fri., 21 sept., 2012: occupy cinecittà, ii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

ITALIAN:    “Cinecittà occupata”  ‡

ITALIAN:    “Salvia mola.”  ‡‡

ITALIAN:    “Cinetittàs”  ‡‡‡

     ‡ )  “Occupy Cinecittà” — an Italian labor action & occupy-offshoot by striking union workers  to save the world’s largest movie studio outside Rome fr. real estate developers & Berlusconi cronies who plan to turn some of the legendary movie studio’s vast acreage into a theme park & sell off as much of the remaining acreage as possible for condos & industrial parks & etc. (this fate befell 20^th. Century Fox’s Century City lot, & turning most of that immense lot into what became the Alphavillean Century City in West L. A.) ;

   ‡‡ )  “Let us save her [Cinecittà]” — sign made up of individual letters held by nude male Cinecittà workers who were ready-for-their-closeups-signore-demille during the summer of 2012; 

 ‡‡‡ )  “Cinetittàs” — rude pun to describe any woman with cinematic titties

[savecinecitta.org; hyperalllergic.com, 19 sept., 2012; hollywood reporter; beeb news]

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