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Italian postcard. Publicity still for Ragazze d'oggi/Girls of Today (Luigi Zampa, 1955).
Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno, better known as Mike Bongiorno, was born 26 May 1924 in New York and died 8 September 2009 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He was an Italo-American journalist and television host. For the history of Italian television he has been an institution as Italy’s famous quiz master between the 1950s to the 1980s. As such he played himself in various films too. Even if he lived in Italy for most of his life, he kept his American nationality until he turned 79.
Mike Bongiorno was of Italo-American descent, his paternal grandfather being a merchant who emigrated from Mezzojuso in Sicily. While he was a child his parents divorced and his mother took him to her hometown Turin, where he visited college. All his life he remained a fan of Juventus, Turin’s soccer club. During the Second World War he was not mobilised thanks to his American nationality, so he dropped his studies and joined the Italian resistance as go-between the Italian partisans and the Allies in Switzerland . He was captured and escaped execution because of his American passport, but stayed in for six months at the San Vittore prison of Milan, and was then deported German concentration camps. Early 1945 he was liberated even before war ended, thanks to an exchange between war prisoners. Bongiorno went back to New York, but established himself in Italy in 1952, where he became the most popular television host form the earliest days of the medium on, working for the national public broadcasting company RAI, and starting with the programme Arrivi e partenze (1953).
In the mid-1950s Bongiorno acted in various films. First in Luigi Zampa’s comedy Ragazze d'oggi (1955), starring Marisa Allasio. In the same year Bongiorno re-enacted himself in the film Il motive in maschera (dir. Stefano Canzio), based on Bongiorno’s popular homonymous radio show. Next followed a lead in Guido Malatesta’s comedy I milliardari (1956), and a part in the film Il prezzo della gloria, starring Gabriele Ferzetti, directed by newcomer Antonio Musu and shot in the province of Puglia, in South-East Italy. Bongiorno acted in a scene shot at Taranto, where his character has car trouble. In the 1950s Bongiorno was also visible in several ‘fotoromanzi’.
From 1955 to 1959 Bongiorno ran the first Italian television quiz Lascia o raddoppia?, based on the French Quitte ou double ?, which again was based on an American quiz. Buongorno became Italy’s quiz master ‘par excellence’. Italian writer and semiologist Umberto Eco even dedicated a famous essay to him: Fenomenologia di Mike Bongiorno (1963). This also affected Bongiorno’s film acting, who from the 1950s on was regularly visible as quiz master in Totò lascia o raddoppia? (Camillo Mastrocinque 1958) with Totò, Giudizio universale (1961) by Vittorio De Sica and with Vittorio Gassman, Fernandel and Alberto Sordi, C'eravamo tanto amati (1974) by Ettore Scola – in which one of the characters (played by Stefano Satta Flores) is a candidate in Lascia o raddoppia , Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (1982) with Alida Valli and Eccezzziunale… veramente (1982) again with Sandrelli.
After Lascia o raddoppia followed the quizzes Campanile sera (1960), Rischiatutto (1970) and La fiera dei sogni. From 1963 on he also presented the Festival of San Remo for over a decade. In 1979 Buongiorno presented his first show for commercial television: I sogni nel cassetto, produced by Telemilano, which after became Canale 5. His last RAI quiz show was Flash (1980/1982), after which he completely moved over to Mediaset, the television group of Silvio Berlusconi. Afterwards followed Telequiz Bis (1981) Superflash (1982), Pentathlon (1985), Telemike (1987) and La ruota della fortuna (1989). In 2000 he co-presented the animal programme Qua la zampa. For the Retequattro channel he presented two quizzes for youngsters: Genius and Il migliore. Bongiorno was married three times and was rewarded with a doctorate honoris causa at the university IULM of Milan in August 2007.
For decades Mike Bongiorno, who always opened his programmes with his famous « Allegria ! », was known everywhere. Also known were his problems with finding the right quiz papers, his endearing old-fashioned Italian, but also his rages against technicians and candidates during his shows, even in live recordings. His mistakes were proverbial, in particular during La ruota della fortuna, and caused for parody. During one quiz he asked who was this Mr. Paolovi? Meant was Paolo VI (pope Paul VI). Imitation and parody resulted in maliciously changing his « Allegria! » in « Allergia! » (allergy). Bongorno was nicknamed "SuperMike" and "Telemike".
Sources: English, Italian and Fench Wikipedia, IMDB.
Finally done wrenching I think. I recently added the rack and got rid of the gaudy stickers. I like it.
Components include:
Frame: Black 62cm Long Haul Trucker (2011)
Wheels: Mavic A319 with LX hubs (built by Peter White)
Drivetrain: Tiagra front, LX rear, 11-34t cassette, Dura Ace barcons
Crank: Sugino xd triple
Tires: Continental Contact 32mm, but in the winter I run 35mm with studs
Brakes: Tektro Cantilever (love these for 1/4 price of Pauls), Tektro levers
Headset: Velo Orange Grand Cru
Velo Orange 17deg stem
Fenders: SKS
Bars: Nitto Noodle 48cm
Saddle: Brooks B17
Pedals: MKS touring
Light: HD EDC mounted with Two Fish strap, Planet Bike Superflash rear
Rack: Cheap Aluminum
Here is the current version of my cross check and hopefully the final. I've built this up a couple different ways. It is a 62cm Misty Mountain Gray frame and I think the current build is just about the ultimate commuter bike.
Components include:
Wheels: Mavic A319 with LX hubs (built by Peter White)
Drivetrain: Tiagra front, LX rear, 11-34t cassette, Dura Ace barcons
Crank: Suntour Cyclone
Tires: Continental Contact 32mm, but in the winter I run 35mm with studs
Brakes: Tektro Cantilever (love these for 1/4 price of Pauls), Tektro levers
Headset: Ritchey Pro Logic
Velo Orange 17deg stem
Fenders: SKS
Bars: Nitto Noodle 42cm, cloth tape that's shellacked and attached with hemp.
Saddle: Brooks black
Pedals: Old School GT platforms with Retrogression straps
Light: HD EDC mounted with Two Fish strap, Planet Bike Superflash rear
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Bike nerd details:
1982(?) Ciocc Mockba '80 (no serial number) Columbus SL
painted by Litton Cycles, Point Richmond
Shimano 7700 Group (Ultegra 1" threaded headset)
7400 seatpost/stem
Nitto M153 40cm bars
Fizik perforated tape
Phil Wood/Open Pro Ceramic wheels
Panaracer Pasela PT tires
San Marco Regal Girardi ti
Time ATAC XS carbon pedals
Cetma 5-rail rack
Arkel Bug pannier
Magicshines 900 front light
Paul Gino light mount
Superflash blinkie
Arundel saddle bag
Crane Ee-nay bell
Patrick had the idea of a group for a Riv-only commute group, so his rig has to be in there! He also took this photo.
Details:
'03 Curt Built, Dave Altered Custom Rivendell fixed gear commuter. 69" gear with 559X1" Specialized Turbos. Low-ish bars, and I use the drops all the time for headwinds. Honjos, with World's Largest Leather Mudflap, Adam on Carradice Expedition QR mount sans hoop, Flite, Phil, Nitto, TA, MKS RX-1s, Dura Ace, Ultegra, Sun, Revolution, EOS + Spanninga + PB Superflash. The bottle is an Eleven Gear vacuum flask with sippy spout.
When it's -30 deg C + windchill you - can still shift your Shimano Alfine hub long after your Planet Bike Superflash blinky stops working!
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Retroreflective film covers the bike and trailer, as well as the crutch (on the trailer, supporting the amber light) that I was using after my leg was broken in two places from being hit... at night... by a motorist... who said that "I didn't see you".
I was using a:
MiNewt X2 on low on my helmet
MiNewt X2 on flash on my bars
TriNewt on low on my bars
CatEye EL410 on flash on my bars...
and I had 7 taillights on.
I was hit from the front (left cross).
You know it's always been harder to photograph people with darker skin at night on the street with only ambient light.
This has kept those with the majestic melatonin tones relatively safe from my lens when I shoot the street in low light conditions.
That's all changed with my 'techno-pyro on demand electron burst generator'... the off camera flash unit.
Now no one is safe!
Darker complexions in low light are really difficult to properly expose.
If you're using auto focus you'll notice that the camera seems to search longer and harder for focus.
But throw a bazillion photons on the scene all at once and you get it down skippy!
It's like givin' someone a warm hug of light.
This guy was pretty cool about it.
He was the first victim of the 'off camera flash shootout' on Saturday night.
I caught him firing up a stogie and I nailed him.
When he didn't throw at me I took a few more shots and showed them to him.
We talked for a couple of minutes and he got a phone call.
That 'heart shaped spot' on his left cheek under his eye is from dust on my sensor... that shit shows up really good when you tighten up the aperature to use flash.
One day I'll either learn to use photoshop or take my camera in to have the sensor cleaned.
I've been suprised at the positive reaction to using the flash on the street at night.
Instinct told me that there was gonna be some hard feelings when I blew flash in people's faces but I was wrong.
At least so far.
Maybe it's how my demeanor's changed since I started shooting the street.
I've got the benefit and the experience of at least a thousand interactions shooting strangers now.
The biggest thing about using the off camera flash is that you gotta hold it up at arms length away.
It's hard to explain... but holding that flash unit up in the dark like that certainly causes people to react.
Most of them follow the movement of my hand with their eyes... almost all of them really... and I can use that to some benefit I'm sure.
Saying something to them usually brings their eyes back towards the lens... and there's a transition from looking at the flash unit to when they 'come back to the camera' that rocks.
I'm looking forward to learning more about this method of 'street lighting' and sharing it with you guys.
The Cross-Check; In full "commuter dress" (yes, I have to bring a lot of crap back and forth) with both Acorn bags mounted as well as my Arkel Dolphin panniers. Yup, that's three PB Superflash's mounted back there. I usually run the center on solid and the outside ones on flashing. I've also got a Light & Motion Stella up front to light the way.