David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Alessandra Celi
Alessandra Celi( born London, 15 August 1966) is an Italian actress.
She is the daughter of Adolfo Celi and Veronica Lazăr.
Tito Antuñano
Adolfo" Tito" Antuñano Morán( September 27, 1948 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – January 8, 1987 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico) was a former World Championship water skier.
In 1965 he won 2nd place in the Men's Tricks World Water Ski Union Championships at Surfer's Paradise Gardens in Australia.
After two more years of practice at Lake Chapala, Jalisco he went on to win 1st place in Men's Slalom, 2nd place in Men's Tricks, and 2nd place in Men's Overall at the 1967 Water Ski Championship in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
His parents were Adolfo Antuñano Tovar and Luz Morán Díaz.
His paternal grandfather was Joaquín Antuñano Villalobos a cofounder of organized Mexican rodeo, known as charrería, in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco and his great- grandfather was José Antonio de Antuñano San Martín an immigrant from Viscaya, which is located in the Basque country of Spain.
Alibi (1969 film)
Alibi is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Vittorio Gassman.
Robert Illes
Robert Illes( May 17, 1948; Downey, California) is an American award- winning screenwriter, television producer, playwright and author.
Alessandra Celi
Alessandra Celi( born London, 15 August 1966) is an Italian actress.
She is the daughter of Adolfo Celi and Veronica Lazăr.
Rob Evans (writer)
Rob Evans( also known as Robert Evans and Robert Alan Evans) born 14 March 1978 is a playwright.
Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi( 27th July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director.
Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains.
Although a prominent actor in Italian cinema and famed for many roles, he is best remembered internationally for his portrayal of Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond film" Thunderball".
Celi later spoofed his" Thunderball" role in the film" OK Connery"( aka" Operation Double 007") opposite Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen is a 1976 French- Italian comedy film starring Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi and Felice Andreasi.
Veronica Lazăr
Veronica Lazăr( 6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian- born Italian actress.
Lazăr was born in Bucharest in 1938.
She graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography( where she also obtained a degree in psychology, which she practiced until 1994, dealing mainly in couple's therapy) and subsequently played roles in Romanian theatre[ notably a run of" Right You Are( if you think so)" in 1963- 64].
Despite being a Romanian baroness, at 26, she fled her home country to escape anti-Semetic persecution and eventually settled in Italy in 1965.
She managed to learn the Italian language in only a few weeks and had planned to move on to the United States or Israel, but became entranced with Rome.
There, she met and married Italian actor Adolfo Celi with whom she had two children, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi.
She made her screen debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's" Last Tango in Paris"( 1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films," La Luna"( 1979)," The Sheltering Sky"( 1990), and" Besieged"( 1998).
Lazăr is probably best known internationally for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's" Inferno"( 1980), as well as the ill- fated Martha in Lucio Fulci's" The Beyond"( 1981).
She later appeared in Argento's" The Stendhal Syndrome"( 1996) in a role that was removed from the North American version( though she is still billed in the end credits).
Her other films included Michelangelo Antonioni's" Identification of a Woman"( 1982)," Towards Evening"( 1990)," The Prince's Manuscript"( 2000) and" Ginostra"( 2002).
Her last role was that of the main character Lorenzo's loving grandmother in Bertolucci's" Me and You"( 2012).
Veronica Lazăr was a renowned woman of culture and a cultural ambassador between Italian and Romanian cinema( the latter, a position she began in 1989).
She was a linguistic interpreter and was seen as a symbolic figure with a protective aura by her countrymen in both Italy and Romania.
She was also president of the Itaro Art Foundation and was instrumental in its 2007 retrospective on Romanian cinema held in Rome and Pisa.
She was heavily involved with the acting students at Teatro Valle and often would cook meals for the them at her home and bring them to the theatre.
The students there nicknamed her" Nonna Veronica."
Lazăr also coordinated the construction of a hospital in Mali over the course of a year, on orders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When she returned to Italy, she brought with her African fabrics, statues, and carpets, many of which were still in her home when she died.
Lazăr loved to play cards, share with her friends, and had a special affinity for the sea.
At her funeral, she wanted her 18- year- old niece, a career musician already, to play the theme from" Schindler's List" throughout the Jewish cemetery in Prima Porta where she was laid to rest.
" If someone wants to take a shower, I'll make my home available."
-- Veronica Lazăr

Question: Were Adolfo Celi and Robert Illes of the same nationality?
Answer: no