VL-IV: Chap7- Italian fake book

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Tue Jan 13 11:49:51 CST 2009


Ventunesimo: 21st  testa puntita:  pointed head

Porcelain fate:  great phrase!  deuteragonist: second most important character (in this case, Mario).

Italian Fake book by D & G.  In the same vein as the various jokey misassociations sprinkled through the story:  
Woody Allen in the Henry Kissenger Story, etc.   How about this one from real life: 
in Brooklyn, there's a Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology.


There was an episode of the so-so show Quantum Leap where the protagonist leapt into the body of an 
Italian wedding singer and had to fake a rendition of Volare.


How hard could it be to fake Volare?

Some modest examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeI0NeOjhI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odpCdNS4NiA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6RwoESOn4





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