Posted by Nebo on November 20, 2000 at 16:50:33: In Reply to: Hi Nebo! Hi Kristi! HI EVERYONE I KNEW! posted by G.Andrew on November 17, 2000 at 16:44:19:
Well, i wanted to say u not to be sad that u lost your job...
but the other have already done it...
...so, I'll talk you about Antonio De Curtis (Guido knows him).
He was an Italian comic actor, he's dead now but he is considered on of our greatest actors.
People still uses his sentences and actors use his moves.
That's the story of Antonio De Curtis, aka Toto'.
He was born in the poorest zone of Naples, one of the poorest cities in Italy, in 1898. He didn't want to study, nor to become a priest as his mom wanted.
He just wanted to be an actor. he started in a veeeeeeeery little teathre in his town, in which he had small roles without a script, and he wasn't payed.
he hadn't the money to go to that far teathre by bus, so one day he asked his boss at least some coins to buy the ticket. The boss fired him.
Time after, he succeeded in have roles in a bigger teathre in Rome, where he got little success because of his own versions of a famous actor's scenes.
Again, after that, he went backl to Naples. He was still poor and with just one dress.
A friend of his, a barber, succeeded in introduce Toto' to an important teathre-owner of Naples, who was searching for new faces.
Toto' survived both the two world wars (well, he didn't fight...); in 1939 he made his first comic movie, "Fermo con le mani" (= Hands off), and in his whole life (he died in 1967 due to an heart attack) has filmed almost 100 comic movies, making 5 per year.
He became rich, he bought a flat in one of the richest zones of Rome.
Sometimes he came back to Naples, and helped poor people that he knew from his childhood.
A friend of his, Eduardo De Filippo, started as poor too, and then became a famous actor and one of the greatest writers of teathre scripts that Italy has ever seen.
In his movies, sometimes Toto' gave his character the name of his former boss who had fired him, just to kid him better :-)
So...doesn't matter if you've been fired.
Your fate may change in each moment.
An' I hope mine will do it too (^___^)
Nebo (soon or later in my life i'll learn portoguese too...maybe i'll try to act *chez* you^_^)