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Pavarotti's wild life of sex and excess

When opera legend Luciano Pavarotti was on his deathbed, he was visited by his ex-wife who he had left for a woman 34 years her junior. But instead of bitterness, the charming star told ex Adua Veroni she was beautiful and persuaded her to rustle him up his favourite meal of spaghetti bolognese, The Sun reports. Adua was not the only woman Pavarotti put a spell on, as a new documentary from Oscar-winning moviemaker Ron Howard reveals.

media_cameraThe Pavarotti the public knew best. Picture: QCUA Archives/That's Entertainment! According to his former manager, Herbert Breslin, the singer loved music, women, food and football in that order. The documentary, simply titled Pavarotti and due for release in Australia later this year, details the tenors attitude to sex, with footage of him telling reporters of the virtues of Viagra: Sex is always good for you if your little friend asks for it. It doesnt matter if it is before or after the show. The best thing would be during the show, on the only table on the stage. It also shows how the 150kg singer demanded mounds of pasta, Parmesan cheese and salami when he toured. His idea of dieting was to eat a meal of chicken, beans and mashed potatoes followed by three scoops of ice cream leaving a fourth scoop in the bowl. HE WAS VERY DEMANDING

media_cameraThe opera singer had a legendary talent and appetite. Picture: Angelo Soulas. Pavarotti became the worlds most famous opera star after his Three Tenors concert in 1994 with Spains Plcido Domingo and Jos Carreras. Soccer fans still love him for his rendition of Nessun Dorma, which the BBC used in its coverage of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. But his roots were humble, growing up in Modena, northern Italy. Mum Adele worked in a cigar factory and dad Fernando, who was also a tenor, in a bakery. He was often looked after by his grandmother and said being raised by women left him very much spoiled and loved. His family was by his hospital bedside when he contracted tetanus at 12 and nearly died. The youngster was in a coma for a fortnight and twice given the last rites. The experience made him appreciate life to the fullest and, despite his mums desire for him to become a teacher, the lifelong Juventus fan set about trying to realise his dream of being a goalkeeper. He failed to impress during trials with Modena in the Fifties but, after going on to have voice coaching, soon discovered his perfect pitch had nothing to do with football. Pavarotti, who married Adua in 1961, initially sang in regional opera houses and thought his big break had come when, in 1963, he was asked to stand in for Giuseppe Di Stefano another Italian opera great in La Bohme in Londons West End.

media_cameraBackstage with Soprano Joan Sutherland (l) in 1979. Picture: AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez It was a success but the tenor would have to tour throughout the Sixties until, after a show in New York in 1972, people really started to take note of his talent. Pavarotti sang Tonio in Donizettis La Fille du Rgiment at the citys Metropolitan Opera, achieving the astonishing feat of hitting nine high Cs in a row. Superstardom had finally arrived. Adua, now 81, who had three daughters with him, recalls in the film: I fell in love with the man, then I fell in love with the voice. Who wouldnt fall in love with the voice of Luciano Pavarotti? Pavarottis conquests included Madalyn Renee, a stunning and talented opera singer who he met in 1979 while doing a masterclass in New York at the top Juilliard School. She became his secretary in exchange for him tutoring her and passion soon flourished. Madalyn recalls the tenor being mischievous and having a schoolboys sense of humour. She says: He would take delight in the little funny things, the stupid things. I was accompanying him on tour, he had 28 suitcases, he never packed a suitcase in his life. He was very demanding God forbid his handkerchiefs were not where they were supposed to be. The relationship was so all-encompassing because I was the friend, the student, the secretary. He was my mentor, my teacher, my love. I never thought I would end up in a relationship with Luciano but it was hard to see where to draw the line. LUCIANO WAS MY GREAT DEFENDER I remember a recital and I was backstage holding his hot tea and all of a sudden he dragged me out on stage to sing La Bohme, the duet the lyrics include, Do you love me? and I do! They eventually broke off their affair because Pavarotti was still married to Adua. Madalyn calls it a painful moment for me and for him. They did not speak for years. With fame also came famous friends. After meeting Princess Diana in 1991, Pavarotti became more involved in charity work.

media_cameraPavarotti and Princess Diana in 1995. His main project was Pavarotti And Friends, the first of a series of concerts with the likes of Elton John and Sting raising money for charities. After the first of these he met Nicoletta Mantovani, who was working at a horseshow between her university studies. She was 23, he was 57. Nicoletta says: At the beginning I told everyone I was the assistant, but that was not true. Its not easy to say Im in a relationship with a man 34 years older. Luciano was my great defender. He was always protecting me. Soon after they got together, she found out she had MS and feared he would leave her. But Pavarotti told her: Up until now I have loved you. Now I adore you. The couple kept their relationship secret for years until they were pictured kissing on holiday in Barbados. Pavarottis fans were appalled by the supposedly devout Catholic. Furious Adua filed for divorce and demanded $128 million. When Pavarotti refused, she reportedly co-operated with an Italian investigation which led to him paying $14 million in back taxes.

media_cameraPavarotti and his bride Nicoletta Mantovani smile after their wedding at Teatro Comunale in Modena, northern Italy, 2003. Picture: Ap Adua says she heard the stories but never wanted to believe them about Pavarottis cheating. Their divorce went through in 2000. Soon after, Pavarotti rubbed salt in the wound by praising the virtues of Viagra to reporters. He and Nicoletta married in 2003. Manager Herbert Breslin popularised Pavarotti by making him do recitals and sending him on a tour of rural America, where he indulged himself in triple helpings of macaroni cheese. It was a new twist on one of Pavarottis other major passions Italian food. At his heaviest, he weighed more than 150kg. In the documentary a fellow Italian opera singer says that Pavarotti asked him to bring kilos of tortellini, Parmesan cheese and salami with him when he visited him on tour.

media_cameraPavarotti and Nicoletta Mantovani in London in 1997. On a month-long trip to China in 1986, he asked two chefs from Genoa to go with him and at their Beijing hotel, two rooms were turned into a kitchen as he refused to eat Chinese food. Such trips left Pavarotti feeling lonely so he turned to his big entourage to keep him company, including female company. Adua said that his bravado was a sham and after their split the public opinion of Pavarotti changed and the image of the sublime singer fell. I WASNT THE FATHER I WANTED TO BE Around this time Nicoletta became pregnant with twins the son was stillborn but the daughter, Alice, became a light in Pavarottis life. In the later stages of his career, Pavarotti was hammered by critics, who said his arrogance, once unquestioned as part of his talent, was now unacceptable. He failed to show up at concerts and bumbled his way through shows, cracking jokes to stall for time. Pavarotti continued looking for new collaborators and persuaded Bono to do a song with him, bombarding his Italian housekeeper with phone calls. He eventually turned up on Bonos doorstep in Dublin and forced him into the studio.

media_cameraDirector Ron Howards new film tells the untold story of the Italian opera icon. Picture: Christopher Smith/Invision/AP, File The result was the haunting Miss Sarajevo, for the victims of war in the former Yugoslavia. In the film, Bono jokingly calls Pavarotti one of the great emotional arm wrestlers he will break your f***ing arm. In 2004, Pavarotti began a 40-concert tour but got criticised by sniffy opera fans for not hitting the notes like he used to. The U2 frontman said the cracks in his voice were a sign he has lived these songs and that he had to break his heart again and again to sing them. In 2006, before the tour was finished, Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, prompting a tumultuous final 14 months of his life. His friend of 30 years, Dr Lidia La Marca, claimed Nicoletta was trying to force him to sign an American will. Pavarotti supposedly confided to Dr La Marca that he was thinking of leaving Nicoletta and changed his will two weeks before he died to cut her out. He died in September 2007, aged 71, in Modena, where 50,000 people filed past his coffin in respect. A year-long legal battle between Adua and her three daughters and Nicoletta ensued over his $450 million fortune. They eventually agreed a settlement. Had Pavarotti been alive, he would have doubtless tried to end the conflict. In a home video shot in his last months, he admits one of his few regrets was that he wasnt the father I wanted to be. But he said it with a smile and while wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Even at the end, he had not lost any of his charm. This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission. Originally published as Pavarottis wild life of sex and excess https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/music/new-film-lifts-lid-on-pavarottis-wild-life-of-sex-and-excess/news-story/767d6d36ff4001b95f18bdd9f7acf49b?from=htc_rss

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2018 Fic Retrospective

2018 Fic Retrospective

I’m still doing the thing where, for word count, I calculate word count both from fics written and pieces of meta over 500 words written. Because I did spend a fair amount of time on those meta, and in certain cases, they were the only thing I wrote that day.

Total Number of Completed Stories: 51, and all of them were published to my AO3 this time. 49 of them are finished, while 2 are WIPs, and of the 2 WIPs, you should only look to see one of them finished.

Total Word Count:

For fic: 250,598 words For meta: 105,626 words over 88 meta posts Total: 356,224 words

Fandoms Written In: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: KOTOR II, La Belle et La Bête (2014 film), Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale), The Silmarillion, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Star Wars: Leia Princess of Alderaan, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Gotham (Fox), The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, Herbert West: Reanimator, Chronicles of Narnia, The Children of Húrin, DuckTales (2017), The Magnus Archives, Adventure Time, Within the Wires

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? More. I set a yearly word goal for myself of 180,000 words (360 days ÷ 500 words), and 250,598 for fic far exceeds that. I wrote a lot (relatively speaking) of 10k+ oneshots this year, and that likely had something to do with it.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?

As usual, I’m doing a top 5 instead of just picking one. These are in no particular order:

1. In Courts of Living Stone: Of course, writing for the Silm crackotp was fun, but there were a lot of other things about this that made it so satisfying to write. Making Menegroth a beautiful and hair-raising Eldritch Location and Melian unsettling (not sinister, just deeply unsettling) were a bit part of it.

2. Is It Gremlins?: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: There are a weirdly high number of parallels between Sabine and Kallus’s characters, considered they’ve had direct, one-on-one interaction with each other all of once over the course of the series. And there was no fic exploring the potential dynamic they’d have once Kallus defected to the good guys, so I wrote that fic. And it came out… good.

3. No Words Can Express: I actually didn’t expect Roswitha to take off in my head as much as she did; she was originally a less-high strung, more put-together woman, but she was less interesting that way. Sabine originally had more of a presence in the fic than she did. I can’t remember, but I think one of my earliest ideas for the fic might have been to have it from Sabine’s POV instead of Roswitha’s. That would have also been less interesting than the end result.

4. Perilous to Mortals: No one ever explained what happened to the Lesser Rings. Ever. Why not? Well, I did explain (What happened to one of them).

5. A Vicious and Voracious Hunger: Mary Keay was fun to write.

Did you take any writing risks this year? Asides from the typical, low-stakes risks of writing fics for pool noodle ships, fics in tiny fandoms, fics with OCs as the POV character, where the only real stakes present are the possibilities that the fic will just get no exposure? Eh. I am currently writing a novel-length retelling of Beauty and the Beast, so I suppose there’s always the risk that I might not finish it, but right now I’m feeling pretty motivated to finish it.

Do you have any fanfic or ofic goals for the New Year? Finish Face to Face is the first big one. Beyond that, I want 2019 to be the year I well and truly give no fucks and write whatever my heart bids me, no matter how niche, no matter how pool noodle-ish the ship. Even if I am really and truly the one person who has ever had a desire to read a certain fic, I will put it out into the world so that at least I can read it. (Getting into smaller fandoms means having to live with less exposure, anyways.)

My best story of this year: I’m gonna do the same as last year, and pick a fic I liked that didn’t go into my favorite Top 5, since it’s hard to really say which one is undeniably, objectively the best. And the one I’m going with is Bitter Work, aka the one where Maedhros starts to learn how to write with his left hand. I thought it hit the beats it needed to, and that Maedhros and Aredhel’s dynamic carried the story well.

My most popular story of this year: If we’re going by hits, it’s Time to be Spontaneous with 685 hits, and I suspect that’s down more to it being a popular ship like Bubbline than indicative of the quality of the fic, because I consider this one, while okay, not really my best work. It was my first foray into a fandom whose diction I don’t have the strongest grasp of. By kudos and bookmarks, that’s O Heart of Light with 68 kudos and 10 bookmarks (only 5 of which are public) respectively, and this one is more like right, because I do think this was a good fic.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe: It’s probably not fair to stick one of the ones from a small fandom in here, because they’re going to get less exposure as a rule. With that, I think Tacenda definitely counts. I don’t know if it’s just that people don’t want to read fics where Mical is one of the main characters, but I’d thought this one would get more attention than it did.

Most fun story to write: That’s a tie between In Courts of Living Stone, A Vicious and Voracious Hunter, Perilous to Mortals, and Watcher Of/In the Woods.

Story with the single sexiest moment: Who do you think I am?

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Results May Vary ended in me thinking that a certain someone is less of a blithe mad scientist than he appears at first glance.

Hardest story to write: Do as the Romans Do gave me rather more trouble than I’d thought it would.

Biggest Disappointment: The Disordered Mind of Doubt wound up being rather less than I’d hoped it would be.

Biggest Surprise: I really didn’t expect Honne to break the 20k mark. Really didn’t expect that.

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Kim Kardashian West finds herself in yet ANOTHER bout of backlash and it’s all because she reacted happily to being called anorexic.

Oh, Kim…

People are once again PISSED at Kim Kardashian, but this time, they kinda have a right to be angry. On Sunday night, Kim shared a bunch of videos on her Instagram story from the City of Hope charity poker event, but the topic of discussion triggered A LOT of people – and NOT in the best way. So, in these videos, Kim recorded both Khloe Kardashian and Kendall Jenner commenting on how skinny she currently looks. Now, I know that sounds very harmless at first, but it gets worse. After being called skinny, Kim went on to egg her sisters for even more comments on how thin she looks.

And of course, Kim graciously thanking her sisters for their “compliments” on not eating and being anorexic also didn’t really help keep the critics at bay.

Yeah, her reaction definitely got her a bunch of heat – and not the good kind. One twitter user reacted to Kim’s Insta story and wrote QUOTE, “I’m sorry but Kim Kardashian filming her sisters saying ‘I don’t think you’re eating, you’re so skinny’ and saying ‘omg thank you!’ is everything wrong with that fucking woman. She is cancelled. CANCELLED. If someone says you look so skinny that they don’t think you’re eating that is NOT A COMPLIMENT to gloat about to your millions of followers that are majority young girls like yeah, don’t worry Kim, just tell everyone not to eat then they’ll look like you.”

Another wrote QUOTE, “Kim Kardashian’s Instagram story of her bragging about how skinny she is makes me wanna vom.” One fan wrote QUOTE, “Kim’s Insta story is very triggering. Yikes.” While the band Best Coast tweeted, “Kim Kardashian being obsessed with her sisters telling her she’s so skinny she looks anorexic on her Instagram story makes me want to throw my phone into outer space.”

Look, we get it. It’s perfectly fine to feel good about yourself if you’re been working hard to get into the shape you want to be and to accept compliments, but not comments like these, Kim. Not comments like these.

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