The 1998 film "Life Is Beautiful" came from which country?

Which financial advisor wrote the 1997 bestseller "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom"? Who hit 70 home runs in 1998, breaking Roger Maris's single-season record? Which 1998 film has a playwright working on "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter"? Jeff Bridges plays a Los Angeles slacker who loves bowling in which 1998 film? In which 1998 film is a comet on a collision course with Earth? 1998 marked the centennial of which war? Matt Damon played the title paratrooper in which 1998 war film? Who defeated New York senator Alfonse D'Amato in 1998?