If you don't know who they are, shut up !

[Latimer]

Have you heard of Joe Dallesandro?

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I saw "Flesh" when I was a Freshmen in college, 25 years or so after it was made. I don't recall a lot about it, except that I was fascinated. The plot may have been idiotic and the characters idiots, but I found it all oddly compelling on screen, more so than I would have in real life, where I would have quickly grown bored with these characters and their lives. Not sure how I'd react today, but at the time I enjoyed being a tourist. I should add that I this movie introduced me to the idea of hustling and/or stirred in me the desire to hustle. Can't remember which.

 

[NotHardUp1]

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Who can identify this superstar?
No goddamn googling!

I see I'm technically too late to guess, but it was either going to be Clara Bow, or after your 2nd hint, Marilyn Manson.

Sorry to miss the game. I've been dealing with a roof-ful of Mexicans all day.

 

[Peloso]

He was the star of my masturbation sessions for many years

Mine too.

 

[cabinfever]

Mine too.

I used his scene in Andy Warhol's Dracula alot when he was "saving" the girl from her virginity and Dracula

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I Googled "Christian Rinaldo" and all that came up was Cristiano Ronaldo. I know who he is. I read once that his father named him Ronaldo after Ronald Reagan.

Rinaldo is the hero of the epic poem 'Gerusalemme liberata' by Torquato Tasso published in 1581, a mythical chronicle of the First Crusade in which Christian knights battle Muslims in order to conquer the city of Jerusalem. Handel's opera, 'Rinaldo' is loosely based on it.

This rendition of "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Let me cry) is from the excellent French film about the legendary Italian castrato, 'Farinelli', played here by the mesmerizing and beautiful actor, Stefano Dionisi. His voice in the scene was a digital amalgam of both a male and a female voice.

Oh, I'm totally triggered ...

I have a bug up my ass about "Lascia ch'io pianga," and I'm just barely keeping myself from going on my rant about it. (The few people I know who'd understand what I was talking about have heard it already.)

Since some folks were talking about it in YouTube comments the other day, I'll say this: the makers of Farinelli picked the wrong soprano and countertenor to synthesize into a castrato voice, dammit.

Here's another Handel aria for ya:

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I doubt many of us have ever seen any of the Warhol/Morrissey movies, let alone heard of them or of his troop of 'actors' and hangers on who appeared in them.

I've seen Flesh and Trash. Stupid movies, but it was nice to see Joe Dallesandro hard, however briefly.

 

[Peloso]

^ They were supposed to be stupid! Warhol's whole scene was a put-on, which was the genius of it.

I used his scene in Andy Warhol's Dracula alot when he was "saving" the girl from her virginity and Dracula

The moment when his dick got hard in Flesh remains a template of erotic imagery for me. It's seared into my consciousness.

 

[Peloso]

Sorry to miss the game. I've been dealing with a roof-ful of Mexicans all day.

Abbott and Ducey are just dumping them on people's roofs now?

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's the roofing crew my local company sent to do the job. I'm getting a new roof, new fascia, and gutters.

Just got through taking them BBQ for lunch. When I heard they ate at Hardee's yesterday, I figured I needed to up my game. They seemed to like it.