WTI Magazine #35    2014 June, 18
Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:

Taormina, in Sicily, tells a story about a successful emigration from Italy. The festival, now in its 60th edition, presents the latest film by Clint Eastwood (84 years and 33 films in front of and behind the camera): Jersey Boys brings back a legend of the 60s, the Four Seasons band, headed by Frank "Frankie" Valli, alias Francis Stephen Castelluccio. 

On the occasion of his 80 years, celebrated on 3 May, the second-generation Italian American has become famous thanks to his falsetto, shown on stage as the front man of a successful band, at least until the "global" arrival of The Beatles.

Based on a successful Broadway show, Jersey Boys is almost a musical, because it tells the story of a group of suburban teenagers whose unexpected destiny is to achieve a resounding success, both at home and in the rest of the world. The songs, of course, are the beating heart of Eastwood's films, who is older than its protagonist: but it is not an all-song script.

It is a journey into the heart of music, the one of the period that saw the success of widespread famous songs such as "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk like a Man", "Rag Doll", "Bye Bye Baby", "Beggin'" and "Let's hang On". With these songs the New Jersey Italian Americans Castelluccio, Tommy DeVito, Nicholas Macioci and Bob Gaudio will conquer the international radio stations: such a big success to let them create their own stage names, to be recognizable on the road to the widest possible audience.

Now another new audience will be able to listen to those hits, thanks to the talent as director of the evergreen Clint. The one with and without the cowboy hat.