http://poptarticus.com/2005/sicilia/palermo-pazzo/ Shannon's Super Sexy Blog. Music. Travel. Randomness. And a Lot of Wine. Sat, 19 May 2012 01:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://poptarticus.com/2005/sicilia/palermo-pazzo/#comment-126 Alice Twain Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:52:07 +0000 http://poptarticus.com/wordpress/?p=143#comment-126 The "mi manda something or something else" is probably "Mi manda Picone", which is the title of a lovely film by Nanni Loi. It is the story of this woman whose husband (Picone himself) suicides himself in protest for being unemployed. Here the tragedy ends (we are about five minutes into the film) because the woman meets a guy who makes a living helping the people at the comune offices in Naples. This guy, who is interpreted by Giancarlo Giannini decides to help her and bit by bit discovers that Picone was actually into lots of odd trafficks. He has this address book of Picone, and visits each person in that address book, and as soon as the name of Picone comes out (Whence the title: I am sent by Picone) these people all give him some money... The “mi manda something or something else” is probably “Mi manda Picone”, which is the title of a lovely film by Nanni Loi. It is the story of this woman whose husband (Picone himself) suicides himself in protest for being unemployed. Here the tragedy ends (we are about five minutes into the film) because the woman meets a guy who makes a living helping the people at the comune offices in Naples. This guy, who is interpreted by Giancarlo Giannini decides to help her and bit by bit discovers that Picone was actually into lots of odd trafficks. He has this address book of Picone, and visits each person in that address book, and as soon as the name of Picone comes out (Whence the title: I am sent by Picone) these people all give him some money…

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