to misdemeanor tax evasion for defrauding $3.5 million in state and city taxes for six years beginning in 1998. They were placed on probation through 2011 and an independent auditor was assigned to monitor future payments.^[3]

In 2007 and 2008 it had a bitter dispute with the landlord L&L Holdings Company headed by David W. Levinson of the International Toy Center over its ballroom in the lobby of the landmark building in the Flatiron District at 200 Fifth Avenue and 23rd. The Ciprianis ultimately agreed to pay $12 million and vacate the building by the end of January 2009.^[6]

In December 2008 the High Court of England and Wales ruled that Orient-Express Hotels (which owns the Hotel Cipriani) owns the Cipriani trademark and that the use of "Cipriani" in the name of the London restaurant infringed its trademark rights.^[7][2] The decision was upheld on appeal by the Court of Appeal on 24 February 2010, which ordered that the restaurant's name would have to be changed by 24 April 2010.^[8] The new name of the restaurant is "C".^[9]

In January 2009 the Ciprianis announced plans to close the Rainbow Room in a dispute with 30 Rock owner Tishman Speyer Properties. Tishman in turn responded that it was evicting Ciprianis from the Rainbow Room.^[10]

Properties[link]

Venice

• Harry's Bar (Venice)^[11]
• Harry's Dolci (on Giudecca)^[12]

New York City

• Harry Cipriani Bar, 781 Fifth Avenue^[13]
• 55 Wall Street (the family owns the building which now consists of a club^[14], residence^[15] and restaurant^[16]).
• Cipriani 42nd Street (in the former Bowery Savings Bank at 110 East 42nd Street)^[17]
• Cipriano Dolci in Grand Central Terminal^[18]
• Rainbow Grill atop 30 Rockefeller Center (closed June 2009)
• Cipriani 23rd Street (in the International Toy Center) (closed January 2009)

London

• C London (in Mayfair)^[9]

Los Angeles

• Cipriani Beverly Hills (planned in 2010 in the former Tower Beverly Hills Hotel)^[19]

Porto Cervo

Cipriani Porto Cervo^[20]

Hong Kong

• Cipriani Hong Kong ^[21]

Miami Beach

• Cipriani Ocean Beach and Club Residences (at the Saxony Hotel)^[22]

Istanbul

• Cipriani Istanbul (at the Edition Hotel)

References[link]

External links[link]

• cipriani.com

Daniel Cipriani

Full name	Daniel Jerome Cipriani
Date of birth	(1987-11-02) 2 November 1987 (age 24)
Place of birth	Roehampton, London, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	14 st 2 lb (90 kg)
School	Tudhoe Donhead The Oratory School Whitgift School
Rugby union career
Current status
Position(s)	Fly-half / Fullback
current team	Melbourne Rebels
Playing career
Position	Fly-half, Fullback
Youth clubs
Rosslyn Park
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2004–2010 2011–2012 2012-	London Wasps Melbourne Rebels Sale Sharks	33 18	(214) (122)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2008–	England	7	(49)

Daniel Jerome Cipriani (born 2 November 1987) is an English rugby union footballer. He plays fly-half, centre and fullback. He has played for London Wasps and England. He's currently playing his second season of Super Rugby as a member of the inaugural Melbourne Rebels squad.^[1]

Biography[link]

Danny Cipriani is mixed-race, his father is from Trinidad & Tobago while his mother is English. Cipriani's father, Jay, and his mother, Anne, separated soon after his birth. Although Jay returned to Trinidad and Tobago, Cipriani was able to remain in contact with him.^[2] He lived with his mother in Putney. In order to send him to a private school, his mother learnt The Knowledge so that she could drive a London Taxi. She was able to afford to send him to the Wimbledon College prep school, Donhead.^[3]

Spotted as a rugby talent at Donhead, he was offered a scholarship and advised to move to the Junior House of The Oratory School near Reading to continue his development.^[2] He later moved to Whitgift School in Croydon after Common Entrance. A keen all-round sportsman, Cipriani played junior football for Queens Park Rangers and was offered youth terms by Reading. He also played schoolboy cricket for Berkshire and Oxfordshire. He was invited to join Surrey County Cricket Club as a batsman.^[2] He also played squash at county level.^[4] He first played club rugby at Rosslyn Park in Roehampton, where he developed his passion for the game.

Danny appears briefly in an episode in the first season of My Super Sweet 16 UK.

Club career[link]

He joined Wasps Academy in 2003^[5] and made his debut against Bristol Rugby aged 17 in December 2004 in the Powergen Cup. Cipriani joined the London Wasps Academy full time in the 2006/7 season. He initially played for London Wasps U21 team and London Wasps A team before making more regular appearances for the first team in 2007.

After Alex King left Wasps in the summer of 2007, the fly-half position at the club became vacant, and, after playing in a series of positions for Wasps in the early games of the 2007/08 season Cipriani played two games in a at fly-half, against Gloucester and Munster, London Wasps winning both.

He is quicker over 69 metres than Paul Sackey and this story was confirmed by their sprinting coach.^[6]

On 6 October 2008 Cipriani was involved in a bust-up with club and international team-mate Josh Lewsey in a training ground fight.^[7] Cipriani was left nursing a bloody nose and cut lip following the incident at Wasps’ training ground. The spat started after Lewsey accused Cipriani of missing several tackles during a full-contact session.^[8]

International career[link]

Cipriani captained England U16. He played fly-half for the England U19 side in the U19 World Cup but was unable to complete the tournament due to a head injury.^{[citation needed]}

Cipriani was part of the Saxons' side that won the Churchill Cup at Twickenham in 2007. He just missed out on selection for the 2007 Rugby World Cup for England, despite spending the summer in their training camp.^{[citation needed]} He was called up to the England squad for the 2008 Six Nations Championship. Many experts were calling for Cipriani to be picked at full-back to ease him into the international arena, a position he played successfully with the London Wasps upon breaking into the first team.^[9][10][11] His starting debut for England was due to be realised when he was picked at full-back for the game against Scotland on 8 March 2008.^[12] However, two days before Cipriani was to make his full England debut, he was axed from the squad due to "inappropriate behaviour". Cipriani was photographed leaving a London nightclub^[13] at 12.30am.^[14]

He started the match against Ireland on 15 March 2008, which England won 33–10, replacing Jonny Wilkinson at fly-half. He had a successful match, converting all of his goal kicks and controlling the game well.^[15] After the match, he gave an interview for the BBC, in which he accidentally swore.^[16]

Cipriani was named in the England Saxons squad on 1 July 2008.^{[citation needed]} On his return to England he scored 19 points including a try.^{[citation needed]}

Injury and return to Wasps for 2008–2009[link]

Cipriani playing for Wasps against Bristol in 2009

On 18 May 2008, Cipriani suffered a fracture dislocation of his right ankle during Wasps semi-final play-off victory over Bath."^[17] Cipriani was tackled by Olly Barkley and got trapped at the bottom of a ruck in the 49th minute at Adams Park.^[18] He was ruled out of England's tour of New Zealand due to his ankle fracture.^[19]

Cipriani made his return to London Wasps in a Premiership match against Bath on 1 October 2008.^[20] His recovery has been described as remarkable, given the severity of the injury, and because his return was six weeks to two months ahead of schedule.^[21] His sprint coach Margot Wells has been quoted as saying that due to Cipriani's superb attitude and hard work, he will return 'stronger in the tackle, fitter and faster than before'.^[22]

Following an injury to Jonny Wilkinson, Cipriani regained the England number 10 shirt for the 2008 Autumn Internationals. He was then dropped following two poor displays in defeat to South Africa and Australia. Much was also made of his high-profile relationship with model Kelly Brook and concerns were raised by critics about whether he was fully committed to rugby.^[23]

Cipriani enjoyed a good start to the 2009–2010 season with Wasps, only to injure himself in a match against Northampton Saints, a match in which he incidentally scored his first try of the season. This injury ruled him out of the Autumn Internationals for England. It would be two months before he made his comeback playing in a London Wasps A game against Harlequins, 7 December, playing for 40 minutes.^[24]

Cipriani played his last home match for London Wasps on 1 May 2010 against Cardiff Blues in the Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final.^{[citation needed]}

2010-11 Preparations for move to Australia[link]

In February 2010, the London Wasps announced Cipriani would join the Melbourne Rebels. Rebels' Coach Rod MacQueen said, "Danny Cipriani is ... coming for all the right reasons. [He] is on the right path to the culture we are after."^[1] In England, there was speculation about Cipriani's chances of English selection for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. While England's manager Martin Johnson said he would not select Cipriani if he moved to the southern hemisphere,^[25] former English international Austin Healey said he believed Cipriani could still feature for England at the tournament in New Zealand.^[26]

In August 2010 Neil Warnock, manager of the London based football club Queens Park Rangers, revealed Cipriani would train with the Rangers and might even play for the reserves in preparation for his move to Melbourne.^[27] Cipriani also trained with London football club Tottenham Hotspur. In September 2010, Cipriani went to Denver to train with the Colorado Rapids, which he said was for "altitude training".^[28] During September 2010 Cipriani trained with the Milton Keynes Dons and was reportedly offered the chance to sign with them if he did not enjoy his first season in Melbourne.^[29][30]

Despite issues with his Australian work visa, Cipriani joined Rebels for pre-season training in late 2010.^[29][31][32] He trained at fly-half, and in early 2011 was one of two captains to lead the Rebels in two friendly trials against the visiting Tongans.^[33][34][35]

2011 Super Rugby season with the Melbourne Rebels[link]

Cipriani is the first England international player to join an Australian Super Rugby team. As of 23 November 2011, he has played 12 matches for the Melbourne Rebels and scored 108 points.^[36] His ill-discipline off the field has cost him the chance to play more.

In the Rebels second ever game in the Super Rugby competition against the Brumbies, Cipriani scored the Rebels's first points from a penalty kick. He then went on to score another 17 points in the game and help the Rebels to their first ever win.^{[citation needed]}

Cipriani's off-field behaviour has caused him problems with the Rebels. After the first match of the season, a loss to the NSW Waratahs, he was accused of taking a bottle of vodka from behind a Melbourne bar. The club fined him his match payment.^[37] In May he and team-mate Richard Kingi were stood down for the game against the Queensland Reds, after failing to meet standards agreed by the Rebel players' group. He was then left out of the Rebels squad named to tour to South Africa for two matches.^[38]

Throughout the 2011 season, he was widely criticised^{[by whom?]} for his poor defence.^[39]

2012 return to England[link]

Danny Cipriani has signed a new 3 year contract with Sale Sharks starting next season.^[40]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Melbourne Rebels Player Profile
• Official website & profile
• Wasps profile
• England new boys – Danny Cipriani

Stelvio Cipriani (born 20 August 1937 in Rome), is an Italian composer, notably for motion picture soundtracks.

Though not coming from a musical background, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church's organ. His priest gave him his first music lessons and encouraged Cipriani and his family. Cipriani passed his examinations and studied at Santa Cecilia Conservatory from the age of 14, then played on cruise ship bands, ^[1] that enabled him to meet Dave Brubeck. Upon return to Italy he accompanied Rita Pavone on piano.^[2]

His first soundtrack was the spaghetti western El Precio de un Hombre/The Bounty Killer (1966) followed by a well known score for Un Uomo, uno caballo, una pistola/The Stranger Returns/Shoot First Laugh Last (1967) starring Tony Anthony; Cipriani later composed other spaghetti western scores with Anthony.

Cipriani became prolific in the Italian film world and was awarded a Nastro d'Argento Best Score for The Anonymous Venetian (film) (1970).

In a 2007 interview, Cipriani said that he had composed music for Pope John Paul II and was currently working with Pope Benedict XVI.^[1]

One of Cipriani's most famous scores is from "La Polizia Sta a Guardare". The main theme was recycled by Cipriani for the score for Tentacoli and was brought to the public's attention again in 2007 when it was featured in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

Cipriani's scores for the films of the "La Polizia..." series were different arrangements over the same theme. Some of those themes were used in the soundtrack of the couple Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's first feature Amer.

Selective Filmography[link]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Movie Music Italiano | The Home Of Italian Movie Music
2. ^ Stelvio Cipriani - Biography

External links[link]

• Stelvio Cipriani at the Internet Movie Database

Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 25 April 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.

Biography[link]

Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. The son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who became a pioneer of special effects photography and subsequently one of the great cameramen of Italian silent pictures, Mario Bava's first ambition was to become a painter. Unable to turn out paintings at a profitable rate, he went into his father's business, working as an assistant to other Italian cinematographers like Massimo Terzano, while also offering assistance to his father who headed the special effects department at Benito Mussolini's film factory, the Istituto LUCE.

Bava became a cinematographer in his own right in 1939, shooting two short films with Roberto Rossellini. He made his feature debut in the early 1940s. Bava's camerawork was an instrumental factor in developing the screen personas of such stars of the period as Gina Lollobrigida, Steve Reeves and Aldo Fabrizi.

Bava completed filming I Vampiri (aka The Devil's Commandment) for director Riccardo Freda in 1956, now referred to as the first Italian horror film. Bava was originally hired as the cinematographer, but when Freda walked out on the project midway through production, Bava completed the film in several days, even creating the innovative special effects that were needed. He also handled the cinematography and special effects on the 1958 Steve Reeves classic Hercules, a film credited with sparking the Italian peplum genre.

Bava co-directed Le morte viene dallo spazio (The Day the Sky Exploded) in 1958, the first Italian science fiction film. Because he had no earlier credited experience as a director, it was credited solely to Paolo Heusch. In 1959, Bava completed Caltiki, The Immortal Monster, again for Riccardo Freda, and also worked on the lighting/ special fx for Hercules Unchained. In 1960, he directed Black Sunday, which made a horror genre star out of Barbara Steele. His use of light and dark in black and white films is widely acclaimed along with his use of color in films such as I tre volti della paura (Black Sabbath) (1963) and La Frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body) (1963).

His work has proved very influential: Bava directed what is called the first Italian giallo film, La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963), and his 1965 sci-fi horror Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires) was a probable influence on Alien (1979). Although comic books had served as the basis for countless serials and children's films in Hollywood, Bava's Diabolik (1968) brought an adult perspective to the genre. 1971's Reazione a catena/ Bay of Blood (also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve) is considered to be one of the earliest slasher films, and was imitated in the first two American-made Friday the 13th movies. Many elements of his 1966 film Operazione paura (Kill, Baby... Kill!), regarded by Martin Scorsese as Bava's masterpiece, also appear in the Asian strain of terror film known as J-Horror.

Mario Bava was very disappointed with the distribution of some of his later films (which caused him to retire in 1978 at age 63). Lisa and the Devil (1972) was never picked up by a distrbutor, and had to be later re-edited (with new 1975 footage) into an Exorcist-clone retitled House of Exorcism in order to get released. Bava's Semaforro Rosso (1974) was never released theatrically during his lifetime; the film only appeared on DVD in the late 1990s, re-edited a bit with some new footage, as Rabid Dogs and then released again in 2007 in a slightly altered version under the title Kidnapped. Bava retired in 1978 after co-directing his last horror film Shock with his son Lamberto (although he did some special effects matte work on Dario Argento's movie Inferno). Bava died of natural causes in 1980 at age 65.

Mario Bava's son, Lamberto Bava, worked for 14 years as Bava's assistant director, and went on to become a horror film director on his own. On several of his movies, Bava was credited as John M. Old.^[1] Later, Lamberto Bava was sometimes credited as John M. Old, Jr.^[2]

Several books have been published about Mario Bava: Mario Bava by Pascal Martinet (Edilig, 1984) and Mario Bava edited by Jean-Louis Leutrat (Éditions du Céfal, 1994) in French; Mario Bava by Alberto Pezzotta (Il Castoro Cinema, 1995) in Italian; The Haunted Worlds of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth (Fab Press, 2002), and most recently, the massive critical biography Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark^[3] by Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog, 2007; ISBN 0-9633756-1-X).

Filmography[link]

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Mario Bava Maestro of Macabre (2001), directed by Garry S.Grant
• Mario Bava Operazione paura (2004), directed by Gabriele Acerbo & Roberto Pisoni
• Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark (2007) by Tim Lucas
• Kill, Baby, Kill! Il cinema di Mario Bava (2007) by Gabriele Acerbo & Roberto Pisoni
• Le ombre della paura - Il cinema italiano del terrore 1960/1980 (2002) by Paolo Fazzini & Marco Cruciani

External links[link]

• Mario Bava at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography of Bava
• Images - Mario Bava, short biography
• Senses of Cinema - about his films
• Yellow, a short film dedicated to Mario Bava

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