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...Hollywood, when it brought Fistful to the States, still wanted moviegoers to think the Italian Westerns were American, though Eastwood was the only Yank on the set. So Clint's costar, Gian Maria Volonte, is called Johnny Wels on the U.S. credits; composer Ennio Morricone is Dan Savio, cinematographer Massimo Dallamano is Jack Dalmas. In some versions, Leone was called Bob Robertson. The American edition bore no screenplay credit, and of course no reference to the original literary source...
...which Clint got $15,000, Fistful made the careers of Eastwood, Leone and Morricone. It created a legend around the Man With No Name - a publicist's canny invention, since the Eastwood character always had one (Joe, Mongo, Blondie). And it triggered literally hundreds of Westerns from an Italian movie industry that had already shown itself expert at imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror films made into even more erotic thrillers. For ordinary moviegoers of the 60s, the phrase "Italian films...
...Among the prime directors of Italian Westerns (most of them shot in Spain, by the way) was Sergio Corbucci, who vaulted to prominence with the 1966 Django. It was The image of star Franco Nero coming into town not on horseback but on foot, dragging a coffin, was an instant sensation that cued more than 50 Django films, all unrelated to the original. Its theme song, by composer Luis Bacalov, remains one of those melodies that worms its way into a listener's brain and, as I can testify, can't be extracted for weeks. The Corbucci film also inspired...
...YORK CITY Just Cavalli Check out Roberto Cavalli's diffusion line at his new Fifth Avenue flagship, where the Italian designer's sexy fare can be had for a more affordable price...
...Vuitton to Reed Krakoff at Coach, the name behind the bag, not on it, is becoming more and more familiar to shoppers. The most recent addition to this crowd is burgeoning American fashion star Derek Lam, who in December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand Tod's. His job? To put a fresh, modern spin on the Tod's signatures and up the ante with ready-to-wear. For fall, Lam has seized the brand's signature driving shoe and revamped it in a sleeker design in stylish jewel-tone satins. Coinciding...