Len801 wrote:
> Claudio may be Italian-born, but I have only seen him in US
> productions (IAFD lists about 300 movies and the majority of
> them are US titles).
> He may have appeared in some Euro productions (like the 3-part
> DER CLAN) by I think the majority of his porn work has been in
> US movies.
> I never regarded Claudio as an Italian performer in the
> strictest sense of the word.
> I must beg absolute ignorance as to whether Claudio has had any
> substantial porn work in Italian movies, and whether he is
> regarded there as a native son in the same vein as Rocco
> Siffredi or Omar Galanti.
The old Italian magazine 'VideoImpulse' (a sort of local AVN) reported the story of Claudio and his (former?) wife Tiziana aka Gina Rome about 15 years ago.
They were a couple from Brescia, Lombardy, a mid sized town in the deep North of Italy that decided to move to California after a family business they owned in their hometown went bad. That was in the early 90s, when Claudio was about 40 and her wife about 10 years younger.
Once in the LA suburbs they struggled to find good jobs until somebody proposed them to shoot some amateur porn as a couple and after that proposals to shoot more porn started flocking, I suppose because of Gina/Tiziana good look not thanks to his attractiveness. They soon decided that once they were in the dance, they would have gone rockn'n'roll all the way, shooting with partners other than themselves.
The VideoImpulse piece stated also that they were much more involved in the industry than what the casual viewer could infer, since they did a lot of pre and post production stuff, too. Claudio specifically stated that he learned the art of editing and he earned his living mainly through that job, while not disdaining to appear in front of the camera mainly for the young poon. Tiziana on the other hand said that apart from her regular porn appearances she did quite a lot of fluffing at mass events like gangbangs. She also did a few shoots in Italy when she occasionally came back to visit friends and relatives.
They also specified that back in the days of that interview (I'm talking late 90s here) they were still Italian citizens and working with a green card, though probably by now they have become full fledged Americans.
Anyway your comparison with Rocco still stands, in that the mighty Mr. Siffredi started his career in France not in Italy, he shot mainly in France (and in Germany) during the 80s and then once he married Rosa he moved to Budapest. I would say that probably only between 1 and 3% of Rocco scenes had been shot in Italy.
Omar Galanti OTOH started out with a long practice in amateur spaghetti porn, but that was much later on.
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Gina Rome, attractive?
Hmmmmmm......... well, she's marginally prettier than her husband : -)
Hmmmmmm......... well, she's marginally prettier than her husband : -)
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jj wrote:
> Gina Rome, attractive?
> Hmmmmmm......... well, she's marginally prettier than her
> husband : -)
Back when she started she had a body type that I'm quite fond of, tall, slender, athletic and I also liked her facelines. For me her only real drawback were her teeth.
> Gina Rome, attractive?
> Hmmmmmm......... well, she's marginally prettier than her
> husband : -)
Back when she started she had a body type that I'm quite fond of, tall, slender, athletic and I also liked her facelines. For me her only real drawback were her teeth.
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I had the opportunity to see Gina Rome (and Claudio) recently in the 3-part DER CLAN, but I was unaware of her romantic relationship with Claudio [Note: they did not have any sex scene together]. In any event I found her rather plain. Now I need no longer wonder why she was in those movies.
I notice IAFD shows her active until 2009, and Gina and Claudio also appeared in same scene of Momma Knows Best 8 (2009,Red Light District). I would suppose that they were still a "couple" until then.
By the way soljARis, the Italian magazine Video Impulse ceased publication a decade ago around 2003, and for a brief time had a forum web site (opened in 2001), until it was changed to Superzeta.it which is still running and in which I regularly post.
I notice IAFD shows her active until 2009, and Gina and Claudio also appeared in same scene of Momma Knows Best 8 (2009,Red Light District). I would suppose that they were still a "couple" until then.
By the way soljARis, the Italian magazine Video Impulse ceased publication a decade ago around 2003, and for a brief time had a forum web site (opened in 2001), until it was changed to Superzeta.it which is still running and in which I regularly post.
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Len801 wrote:
> By the way soljARis, the Italian magazine Video Impulse
> ceased publication a decade ago around 2003, and for a brief
> time had a forum web site (opened in 2001), until it was
> changed to Superzeta.it which is still running and in which I
> regularly post.
I know all of this. I posted a bit on Superzeta back when it wasn't the present days mammoth. But then all the flaming and the rules they enforced to prevent it to go completely berzerk made me shy away from that forum.
Nowadays I lurk there from time to time, but I'm not going to follow it regularly or to post there. Too big (with a lot of non-movies related stuff) and to conflictual for my taste.
> By the way soljARis, the Italian magazine Video Impulse
> ceased publication a decade ago around 2003, and for a brief
> time had a forum web site (opened in 2001), until it was
> changed to Superzeta.it which is still running and in which I
> regularly post.
I know all of this. I posted a bit on Superzeta back when it wasn't the present days mammoth. But then all the flaming and the rules they enforced to prevent it to go completely berzerk made me shy away from that forum.
Nowadays I lurk there from time to time, but I'm not going to follow it regularly or to post there. Too big (with a lot of non-movies related stuff) and to conflictual for my taste.