Santo Cilauro

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Name = Santo Cilauro

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Alias = Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik

Santo Cilauro (born in 1962 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian television and feature film producer, screenwriter and cameraman.

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 organized 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.

Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik

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Elektronik Supersonik

"Elektronik Supersonik" is itself a kitschy, over-the-top combination of Polock disco and Synthpop. Zlad! is featured in a mullet, bushy mustache, and silver spacesuit and is supported by a female keyboard-guitarist and background vocalist with pink hair. 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.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162274/ Santo Cilauro on IMDB]
* [http://www.vodafone.com/article_with_thumbnail/0,3038,OPCO%253D40004%2526CATEGORY_ID%253D207%2526MT_ID%253Dpr%2526LANGUAGE_ID%253D0%2526CONTENT_ID%253D272510,00.html Vodafone lifts indigenous kids up to the stars] Cilauro's work with ARMTour
* [http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/dvds/santo-cilauro-unedited-int.htm Interview : Web Wombat DVD Channel]