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Showing posts with label Be Italian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Be Italian. Show all posts

Monday, 27 March 2023

When you pinch me try to pinch me where there's fat

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The office beckons..

Oh, FFS. It's Monday again! How did that happen?

Never mind, eh? It's Fergie's birthday today [no, not that one - the one with the Black Eyed Peas], and, on this Tacky Music Monday, I think we deserve a boost of brilliant choreography featuring said lady to perk us up!

But there's more places to go with this, bien sûr...

...and, inevitably, the classic:

Have a good week, dear reader.

Sunday, 7 February 2021

Totty of the Season

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Ramon Novarro (6th February 1899 – 30th October 1968)

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Damian Lewis (50 on 11th February)

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Tom Hiddleston (40 years old on 9th February)

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Chris Mears MBE (diver, born 7th February 1993)

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Ralf Little (born 8th February 1980)

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Cristiano Ronaldo (born 5th February 1985)

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James Dean (who would have been 90 on 8th February)

Well, that's cheered up a cold, sleety Sunday!

As has this...

Monday, 20 January 2020

Pick the flower now before the chance is past

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Another option for beach-wear for our forthcoming trip to Spain - from Giulietta degli spiriti

We have a centenary to celebrate today, dear reader - that of possibly the most extravagantly camp film director of them all, Signor Federico Fellini!

As I said a decade ago on this very blog:
...Federico Fellini was indeed one of the most influential film directors in European movie history. A pioneer of the so-called "neo-realist" style, he collaborated with Ingrid Bergman's hubbie Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and her husband Carlo Ponti, Anna Magnani, Anita Ekberg and even Goldie Hawn. His film Le Notti di Cabiria was later adapted by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields as the musical Sweet Charity.
Fellini's legacy is vast and wide-ranging - everyone from Tim Burton to Terry Gilliam, David Lynch [with whom he shares a birthday] to Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Baz Luhrmann owes him a huge debt - but there are one or two tributes that, for me, are the finest summations of a life's creativity...



...and of course, as it is Tacky Music Monday, my favourite musical tribute to the man's work:


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Federico Fellini (20th January 1920 – 31st October 1993)

An interesting review of some of the great man's most stylish films

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

A year of musical memories...

I am reminded that I haven't yet posted my "Songs of the Year" for 2010!

How remiss of me... Anyhow, before January slips out of the back door, and while the slough of despond is still upon us as we wait eagerly for the first pay day of the year, here are ten songs that sum up my year for me quite succinctly.

This is not (and could never be) a complete and comprehensive list, as there are many more I could have included (and many more I have no doubt forgotten completely in my ditzy fashion!).

Nevertheless, enjoy...











What a year...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Tu vuo' fa' ll'americano

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Born in Rimini 90 years ago yesterday, Federico Fellini was indeed one of the most influential film directors in European movie history. A pioneer of the so-called "neo-realist" style, he collaborated with Ingrid Bergman's hubbie Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and her husband Carlo Ponti, Anna Magnani, Anita Ekberg and even Goldie Hawn. His film Le Notti di Cabiria was later adapted by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields as the musical Sweet Charity.

Even today, his film , having been adapted as a musical in the 80s, has become a big hit in its film version Nine. A good enough excuse, really to post this (again)... Be Italian, indeed!


Similarities, anyone?


Federico Fellini on IMDB

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Be Italian!

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Apparently the new movie Nine - based upon Fellini's - follows the life of film director "Guido Contini" played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life - including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Dame Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), his glamorous courtesan (Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson of the Black-Eyed Peas) and his mother (Sophia Loren).

Sounds marvellous - and what a cast!!