Federico Fellini Leopardi. Fellini improvised as he filmed, using as a guide a rough treatment written with Pinelli. Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors. Fellini won the "Praemium Imperiale", the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts, awarded by the Japan Art Association in 1990. In July 1991 and April 1992, Fellini worked in close collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew to establish "the longest and most detailed conversations ever recorded on film". Described as the "Maestro's spiritual testament” by his biographer Tullio
Frederico Barrigana after being in hospital for several days. Frederico Barrigana Frederico Barrigana (28 April 1922 in Alcochete, Portugal – 30 September 2007 in Águeda, Portugal) was a Portuguese football goalkeeper that became famous for playing for FC Porto, where he earned the nickname "Barrigana Mãos-de-ferro" (meaning iron hands). He was chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper "Record" as one of the best 100 Portuguese football players ever. In 1942, he went to Sporting Clube de Portugal. The main goalkeeper at the time, João Azevedo, said that Barrigana was ""the only one in which I see qualities to take me away from my