A tale based on the life of the Romanov court artist, Madame Zoia, finds down-on-his-luck art dealer Marcus Elliot overseeing the sale of the enigmatic late artist's works and uncovering facts about her dramatic private life.
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As a junior copywriter, Michael Crosby has a natural flare for producing dazzling advertising copy for a known poison. There are two flies in that ointment-his mom is dying from it and he'd rather be writing plays. Enter ingenue stage right. Ninety-eight generations after the other drop-dead gorgeous Semele, who Zeus French-fried on a bad date, this one is just as beautiful and equally desired by today's gods a meteor, shooting up overnight into the highest layers of New York society and the powerful men who own it. A mere mortal, it is Michael who proves to be the most heroic of them all when he rescues her from a similar fate being set afire during foreplay with a god-like lover. A delightful and sophisticated tale that romps through the NYC advertising world, the production of a play even more cursed than Macbeth, sectarian violence in a Polynesian paradise, as well as exploding thunderbolts on top of Mount Olympus itself, Semele captures one man's search to find his voice by losing his heart.
The Italian Chapel' is a story of forbidden love, lifelong friendships torn apart, despair and hope, set against the backdrop of the creation of a symbol that is known around the world.
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