- Santo Cilauro
Alias = Zladko "Zlad!" VladcikSanto Cilauro (born in 1962 in
Melbourne ,Australia ) is anAustralia ntelevision andfeature film producer,screenwriter and cameraman.He is a currently a member of the Working Dog production company which created the TV shows
The Panel andThank God You're Here . Working Dog was also behind The Castle andThe Dish .He played weatherman Geoffrey Salter on "Frontline" (1994–97), Stix on
Funky Squad (1995), and IT technician Griffin on theShaun Micallef sitcom "Welcher & Welcher " (2003). Cilauro was, withRob Sitch andTom Gleisner , co-author of the Jetlag Travel Guides toMolvanîa ,Phaic Tăn andSan 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 (nowTriple 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 andSynthpop . 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, andmeta-reference s 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 forMountain 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]
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