lallygagger
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Just posting this to introduce myself to the Audioshark community. I registered yesterday. I don't often participate in forum discussions. I usually just read and learn a lot. But now I have somethings I want to share, so here I am.
I am originally from San Francisco, but have lived in several places in the USA. I now live in Italy, in the small Tuscan hill town of Cortona.
If you have seen the film UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN with Diane Lane, then you have seen some of Cortona because the movie is about an American woman who came to Cortona on a vacation and ended up buying a house here.
If you have seen the movie, or if you do in the future, please know that there is no fountain in any piazza in Cortona. The fountain was built out of fibre glass by the film crew... most likely because in the imaginations of most Americans a small town in Italy just has to have a fountain in it somewhere.
I must admit that it did look very authentic and if you didn't see all the electrical cords and hoses running to it, it looked real even standing up close to it.
The statue, which looked real in the film, did not look real in person. It was made out of some kind of foam rubber or styrofoam and it was the subject of some controversy. When it was first put in place, my understanding is that some of the Cortornans complained that it was too well endowed. Evidently size does matter, so the film people had to bring in a ''surgeon'' to perform a penectomy (does that word even exist?) and the statues love life was somewhat shortened. After that no more complaints about size were heard.
So hello to everyone. I am glad to be here,
Peter
I am originally from San Francisco, but have lived in several places in the USA. I now live in Italy, in the small Tuscan hill town of Cortona.
If you have seen the film UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN with Diane Lane, then you have seen some of Cortona because the movie is about an American woman who came to Cortona on a vacation and ended up buying a house here.
If you have seen the movie, or if you do in the future, please know that there is no fountain in any piazza in Cortona. The fountain was built out of fibre glass by the film crew... most likely because in the imaginations of most Americans a small town in Italy just has to have a fountain in it somewhere.
I must admit that it did look very authentic and if you didn't see all the electrical cords and hoses running to it, it looked real even standing up close to it.
The statue, which looked real in the film, did not look real in person. It was made out of some kind of foam rubber or styrofoam and it was the subject of some controversy. When it was first put in place, my understanding is that some of the Cortornans complained that it was too well endowed. Evidently size does matter, so the film people had to bring in a ''surgeon'' to perform a penectomy (does that word even exist?) and the statues love life was somewhat shortened. After that no more complaints about size were heard.
So hello to everyone. I am glad to be here,
Peter
