quote: …A homosexual is not someone who sways his hips or uses make-up. It is Greece, it is Rome. It is a virile creativity…

So when rejected, and frustrated : maybe Franco decides on a joint remix : Fellini’s ‘Ginger & Fred’ and ‘Last Tango In…. Italy’. Franco (remembering Maria C. had Onassis)-and not to be outdone (vicious queens will never tolerate that!) – decides to hook up and co- star with Silvio B.(the lizard – eyed Svengali). Starring then: as two silly nasty creatures dancing about on the sexual, cultural and political dance floors of Italy , in different forms of denial. Both saddened that their potential young candidates and fans are dwindling, for their respective forms of ‘dance cards’. So they retire to the wash room: one’s mental mascara is running, the other trying to check the Botox features and keep dapper applying more dye goo to its hair. Repairing their appearance as ‘drag’ human beings, so as to go on – dance Silvio’s own special house tango – and win top prize on a Silvio B – owned, TV reality talent show.

P,S I heard they had trouble withe censors….one star appeared to too much enjoying the ‘Buttering up the Butt’ scene, being done by the other star.

In that interview he says
“Mai piaciuto mettere in piazza le mie cose segrete. Il movimento gay mi ha sempre fatto schifo. L’omosessuale non è uno che sculetta e si trucca. È la Grecia, è Roma. È una virilità creativa.
I have never liked to disclose my secret things. The gay movement has always disgusted me. A homosexual is not someone who sways his hips or uses make-up. It is Greece, it is Rome. It is a virile creativity”

Non vorrei un mondo omosessuale. La donna ha una funzione importante. Ama più di chiunque. Ma la dedizione più forte la trovi nell’uomo. La donna è incostante.
I would not like a homosexual world. Women have an important function. They love more than anyone else. But one finds the strong devotion in a man. Women are inconstant.

Have you ever loved women?
Ha avuto grandi amori femminili?
Ho scopato un bel po’. Anche perché ero molto bellino. Con molte delle mie attuali amiche ho cominciato facendo porcherie. Ma la maggior parte delle mie amicizie sono state di amore greco con uomini.
I have fucked around quite a bit. Even because I was very pretty. With many of my current lady friends, I started by doing filthy things. But most of my friendships have been Greek love with men.

I suoi grandi amori? Your biggest loves?
Fece scalpore quello con Visconti di cui ero aiuto. Un caso esemplare di maestro che ti insegna a dare il meglio di te. La donna ti dà amore, l’uomo la carica per diventare qualcuno.
The one with Visconti was a scandal. It was a classica case of master who teaches you to give the best of yourself. A woman gives you love, a man gives you the energy to become someone

Lei è credente? Are you a believer?
Non si può non esserlo. Lo è anche chi non crede di esserlo. Il soprannaturale ha il sopravvento.
One cannot not be. Even those who think not to believe are believers. Supernatural has the upper hand

L’omosessualità l’ha ostacolata nei suoi rapporti con la Chiesa?
Has your homosexuality hindered your relations with the Church?
Il peccato della carne è eguale sia se fatto con un uomo che con una donna.
The sins of the flesh is the same is done with a man or with a woman.

Then, commenting the case of two gay men who were arrested in Rome for kissing in public, he said:

quelli non sono omosessuali, ma due pazze che fanno l’amore come le bestie e che non posso sostenere. Ne disprezzo il modo di comportarsi al punto da sentirmi più vicino a Gentilini quando ventila la possibilità di mandarle nei campi di concentramento.
Thoseare not homosexuals, but two crazy ladies who make love like beasts and whom I cannot support. I despise their behavior, so much that I feel like closer to Gentilini when he ventilates the possibility to send them in concentration camps.

Note: Gentilini was the extreme right wing mayor of Treviso who said he wanted to send gays to concentration camps.

Is this by any chance a still from Frengo’s R&J film?

That would fit in so well with the way you so creatively
accessorize your threads.

To il pene del mio cor: she did not provoke him. Zeffirelli was the first one who drag politics into this press conference, joking in very poor taste about Piero Marrazzo, who was the governor or Lazio, belonging to the PD (Partito Democratico, and therefore an opponent of Berlusconi), and who had to resign because of his patronizing Brazilian transgender prostitutes. At this point Livia Bidoli says: “Berlusconi as well. Let’s not say things like these, please. Let’s not drag politics into this. Berlusconi has a brothel in his own house. One is not better than the other, clear?”. (I am sure everyone knows that over the summer Berlusconi has been in the news for his own patronizing (female) prostitutes and even for “coohorting with minors”, as his own wife accused him).
At this point, Zeffirelli explodes. But he was not provoked. He was the first one to mention Marrazzo. On the contrary, one could say Bidoli was provoked.

Manou: why the correct target? The journalist was clearly upset that Zeffirelli tried to denigrate a political opponent during a press conference supposedly devoted to opera. Marrazzo had nothing to do with this press conference.