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Re: Viva Italia!
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Terrifyingly On-Topic.
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Whose hair would win in a fight...Spagna's, or Bonnie Tyler's circa Total Eclipse of the Heart?
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Re: Viva Italia!
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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I'd have to give the edge to Bonnie Tyler. Never underestimate those feisty Welsh genes.
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Some hair raising fighting talk. Place yer bets on ... Clockwise: Toyah, Bonnie Tyler, Roxxas the Butcher and Spagna Tune in to see who will be hair today, gone tomorrow.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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I know hardly anything about Toyah, but I love that picture. I'll have to do some investigating on the web.
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Shouldn't David Bowie be in the mix?
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Good point. His Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane hairdo was a ground-breaker for sure.
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Re: Viva Italia!
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Terrifyingly On-Topic.
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Terrifyingly On-Topic.
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True, true, although his post-Scary Monsters output (and even some of his pre-Scary Monsters output) is negligible.
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Tempus Fugitive
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"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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Re: Viva Italia!
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I am, however, interested to see the Toyah/Roxxas matchup.
PS to the Brits: I know she's a big star there, but Toyah has very little recognition in the US. I only know of her from Adrian Mole books.
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"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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Thanks, Thothkins. I liked the second song the best by far. Anyone who has been through adolescence can relate to it.
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Moving forward, I want to share a wonderful gallery of photos of Italian LGBT icon Eva Robins (best known in America as the evil temptress in the flashback scenes from Dario Argento's Tenebre.) Warning: due to nudity, this is not work safe or child friendly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgabTLluoVc
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Re: Viva Italia!
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Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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So... am I the only forum member who's actually from Italy? I didn't see anyone else chime in on this or other threads.
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Didn't there used to be an Italian Lad?
I don't know if he was actually from Italy.
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Unseen, not unheard
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So... am I the only forum member who's actually from Italy? I didn't see anyone else chime in on this or other threads. Question: You seem to be mainly a superhero fan, but were you into Paperino or Zio Paperone or Topolino as kid? I ask because one of the best things for me about growing up in South America was getting Spanish-language reprints of wonderful Italian Disney stories by such great creators as Romano Scarpa.
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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Question: You seem to be mainly a superhero fan, but were you into Paperino or Zio Paperone or Topolino as kid? I ask because one of the best things for me about growing up in South America was getting Spanish-language reprints of wonderful Italian Disney stories by such great creators as Romano Scarpa. To anyone who's interested those are the Italian names for Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and Mickey Mouse (they literally translate to Little Duck, Uncle Big Duck and Little Mouse). Not a huge fan because in the 90s the weekly Disney comics were publishing mostly contemporary new stories which were crap. If they did publish good stuff I didn't catch it... I was buying way too many superhero comics to keep up with multiple weekly Disney books. Years later I did read a few Scarpa comics and wondered why they didn't print THOSE regularly, because their fame was more than deserved. I might've been a Disney fan if I read some of that at the right age.
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Aha. I see. I was definitely the right age and the right time. My peak Disney comics years were 1978 to 1984, and most of the Italian stories reprinted were from the early and mid 70s.
One of my favorite Scarpa stories is one where a crazy book publisher kidnaps Scrooge, Rockerduck, and Filo Sganga (the chicken in the green checkered jacket,) and forces them to go find a legendary parchment from Ancient Phoenicia.
I understand that Scarpa had his entire canon of work reprinted in Italy, in volumes with scholarly commentary and interviews? I'd love to see that, even though I don't speak Italian very well.
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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I understand that Scarpa had his entire canon of work reprinted in Italy, in volumes with scholarly commentary and interviews? I'd love to see that, even though I don't speak Italian very well. Yeah, those can get crazy expensive. A few reprints in English seem to be available through Kindle or Comixology, though. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ARomano+Scarpa Fantagraphics also has some reprints, though a lot seems to be out of stock. https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/romano-scarpa
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Ha ha ! That's a great clip. Dig that 70s dancing. fascinating approach to the communication that we so often take for granted.
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