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What's your feeling about Italy and Italian people and how much you and your children feel near Italian culture?

I have spent much time in Italy over the years, and made a few films there. It's a very beautiful country. In fact, Kristina and I were in Rome just two weekends back. We had the most fantastic meal we've ever had in an airport, in Rome, before we caught our flight home. I'm now dieting!”

From Paola real name Con affetto

In your opinion, what has been the most beneficial Project that UNICEF has achieved for a community (or country) that you have either witnessed the benefits of or been a part of making them happen?

There are so many terrific projects and campaigns that UNICEF is involved with. However, recently we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the 'Change For Good' campaign, with British Airways, through which £17 million has been raised from spare change in people's pockets. I was extremely proud to be at Heathrow for the anniversary celebrations. Earlier in the year Kristina and I were in Mexico City where we witnessed, first hand, some of the benefits the campaign has brought about for children there. It is a very positive campaign, having a very positive impact."

From nhv007 real name Noel


I know you're a gourmet and I suppose you like French cooking. A friend of mine :English is always teasing me about frog legs' recipe.

Have you already eat this recipe and do you like it? I think he never laughed at me because this English friend admire you ever since few years. Thank you very much for your answer and excuse my bad English.

I lived in the South Of France for part of the year, so yes, I do get to enjoy French food. I have tasted frong's legs, though I can't say it's a dish I'd go mad for - curried, fried, boiled or otherwise.

Domino


It's for you your best partner in a movie or serie, and do you have a funny anecdote to tell.

I don't have a favourite as such, as everyone I've worked with has been fun. Perhaps Tony Curtis (as Danny Wilde in The Persuaders) was one of the more larger than life ones though. We spent over a year together on the series, and I remember one day we had a journalist on set, interviewing Tony, but for some reason seemed to upset him. He walked away from the interview and said to me "feed 'em fish". I'm not quite sure, to this day, what it means but it's stuck with me.

From cdmoore1978 real name CHRIS THE GOD

Looking back on your career regarding your expectations do you feel you´ve succeeded as an actor? And what expectations do you have for the future?

I never had any expectations as an actor. In fact, I've never really acted. I have a card which says I'm an actor though, and I do admit to once dreaming of being Stewart Granger ... I have been very lucky though, and the one thing success and celebrity has enabled me to do, which I'm particularly proud about, is work for UNICEF. Whilst that takes up much of my time nowadays, I always say if I can have a bit of fun, work with nice people and good scripts, then I will continue acting when time allows!

 

I also admire Your dedication to UNICEF. It´s wonderful. It must be so hard to see all the suffering - how has it affected You, and has it changed You in any ways? And how do You manage to cope with it?

I once used to worry, when on a big film, about what we might be having for lunch, or if my shirts were ironed properly and such like. Silly, trivial things. UNICEF has opened my eyes to the important things in life. I don't think one can ever cope with seeing the suffering in the world, and that's why I try to get involved with as many field trips and campaigns as possible - to physically get involved and try and make a little difference.

It has made me a humble and very grateful person.

An interesting Footnote:

Taken from Tony Curtis’s autobiography. Talking of his time in the navy when he was very young.


“In a lot of ways that’s what the navy was to me, shocking, surging energetic questioning F**cked up. It was about a human being who was looking for some answers. I still don’t know any, I’m just looking. But in the navy, everybody knew exactly where he stood right from the beginning, and if anybody didn’t like it F**ck em and feed them fish. That term came out of the navy. Some crews arrived for food, and an officer on an inspection told the chef “You got to make them some decent food. We need steaks, potatoes, that kind of thing. And this chef listened to him quietly and then said “ F**ck em and feed them fish. That was my bumper sticker for life."

Tony Curtis

PS We will tell him!

The information why Tony Curtis said F**k them and feed them fish is taken from Tony Curtis’s autobiography by Barry Paris from 1994.
A exceptional biography offering an extremely honest insight from the man himself. Telling of his vastly changing life style from his early days on the poor streets of the Bronx New York, to the high life as a young Hollywood star.

Alan Davidson

 

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