Santo Cilauro
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Santo Cilauro (born in 1962 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian television and feature film producer and screenwriter.
He is a currently a member of the Working Dog production company which created the TV shows The Panel and Thank God You're Here. Working Dog was also behind The Castle and The Dish.
He played weatherman Geoffrey Salter on Frontline (1994–97), Stix on Funky Squad (1995), and IT technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom Welcher & Welcher (2003). Cilauro was, with Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner, co-author of the Jetlag Travel Guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro. He also created the popular internet character Zladko Vladcik. As a passionate Collingwood supporter, he often name-dropped the club in his sketches; he recently wrote a chapter of the Collingwood supporter's book, "The Barrackers Are Shouting".
In the mid to late 1980s Santo was part of The D-Generation (D-Gen) Breakfast show on Eon FM (now Triple M Melbourne). Characters played were "Wayne from St Albans" and the original wog hoon, he of the midnight orange Monaro "Gino Tagliatoni".
He was one of the regular cast of The Late Show in 1992 and 1993.
Other credits include:
- Thank God You're Here (TV series) (2006-), Executive Producer, Performer
- The Dish (2000), Producer, Screenwriter
- The Castle (1997), Screenwriter
- A River Somewhere
- Johnny Swank
Cilauro is a noted supporter and active participant of charities. Athletes as Role Models Tour (ARMTour) is an example where he organised a group of Australian sports people and celebrities to travel to remote communities as a way of promoting education and healthy lifestyles to Australia's indigenous youth.
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[edit] Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik
Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik is a fictional character of the equally fictional nation of Molvanîa. Over time, he has become a kind of Internet phenomenon.
[edit] Music
Zlad! is a musician from Molvanîa. He became popular as he won the "Molvanian-Polonia Idol" contest in the year 2002 in controverse circumstances. His opponent who has gotten also to the final-round had to opt out of the show due to bad condition of his throat as a result of a member of the jury who wanted to strangle him. Later Zlad! published his mega hit "Juust Az I Amm", which hold on in the "Rhythm & Polka" charts two weeks long. After that he founded the band "Wow!", which he had left during one of the first concerts.
[edit] Elektronik Supersonik
"Elektronik Supersonik" is itself a kitschy, over-the-top combination of Polock disco and Synthpop. Zlad! is featured in a mullet, bushy moustache, and silver spacesuit. His lyrics are often in spoken word or badly sung, not to mention full of grammatical errors, reversed semantic units, and meta-references to thick Slavic accents. For example the song opens with: "Hey baby, wake up from your asleep. We have arrived onto the future and the whole world is become elektronik, supersonik." It was featured in a recent ad campaign for Mountain Dew MDX. He is supported by a female keyboard-guitarist and background vocals with pink hair.
According to the Molvania website [1], Zlad! was to perform his hit single at the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, but he was arrested at Atatürk Airport for possessing recreational drugs, and was immediately deported, disqualifying the tiny Eastern European republic of Molvania from the song contest.
[edit] I Am The Anti-Pope
For the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, Ukraine, Zlad! was squashed when his entry "I Am The Anti-Pope" was disqualified due to the satanic nature of its content. Zlad! has since defended the song as "a light-hearted ballad recounting the short reign of little-known Beelzebub the First", who apparently was the first Pope to be "crucifixed at the stake". The song was considerably less popular than its predecessor. At the end of the song is a sentence in reverse. When playing back you hear the hidden message: "Kneel before Zladko the goat!"
[edit] External links
- Santo Cilauro on IMDB
- Vodafone lifts indigenous kids up to the stars Cilauro's work with ARMTour
- "Electronik Supersonik" (video and MP3 audio)
- "I Am The Anti-Pope" (video and MP3 audio)
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