Bartolomeo Pagano
"The chop does not digest, once in the basket was half a chicken for lunch and maybe a apple. But I ate mica with no extras, I had pasta with meatballs and wine, maybe close to the producer. But twenty years ago they took half gut and eat a dozen times now to day. White rice. They came to take my blue car, Excellency called me, but got up dressed as a demigod papier-mache rocks. You know what sir? My memories are all in black and white. "
toupe The art of Richard Rossi Richard Ross, he was leaning on 'only witness at the scene of polystyrene. Richard Ross in the dressing room of his trailer at Cinecitta, had died. On the mirror, just under the spotlight with a photo of Vanessa Lane dedication "To my Hercules with love." Commissioner Tozzi in his hand the number of "VIP scandal" of the week before, on the cover Ross hit a paparazzo to Via Veneto, Vanessa Lane while she covered her face with her purse. The title more or less read, "Hercules and the Princess of Atlantis, love and barrel". Love had blossomed on the set of the film, "Samson against the king of Atlantis' two billion at the box office. That convinced the producers to repeat immediately with "Maciste against the Dinosaur." Instead came after the beating, she was in and out from the emergency room with bruises and bandages, most of the time drunk. He later accompanied by a swarm of photographers, most of the time asshole.
"I have defeated in the nights of Cabiria Hercules, Samson, the giant ants, but I could not beat time commissioner. That always wins over all. She has remained as it was then , only now talking about. We were shooting silent films Commissioner why not recognize me when I approached and I called her by name, "Anna," I said. And that's why you have not turned, she does not know my voice. "
A Ross had killed with a sword master, a sword of wood painted with leather handle, stuck in the middle of the sternum. Stuff from the carnival. Strange death for one who had been living playing the part of the hero. Under the signed photos, with Ross, who knocked down two columns of plasterboard Tozzi found a sheet of squared paper that said "Touch it again and kill you." Then, steroids, weight plastic with water inside. Leaving the caravan had sent De Simone to buy a pack of tabloid "and mò that there is co Famo 'commissi stuff? " De Simone, you know that my grandmother used to say? " not saying on 'grandmother? " What if a sin to think evil, but often there s'azzecca " Then he walked toward the trailer of the Princess of Atlantis.
Vanessa Lane, for "friends" Rita Ciancarelli, became famous took third in the competition for Miss Italy " I did not win because I did not accept compromise, "he said," how do I made by me and someone else had done well, his photo in the hotel room with Chrystal producer of the movie "Betzabea nymphomaniacs and the Amazons" had made the rounds of news agencies, and had launched the Olympus of the starlets from Peplum. She had her breasts redone, and an alibi. He had spent the night with the dinosaur, he said.
I Maciste, the strongest man in the world, the leader shook my hand once. The papers said that I also beat Primo Carnera, even with one arm behind his back. When I knocked on the trailer she was screaming, and he beat her. Came to the door, had the lipstick around the mouth and black tears. "What are you, old man?" Time always wins out, sir.
Franco Bertani aka Frank Brown, was the dinosaur. Was walking in a rubber suit with Cinecittà and scales, he held the head of the monster under his arm, like a watermelon. A stage assistant followed him step by step tenendogli lift the tail with a nylon cord in the action scenes could be seen a mile away. "What the swelled de barrel, here everybody knows ...." He said scratching the scales. " And I bet you we rode ... " Tozzi had waved under his nose in a photo in front of a plate of linguine with mussels kissed Vanessa Lane in the second cover of "Novella 2000" was the scandal of the month, the Princess of Atlantis was a whore and a cuckold Hercules. He had the appearance, and now, was promoted to an antagonist. To get the party was over three hundred would-be dinosaurs, roaring best, and above all it was coupled with the protagonist. Tozzi opened the ticket checked " you wrote this yourself? . He wanted to kill him, really. Why beat her, and jealousy. That even the dinosaurs, are jealous, but when he arrived at the trailer, found him dead beautiful. The dinosaur had an alibi anche lui, aveva passato la notte ­con la Principessa di Atlantide, e cosa più importante, arrivando aveva visto un vecchio figurante, Bartolomeo Pagano, uscire dalla roulotte, vestito da guerriero.
"De Simone, cosa sappiamo di questo Pagano?" Commissà, Bartolomeo Pagano ha una storia strana, è stato un divo del muto, lei se lo ricorda? ” “ De Simone, che facciamo, prendiamo per il culo? " Pagano Era stato il primo Maciste della storia, sul set aveva incontrato Anna Shavich, e da quel giorno non era esistita nessun’altra. When it was the era of silent films, Bartolomeo Pagano was unable to speak or camera, or to telfon white, because the gods do not speak, and the world forgot him forever. Why mortals forget. She became ill with malaria after a trip to Africa, and he continued to look every morning with his hand, into the empty side, at least until the first day of shooting for "Maciste against the Dinosaur" when he saw Vanessa Lane in the middle the maidens in the temple of Atlantis. Tozzi Pagano found in a storeroom of the soundstage N ° 45. lived there for years, The Guardian brought him to eat, and he was arranging it, making the appearance. "Mr Pagano, sono della polizia, dovrei farle qualche domanda…” “ La stavo aspettando ” disse Maciste, a braccia conserte tra due colonne di cartone.
“mi allaccio gli stivali, ed ho 50 anni, stringo il guanto di cuoio e ne ho 40, metto la spada nel fodero e ne ho di nuovo trenta, il petto si gonfia, le vene battono, i denti e i capelli ricrescono, la schiena è dritta. Ora ho vent’anni, come ieri. Quando ho bussato alla porta, lui ha aperto ed è scoppiato a ridere "bel costumino, nonnetto” . Poi ho pensato alle lacrime scure di Anna e al rossetto sfocato intorno his mouth. "I have Maciste" I said, and I closed the door of the trailer behind me. You know what sir? My memories are all in black and white, except the blood of yesterday. "
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