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Per carità. La scelta del nickname non viene dal fatto che Straker fosse il "Comandante", ma da alcune incredibili analogie tra la vita dell'attore che lo interpretò e la mia. E' comunque mia abitudine rispondere a tutti coloro che mi scrivono. Si tratta di educazione e, soprattutto, è segno di rispetto nei confronti dell'interlocutore.
Faccio sovente un'eccezione: di solito non replico ai messaggi dei debunkers. Faccio come se non esistessero. In effetti non ci si preoccupa mai dei ratti che affolano le fogne, seppure siano in gran numero. ;-)
Ma vediamo queste analogie:
Ed | Rosario |
Ed Bishop (born George Victor Bishop 11 June 1932, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, USA, died morning of 8 June 2005, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England), was an American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain. Early lifeBishop served in the US Army from 1952 to 1954, working as a disk jockey with the Armed Forces Radio at St. Johns in Newfoundland. After graduating in Theatre Arts from Boston University, he won a Fulbright Scholarship to study for two years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1959 and almost immediately found work in the British theatre and film industries. He adopted the first name "Edward" at this time for professional reasons. His first Broadway stage performance was in David Merrick's production of The Rehearsal in 1962, though he returned to Britain in 1964. CareerBishop is best known for his television roles working for producer Gerry Anderson, most notably his performance as Commander Ed Straker in the science fiction series, UFO, which was produced in 1969-1970 and broadcast during 1970-1971. After the British production was completed, the series was dubbed into languages such as French, German and Italian for sale in continental Europe. Bishop also provided the voice of Captain Blue for Anderson's Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Both series have become cult favorites. In UFO, he dyed his dark hair blond for the role of Straker, though he eventually started wearing a blond wig instead. Bishop kept one of the wigs he wore in UFO as a souvenir and was also given the Certina wristwatch he wore on the show, and before his death, said that he planned to pass it on to his eldest grandson.[1] Bishop was the only cast member of UFO to appear in every episode of that series. Bishop made his film acting debut in a small role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita (as an ambulance driver). He had small roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever, plus a cameo scene in The Bedford Incident. Some of his other better known films include Saturn 3, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Whoops Apocalypse (he also appeared in the TV series version), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (where he played the Captain of the Aries 1B space-station-to-moon shuttle, in a role which initially featured dialogue: the dialogue was later cut from his scenes). In 1963 he played an American astronaut going to the moon in the movie The Mouse on the Moon. Bishop also provided vocal work for the animated version of Star Trek and for Full Fathom Five, a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions. On radio, in 1977-78 he played the private eye Philip Marlowe in six adaptations of Raymond Chandler's stories, the last of them, Farewell, My Lovely, produced almost a decade after the others, as the rights had previously been unavailable. Bishop continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. Bishop and fellow Anderson-actor Shane Rimmer often joked about how often their professional paths crossed and terms themselves "Rent-a yank". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as USN sailors in The Bedford Incident. In 1989 Bishop was reunited with former Gerry Anderson actors Shane Rimmer and Matt Zimmerman in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet. Bishop and Rimmer toured together in live stage shows including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s and they also appeared in the BBC drama/documentary Hiroshima, one of Bishop's last TV projects. Personal lifeHe was also politically active, participating in the March 2004 British protest against the Iraq war. Bishop had already showed his disapproval of the military-industrial complex some years earlier, in a notable act of political theatre: in 1993 he gatecrashed an arms-trade fair held in Aldershot, Hampshire whilst dressed to resemble Augusto Pinochet[2]. During the Aldershot protest he met photographer Jane Skinner, who would later become his third wife. His widow requested that instead of sending flowers to Bishop's funeral, donations should instead be made to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. Ed Bishop was married three times:
Bishop died five days after the death of one of his UFO co-stars, Michael Billington. Bishop succumbed to a chest infection contracted while undergoing treatment for leukaemia.[3] He lies buried in the churchyard of the Parish Church of Saint Lawrence in Napton, Warwickshire. His grey sandstone tombstone has a peace symbol prominently engraved on it. Its design is very similar to the one situated two metres on the right, which marks the grave of his son Daniel (16 May 1967 - 18 January 1988), who was killed in a car accident in Cumbria. Bishop's epitaph reads: From This Valley They Say You Are Going. We Shall Miss Your Bright Eyes And Your Smile. His life and work was honoured at the British Academy Television Awards in May 2006. He is survived by his widow and three daughters from his second marriage: Georgina, Jessica and Serina. | Rosario Marcianò, nato a Saviano (NA) il 19.03.1961, residente a Sanremo (IM). Nel 1981 interrompe gli studi superiori con un diploma di geometra. Per un certo lasso di tempo si dedica ad attività professionali e solo successivamente, nel 1989, si laurea in architettura, con la votazione di 110 e lode, presentando una tesi sulla realizzazione di strutture antisismiche secondo una metodologia in seguito adottata per prima nell'edilizia nipponica. Ha insegnato, per diversi anni, chimica, disegno tecnico e tecnologia delle costruzioni in alcune scuole private ed ha collaborato con architetti ed ingegneri alla progettazione di ville e di strutture pubbliche.
Di rilievo il suo impegno nella lotta contro gli avvelenatori e coloro che li coprono. "Mi posso ritenere fortunato, perché lavoro per passione e non per necessità" . |
Neanche impegnandomi al massimo riuscirei a scrivere un cotale mare di puttanate nel mio cv.
ReplyDeleteProprio due " vite parallele ": da una parte un attore di successo (anche se non strepitoso), dall'altra un fallito in tutto ciò che ha intrapreso...
ReplyDeleteProbabilmente il rosy dai bei capelli si riferiva al personaggio.
ReplyDeleteQualcuno gli dica che E' UN PERSONAGGIO DI FANTASIA!!!
Un ricordo per Bishop.
Saluti
Michele
... alcune incredibili analogie tra la vita dell'attore che lo interpretò e la mia.
ReplyDeleteMah... a me sembra che una volta tanto Straker abbia detto una cosa giusta.
Infatti le analogie sono tanto incredibili che nessuno ci crede.
mc
Ecco le ANALogie:
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(in tempi non sospetti)
Rosario, ma va a farti uno shampo, vai (ah già, non puoi, allora PUPPA)
:)))))))))) .... bellissimo il blog di Hedges, grande la serie UFO.
ReplyDeleteahahh LOL
ReplyDeletemi fa venire in mente la sigla di "attenti a quei due" però stavolta con un poveraccio a destra e IL GRANDE Ed Bishop a sinistra
dopo aver letto i curriculum guardate
http://tinyurl.com/ybkqw76
(i debunkers) Faccio come se non esistessero.
ReplyDeleteAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Questa è da mettere in lista per il Perlone 2010.
Ross (Tiger) Marciano, fai proprio ridere!!!
Nom riesco a smettere di ridere!!!!
ReplyDelete"In effetti non ci si preoccupa mai dei ratti che affolano le fogne, seppure siano in gran numero"
ReplyDeleteContinua a rosicare, rosy dalla folta chioma e dal pelo lucido:
a lui andrebbero bene pure dei ratti, se fossero in gran numero, ma ormai a parte i fake che si è inventato a seguirlo sono rimasti 3!
Rosica, rosica... al posto dei ratti e in compagnia del fratellone.
Saluti
MarcoB