Castellini

"We are very sad to hear the news of Sparky's failing health," Reds owner Bob Castellini said in a statement.

Sparky Anderson, Ex-Tigers Manager, Placed Into Hospice AP 2010

"We are very sad to hear the news of Sparky's failing health," Reds owner Bob Castellini said in a statement.

Sparky Anderson, Ex-Tigers Manager, Placed Into Hospice AP 2010

The Castellinis are one of the most powerful Lombardian textile families, with roots dating back to the 1850s, when an ambitious Clateo Castellini started buying out his cousins to create the beginnings of a company.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

The house, which also contains an apartment and a book store, now belongs to Piero Castellini, who, along with his cousin Emanuele, owns C&C Milano.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

There are no dead bodies in swimming pools in the real Castellini world, but like the Recchis, who in the film are trying to close a global deal, the cousins are open to offers—but unlike the film, there is no rush.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

C&C Milano The Italian firm's 'Pienza Sole' fabric While based on fictional characters, the film nonetheless has a very real-life counterpart in the Castellini family, owners of luxury textile firm C&C Milano.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

"There is no other way in the U.S. to reach the amount of people that you can with the Super Bowl," says Richard Castellini, chief marketing officer of job search site CareerBuilder. com, jointly owned by Tribune, McClatchy, Microsoft and USA TODAY parent Gannett.

Super Bowl commercials will still go for laughs in 2009 2009

Despite a flood of pink slips, Castellini says, Big Game viewers expect "to be entertained," and his company will stick with off-the-wall humor, including an ad with an unhappy worker and a cute koala bear.

Super Bowl commercials will still go for laughs in 2009 2009

Piermarco Menini Piero Castellini and his son, Nicolo, in Piero's apartment, one of the locations used in the 2009 film 'I Am Love' The parallel universes of the Castellinis and the fictitious Recchis of "I Am Love" intertwine and overlap like the weave of an ikat fabric.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures A portrait of the cast of 'I Am Love,' taken in the Villa Necchi Campiglio Where fiction ends and reality begins got harder to distinguish the longer I spoke with Piero and Emanuele Castellini.

Touching the Fabric of Italian Life Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011