thurs., 20 sept., 2012: occupy cinecittà, i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

ITALIAN: “Cinecittà occupata” ‡
ITALIAN: “Salvia mola.” ‡‡

   ‡ )   “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 20th. 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;

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

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