28: Glamour

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast

In 2007, Italian artist Graziano Cecchini poured red dye into the Trevi Fountain to protest the Rome Film Festival. "You wanted just a red carpet", he said. "We want a city entirely in vermilion. We who are vulnerable, old, ill, students, workers, we come with vermilion to colour your grayness." Escapism, tourism, power, vanity, royalty, memory, sex, romance - and water running blood-red. This week, a deep dive into the extended universe of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain, spinning off from THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954) and Sinatra's hit title song. A three-and-a-half-hour odyssey recorded while simultanously live-commentating the coronation of King Charles III and monitoring a live webcam of the Trevi Fountain, spanning 10 films released over 56 years and centuries of history... it could only be an episode of SUDDENLY. Watch the live webcam of the Trevi Fountain here. Discussed in this episode: * Roman Holiday (1953) * Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) * La Dolce Vita (1960) * The Pleasure Seekers (1964) * Three Coins in the Fountain (1970) (TV pilot filmed 1966, aired once in 1970 and now lost media. Watch the surviving 76-second clip here. We may be able to obtain this in full in the near future. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode!) * Coins in the Fountain (1990) (Out of print TV movie. Watch the mysterious extremely low-quality YouTube upload here.) * Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998) * When in Rome (2002) Olsen Twins * The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) * 3oh3 ft. Katy Perry "Starstrukk" music video (2009) * When in Rome (2010) Kristen Bell * Pamela Krist - Memory and the Trevi Fountain: Flows of Political Power in Media Performance (2019)

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