Tuesday, December 23, 2008

How Much Klonipin Do I Give My Dog?

the 80 spot with BISTEFANI

An assistant pastry chef a bit-'listless, a chief producer of Pandora and the grudge panettone, an office with the company logo in big letters and innumerable sweets on which quibble : these are the essential ingredients of Bistefani spot, commercial in the 80's and early 1990 have earned a position of unquestioned primacy among the intermissions of the Christmas holiday period.

stars of the long series of "battibeccanti" complaints are the two most likeable actors Renzo Rinaldi, the hypothetical "Mr. Bistefani" perpetually Cast in the Savings and eager to make ends meet your company, and Stefano Gragnani, better known in the shoes of the baker Charles, presenter from time to time various new confectionery plant and funny and trusted adviser of the grumpy manager.


Characters greed entrepreneur strutting in his shriveled complete with glasses next to the accountant by thin pastry and submissive always ready to mock him behind two caricatures are funny and formidable that have embodied the leif motiv for commercials Bistefani about twenty years, decreeing the great success thanks to the traditional television jingle ("Santa Claus, as good as there ") and the historical closing sentence:

" But who am I, Santa? ", with a beard and hat of Santa Claus, popping out of nowhere, appearing to adorn Mr. Bistefani against his will.



Trivia:


- After collaborating with director Monicelli for the film "Il Marchese del Grillo" (in which she played the part of Bacchus) and an appearance in the film "My wife is a witch "along with Renato Pozzetto and Eleonora Giorgi, in 1982, a year before the launch of the spots Bistefani who see the protagonist, Renzo Rinaldi (picture) is involved in the filming of "monstrously prohibited Dreams" with Paolo Villaggio and directed by Alessandro Haber Blacks relatives. Between 89 and then come '92 - listen, listen - Tinto Brass signed two films: "Paprika", alongside Deborah Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, and "Cosi fan tutte" with an anchor scosciatissima Claudia Koll. Born in Viareggio in 1941, Renzo Rinaldi passed away at the age of 63 years died in Rome on February 20 2004.


- Stefano Gragnani (picture) is still operating in the entertainment world, mainly as an interpreter of small film roles and television. Among the most important films that took part, we remember "bust, gassed completely melted," the 1982 film with Diego Abatantuono and Edwige Fenech, and in 2007, "Commissioner Manara" by D. Marengo and "The Borgias" by F. Sagan.

- Bistefani The company, an evolution of the original biscuit created in 1934 by Louis Bistefani become, twenty years later an industry of sweets among the most famous in Italy, in which two hundred employees are committed to stable 200 000 tons of packaged items and pastries for breakfast: from Krumiri to Baci di dama to the panettone Easter and doves.


- Five years after 'acquisition of New Forneria Bistefani the company, founded by former EMS' union of Motta and Alemagna in his body the marks Good day (the first bagel was born in Italy in the years 50), Ciocorì , Walkers and Yoyo, the 'business-driven family of Casale Monferrato Avenue, opens a new season at' sign of growth: today the turnover of 'enterprise Piedmont is 84 million euro but real growth prospects bode well in achieving € 200 million in five or six years. On the launch pad c 'is just a new set of products under the megabrand Good day, that has recently Bistefani detected. This is a strategic plan that provides for the 'extension' s steel trade, which has put together a search to some timeless logos such as Nutella and Coca Cola. Good day so the brand will be articulated in a new family of references: Good day sandwiches, stuffed with fruit or chocolate chips, the minifette, and even then the cookies.


- It 's currently in the pipeline is the production of a new advertising campaign, recovering the' hypothesis of a possible return of the famous advertisement from the study carried out in the eighties Armando Testa and much appreciated by the general public.

And while I suggest everyone not to get lost on the website of Bistefani, la pagina con l'elenco degli spot realizzati dalla ditta e visionabili in tempo reale ( link: http://www.bistefani.it/index2.html ) pur se con qualche kilo e anno in più per potermi sedere ad incastro, come facevo allora (Natale '83), fra le casette di cartoncino e i personaggi plastici e consumati del presepe della nonna, auguro a ciascuno di voi, amici anniottantari di questo blog fatto di colori, racconti e nostalgie, di trascorrere delle feste felici accanto a chi felici sa rendervi per davvero.

Ci risentiamo tutti nell’anno nuovo per tanti altri viaggi indietro nel tempo!

Un abbraccio immenso! Buon Natale! Luca

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Mysore Mallige Blue Fuilm

MB: a chill on 'FIRE ISLAND

"Enter the house of ghosts, but beware of the skull which falls, as you follow the steps you need to avoid the ghost knight in armor and you have to make sure the floor is not quite sure. Skip silent next to the skeleton in prison underground. You may wake up at any time and you run back to the starting point. Then climb the stairs creak. "

In 1987, the MB advertised in this way, "Wisdom", a veritable cult among the games of the 80s, somewhere between horror and action.
With his unforgettable three-dimensional game board and the legendary skull fluorescent tumbled to the ground from above central black tower, this board game has captured the excitement and wonder of all the kids at the time, being perhaps one of the first games "three dimensional" in which the development of the game was physical from the specific features of the board.

The game was simply a contest of speed among the players called to reach the first to close the coffin lid on top of the tower in which imprison the ghost.
To do so, however, was necessary to overcome the pitfalls of the four locations recreated on the game: they left from the entrance guarded by a Knight fitted accepts and then move on to the living room from the "floor unsafe", continuing into the dark cellar of the secret passage and coming up to the dungeon, which was held last challenge with the deceased.

The funniest part of each game was no doubt in shooting the spider on the game board after you move your character: whether to leave was the symbol of the skull, in fact, the player whose turn it was to drop the charge through the plastic coffin open, communicating with each setting of the board, could have done randomly pop up anywhere, enabling the traps of various rooms and hitting so everyone on red boxes.

Trivia:

- "Which Witch" was the original version of "Misty", published in 1970. Unlike the remake anniottantesco, however, its structure was completely devoid of cardboard and plastic tower with stairs, but most did not have the precious details that glowed in the dark, the true finesse of the game.

- The MB produced a version with even more "ectoplasmic" of this game with the release of "The Real Ghostbusters" game, review of "Misty"-style cartoon, set between the city of New York and the famous brick barracks rossi dei mitici acchiappa fantasmi!


- Di recente, un altro gioco da tavola che richiama molto da vicino l’idea iniziale di “Brivido” ha fatto la sua comparsa fra gli scaffali dei negozi di giocattoli: trattasi di “Scooby doo”, versione action game dell’omonima serie tv, che riprende in chiave moderna le dinamiche “lunaparkiane” da casa degli specchi del classico MB.


Nel panorama immenso dei giochi da tavolo prodotti negli anni '80 c’è un altro board game che merita certamente una menzione speciale: si tratta dell’Isola di fuoco, autentico trionfo scenografico grazie a una plancia di gioco in rilievo che resta tutt’oggi senza eguali.
Quattro coraggiosi esploratori sulle tracce della pietra magica custodita dal minaccioso idolo Vul-Kan, creatore di continue palle di fuoco capaci di investire l'intera isola con fiamme roventi: questo il concept essenziale intorno al quale sviluppare le partite.

Ma impossessarsi del cristallo rosso non era la sola missione: per completare il gioco bisognava infatti uscire indenni dal faccia a faccia col temuto idolo negro, glissando per giunta i molesti tentativi di appropriazione della pietra da parte degli avventurieri superstiti.

Con regole molto semplici, basate sulla meccanica primordiale del gioco dell'oca (lancio di nut and move to follow), the challenges of Fire Island were thus divided into three phases: an initial phase in which groped to reach the top of the island to retrieve the precious gem, the latter of which take away one of the possible escape, almost all of the various shooting fireballs (capable, covering multiple locations simultaneously, to turn back and lose to the hapless explorers hit) and a third in which groped the tripping of the other competitors pulling the nut and drawing a card even had the opportunity to replace the real gem with its fake author.

an hour of fun guaranteed, therefore, between jokes, plot twists and barrel of luck in the best tradition of the action game canned targati 80 years.


And now the big question: what, including "Misty!" and "The Island of Fire", your favorite board game?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Woman Sitting On Women

HE-MAN and the Masters of 'universe 80


All of the 80 children, all who, like myself, were born and raised in the decade of pasta Dash and boxes of Lego and have lived in that period their happy childhood, they all will recall the story (and hair) of the legendary He-man, the strongest man in the universe, brought to fame from a popular line of Mattel toys and action figures which was followed by an animated series produced by Filmation between 1983 and 1985.

The story of Prince Adam, son of King Randor and Queen Marlena, bored by the gym liscissima wasters and blonde hair, always lost in teen pastimes and definitely not operating in the field, which is actually the grand He -Man, defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull and guarantor of peace on the planet Eternia, a land of magic and technology.

Together with him his trusted friend Cringer, tigrnone a coward who, during the transformation of he-man takes on the appearance of powerful Battle-Cat and aggressive, his steed and companion.
Alongside the rest of his friends, "the Masters of the Universe" He-man is spent in the fight against evil to defend the planet from the demonic forces of the evil Skeletor.

To protect his family, Adam keeps his double identity secret: they are the only ones to be aware Sorceress The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, which gave him the powers, Duncan (Man-at-Arms) chief palace guards and Orko, the little magician bungler.

The greatest power of He-man and physical strength, but what most distinguishes it is the selflessness and sense of right, remarked at the end of each episode by a morality that serves a practical teaching aimed primarily at younger viewers.



Trivia:


- The original animated series consists of two sequels, both manufactured by Mattel, the first in 1990, was "He-man, new adventures," 65 episodes of the 1983 continuation of the story this time set in the distant future on the planet Primus, ruled by the wise Sebrian, with a plot and a style clearly inspired by Star Wars. The second, in 2002, composed of all 39 episodes that reflect the events originating from the start with a modernized style of characters but remained fairly true to the original.

- In this animated series was also produced the film with Dolph Lundgren in the role of He-Man and Frank Langella in the guise of Skeletor, the film is rejected by critics and audiences, now considered a B- movie.

- The first episode created was "The Cosmic Comet", but the first to be broadcast in the United States was instead "Diamond Ray of Disappearance". The last episode was produced "The Cold Zone", written by J. Michael Straczynski (author of, among other famous writer of the TV series Babylon 5), but does not provide an end to history.

- The animation of the cartoon was produced by Filmation in his characteristic style, with its generous use of rotoscoping: the characters faithfully reproduce the positions and movements of real people, with frequent use of sequences of footage, so this cartoon shows a certain monotony of the animation, the studio created symmetrical characters for later use simply by tilting and constantly working the so-called stock, that is, those scenes that were repeated from time to time, perhaps changing backgrounds or direction.

- to replicate the success of He-man with children was then proposed, result of the smaller, the feminine alter ego of the already famous hero of all muscle and so witty, aka She-Ra, his twin sister, landed on the small screen in 1985 with an initial series of 65 episodes and a second of 28.

- The nickname of Prince Adam is derived from an old expression that a second "He-man" shows a man who is considered a real male, a macho manly.

- While the image of He-man is inspired, in part, to that of Conan the Barbarian, the character of Skeletor, with the skull-shaped face, reminiscent of Thulsa Doom, an opponent of Kull of Atlantis in tales of the writer Robert E. Howard.


Friday, November 7, 2008

Low Temperature 96.5 Mean

A telescope for drinking: the SHORT STRETCH

Vero e proprio culto per piccoli scout, “pic-nicchettari” all’avanguardia e appassionati di gite fuori porta, il mitico bicchiere telescopico è stato, fra i tanti feticci che gli anni 80 hanno tenuto a battesimo, uno dei più diffusi e rappresentativi dell'intero decennio.

Con il vantaggio della sua leggerezza e del poco ingombro, il bicchierino estensibile, che da chiuso aveva tutta l’aria di un disco da okey, si dimostrava praticissimo per ogni tipo di viaggio.

Il concetto era molto semplice: 4 o 5 plastici anelli concentrici che si incastravano l’uno nell’altro grazie a un secco colpo di mano per fare apparire, dal nulla, un praticissimo bicchiere di medie dimensioni, completo il più delle volte di un coperchietto con vano porta pillole.

Meno comodo e spassoso, invece, il rischio che il bicchiere si richiudesse su se stesso una volta riempito, sensazione estremamente appagante di cui solo chi è stato orgoglioso possessore di questo oggetto può farsi fregio.
Oggi il bicchiere telescopico è quasi completamente sparito dai negozi.
Ma non del tutto: in alcune botteghe of household utensils, among the dusty bric a brac bazaar of Chinese or point of sale reserved for trekkers (for its aluminum version, pictured above) is still possible to find in a rainbow of colors, this magical shot to death , the quintessence of all the manuals of the Junior Woodchucks, still very valuable ally in our quell the relentless (and delicious) thirst for 80 years.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Birthday Invitations On 11 Years Old

"Always together, eternally divided": Ladyhawke

The year was 1985 when in cinemas around the world was projected to Ladyhawke by Richard Donner, a new U.S. film destined to enter the annals of fantasy on the big screen.

Starring a very young Matthew Broderick, already reached success through the adolescent rebel WarGames, here in the role of Gaston Philippe, Rutger Hauer, acclaimed interpreter of a scary cyborg in Blade Runn, now as Captain Etienne Navarre, and Finally, the charming Scarface Elvira, better known as Michelle Pfeiffer, this time disguised as Isabeau d'Anjou, the young mysterious wheel around which the whole story.

The story takes place in the middle of the Middle Ages, sometime in a fortified village in central Europe where the little thief Phillipe Gaston, the Mouse said for his petite physique, escapes from the prisons of the castle of Aguillon shortly before his execution.

During the escape from the city, chased by the dreaded guards of the bishop who had become a slave, the young man meets Etienne Navarre, the former captain of the patrol that bishops, fighting against his old soldiers, led him to safety.

Phillip will not be easy to understand that his dark savior is actually the victim of a curse, hurled against him and his beloved from the evil Bishop of the county, fell in love with a young woman without being paid, is to use magic to split the pair. And è così che di giorno lei si trasforma nello splendido falco che Navarre cura e protegge con dedizione, mentre la notte lui assume le sembianze di un feroce lupo grigio, docile solo alle carezze di Isabeau.


In loro soccorso subentra ben presto anche il vecchio eremita Imperius, un tempo monaco al castello del Vescovo, ripudiato da quest’ultimo e a conoscenza del triste segreto dei due amanti, che svela a Navarre l’unica via di salvezza: i due potranno rompere il maleficio soltanto se riusciranno ad assumere le loro sembianze umane, nel medesimo istante, davanti agli occhi del Prelato. Per farlo essi dovranno tornare al castello del Vescovo nell’attesa dell’imminente arrival of "a day without the night and a night without day," Elder foreshadowed in a dream I guess.

An escape, a meeting, a love story, all focus, therefore, about the attempt - the final satisfied - Isabella and Navarro returning to the town of Aguillon to break the spell that has long and keeps them separated so they can once again reunite as two lovers made.



CURIOSITY ':


- The location from which escapes Philippe, in the original plot and the eagle and the Bishop is the Vesco the city, but in the Italian dubbing L'Aquila became Aguillon to recruit French-speaking calls, both for consistency with the names of the characters, is probably for fear that presenting a "bad" identified as an Italian film could be criticized by our public.

- Despite the recall, in the Italian, a French-style setting, the film was shot (in line with the original story) almost entirely in Italy, between the provinces of Parma and Piacenza in the Park Nazionale del Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, Campo Imperatore (L'Aquila in the Province). The refuge is the Rock of Monaco Calascio (pictured above), while the suburbs Medieval shown include the places Torrechiara, Castell, Soncino, Bacedasco of Vernon. The church inside which there is the final scene is San Pietro in Tuscania.

- The soundtrack of the film is the work of the composer and orchestrator Andrew Powell. In 1996 it was published the final version, entitled "Ladyhawke - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," which replaces the first version of 1985 and contains new songs and reworked.

- The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1986 for Best Sound (Best Sound) and Best Sound Editing (Best Effects - Sound Effects Editing), but not win. Ladyhawke, however, has brought home the "Saturn Award of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Costume Design (Best Costumes) and Best fantasy film (Best Fantasy Film), also received nominations for Best Music (Best Music) and Best Actress (Best Actress ). Among the other awards we are also mindful of the Golden Reel Award Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing U.S. - ADR and Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects.


- The Sword of Navarre is a small anachronism in the film has a shape next to the thirteenth century, a period in which the story takes place

- The eclipse profile from the rose window of the church, while Navarre beats Marquet.

- Navarre, in the final sequence, he entered the church and engages in a duel with a soldier who took his place as captain of the guard: the combat is mostly "one by one, typical of styles such as greek, not medieval.

No one else dares to move, including the platoon of soldiers who exceed Navarre before entering the city, and even when the bishop was killed, none of the many clergymen present lift a finger: you arrive at the scene final where Isabeau Navarre raises his arms in the applause of all. If you give for granted that no one knows the story of the curse, seems rather irrational, then a plot in cui un uomo entra in chiesa durante la funzione, attacca le guardie, uccide il Vescovo, e per questo viene applaudito.

- Leo McKern, interprete dell’eremita Imperius, si è spento il 23 luglio del 2002, un paio di anni dopo essersi ritirato dalla scena teatrale a causa del diabete e di altri problemi di salute.


CITAZIONI:

- "Non ho visto ciò che i miei occhi hanno visto, non credo ciò che la mia mente crede, mio Dio. Queste sono cose magiche, sono cose misteriose, di cui ti prego, Signore, non rendermi partecipe."

- "È giorno vecchio mio. Lo era ieri e lo sarà domani. "

-"Signore, in verità I talk to God all the time, but, no offense, do not ever appointed. "

-" I believe in miracles, Marquet. My role requires me to. "

-" The best results I obtained with lies "