The "cool" of the regime

The very fact that he was born gay in a small town in the deep South, during the height of Fascism, and in the Storace household, choosing as his mother the unsuspecting daughter of the Duce's "very virile" right-hand man, and then urinating in his arms at the tender age of one, speaks volumes. Then, in the 50s, a young man of great promise, he arrived in Rome. With his unconventional lifestyle and his book, Roma capitolina, about "excellent" homosexuality in Rome, which was immediately confiscated, he became a "character" and was called by Fellini to play himself in the film La Dolce Vita.

Then suddenly in 81, after having worked as a hard-hitting journalist, having continued to write books and act in films, tired of this role, he flies to Casablanca, and becomes Maria Gioacchina, thus confirming his innate tendency to provoke and mock life and himself.