Fanelli Boys, The (television)

Fanelli Boys, The (television) Television series on NBC, from September 8, 1990, to February 16, 1991. Four grown brothers from a boisterous Italian family in Brooklyn move back in with their strong-willed, widowed mother when their lives go awry. Stars Joe Pantoliano (Dominic), Ann Guilbert (Theresa), Christopher Meloni (Frank), Ned Eisenberg (Anthony), Andy Hirsch (Ronnie), …

Fall Varieties (film)

Fall Varieties (film) Cartoon compilation; released by RKO in 1953.

Fallberg, Becky

Fallberg, Becky (1923-2007) Longtime head of the Ink and Paint Department at the Disney Studio. She began at Disney in 1942, and became manager of the department in 1975. She retired in 1986. She was named a Disney Legend in 2000.

Fallberg, Carl

Fallberg, Carl (1915-1996) He went to Disney in 1935 as an assistant director on cartoons, and later became a storyman and writer of comic book stories. It was he who was given the assignment of scouting out Hollywood costume shops to find a pointed sorcerer’s hat for the live-action model to wear for Fantasia.

Family, The (television)

Family, The (television) Reality series on ABC, debuting on March 4, 2003, and ending on September 10, 2003. Ten members of an extended blue-collar, Italian-American family are moved to a luxurious Palm Beach mansion where they compete for $1 million, with the mansion’s staff doubling as a board of trustees to vote one person off …