CLASH OF THE TITANS~ORSEN WELLS & PASOLINI

on the set of~ rogopag

Peter Bogdanovich: How about Rogopag?

Orson Welles: Can’t believe that. I was never in a picture with a name like that.

Bogdanovich: In one episode directed by Pasolini. You played a movie director.

Welles: Oh, yes… Censored, in Italy at least, after one single screening in Venice.

Bogdanovich: I didn’t think it was very good.

Welles: No? Why?

Bogdanovich: It was sort of obscure and arty—

Welles [laughs]: “Obscure and arty.” Simply because it didn’t happen on the banks of the Mississippi, it’s obscure and arty… You mustn’t be asked about anything that isn’t, you know, Judge Shit on the Rangeor something—

Bogdanovich [laughing]: Well, among other things wrong with it, they dubbed you into Italian.

Welles: I played it in Italian! The exhibitors must have thought the Italian public couldn’t stand my accent. They have a terrible snobbism about accents in Italy. So much so that lots of their leading actors—the girls especially—have never been heard in Italy speaking their own language in their own voices; they’re dubbed by radio actors.

Bogdanovich: I didn’t know that.

Welles: Yes. If your accent is vaguely of the north, let’s say, then everybody in the south hoots with laughter. So of course my own little touch of Kenosha would have been fatal. I read a poem in that one, and Pasolini told everyone that he’d never heard an Italian actor read Italian poetry with such simplicity and directness. He tried to get me to play a pig a couple of years ago when I was in Vienna.

Bogdanovich [laughing]: Really a pig?

Welles: A German pig. Something really obscene.

Bogdanovich: You like Pasolini?

Welles: Terribly bright and gifted. Crazy mixed-up kid, maybe—but on a very superior level. I mean Pasolini the poet, spoiled Christian, and Marxist ideologue. There’s nothing mixed up about him on a movie set. Real authority and a 

wonderfully free way with the machinery.

antebellum will host the second annual~ PASOLINI'S DEATH DAY REMEMBRANCE SALON~ NOVEMBER 2ND

for more info~ antebellum@earthlink.net

RANDOM FOR TODAY

RANDOM FOR TODAY~ OCTOBER, 10TH, 2012~ 5:10AM

LOVE~SEX & ROCK&ROLL

 LOVE~

 SEX~

& ROCK&ROLL~

ROCCI~ 2012

ever wonder~what ever happened to youtube star~rocci berrini?
well here he is looking hot in 2012.

here is one of my first postings of rocci way back in  6/14/2009.

FRANKIE TEARDROP

frankie teardrop staring gregory peck

SNOW WHITE CAFE

(rick castro tries to coerce snow white "off the wagon")

The Snow White Cafe opened it’s doors in 1946,

and it has been a favorite of the local hollywood crowd ever since.

Snow White Cafe has literally seen Hollywood transform from the dangerous slump it was to the shimmering city it has become.

But one aspect has remain the same and thankfully intact:

 A thriving community of talented artists!

When all the auditions are done and when the curtain is down for their plays on any given weekend, 

they come here to relax and to celebrate with a pint of beer or a glass of wine and VIP treatment.

 

Snow White Cafe got it's name due to one of the most creative and successful Disney’s animated films~“Snow White”~ in fact when you come in look up above the entrance and you’ll see a historical mural crafted by the very hands that gave life to this Disney’s classic.

"SNOW WHITE CAFE~ where your problems dwarf...."

"After the premiere of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Carthay Circle, Disney opened the film at the Vogue. For the party afterward, a friend offered a recently purchased shop he was remodeling into a restaurant. Disney sent Josh Meador and other animators over to paint murals of the Snow White characters on the walls and on the ceiling canvas, creating the Snow White Cafe."

Aside from the association with Walt, himself, the building also has a connection to Disneyland. This Snow White-themed room would mark Disney's first attempt at creating a themed environment for people to walk through and experience. Also, years later when he would build an actual Snow White attraction in his own amusement park, because of a lack of time and money, the planned facade to the "dark-ride" was replaced with another fanciful "Snow White" mural. So for these reasons this "wishing well-watering hole" is in many ways a spiritual predecessor to Disneyland.

In recent times, it is rumored that the Walt Disney Company, in a misguided attempt to maintain brand purity, has tried many times to put this odd little piece of history out of business ,but has never succeeded. Thus, this Disney curiosity continues.

Although the management claims that there are no ghosts within the four walls that make up this tavern, the rest of the small, two-story Spanish Colonial building (built in 1928) is well known to be haunted.
story courtesy~ richard carradine~ ghoul LA~ 

(rick & happy)

(grumpy~rick & dopey)

$ex artiste!  snow white & rick castro @ the snow white cafe

posting by richard carradine & rick castro~ photos courtesy~ $ex artiste!~ 

hollywood/antebellum correspondent

I LOVE HOLLYWOOD

as you well know~ hollywood is a gem... especially OLD HOLLYWOOD!~

(hollywood sign~ circa 1923)

 (brown derby restaurant~ Wilshire blvd~ circa~ 1930)

  (grauman's chinese theater~ circa 1927)

 (grauman's chinese theater~ circa 1928)

 (egyptian theater~ circa~ 1923

 (egyptian theater~ circa 1922)

 (hollywood & las palmas~ circa 1923

 (hollywood & las palmas~ circa 1940)

 (arial view from roosevelt hotel~ hollywood blvd & orange~ circa~ 1927)

 (vine st~ circa~ 1930)

(hollywood & las palmas~ circa~ 1926)

(sunset & fairfax~ circa 1940)