More thrilling Malta Taghna Lkoll appointments by Culture Vulture ‘Hose’ Herrera
This comes to you hot from the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts website, complete with authentic typo and redundant commas left uncorrected for days or weeks:
The recently appointed members of the Malta Council for Cutlure & the Arts are:
Albert Marshall (Chairman),
Dr. Paul Cachia (Vice Chairman),
Frederick Testa,
Nicholas Depiro,
Dominic Galea,
Caroline Tonna,
Jackie Scott and
Joe Micallef
Albert Marshall is a theatrical poseur and Commie 1970s reject of low intelligence, who returned from life in the Australian sticks to take over PBS/TVM/Radio Malta when Sant became prime minister in 1996. He has now popped out of the woodwork again, looking like somebody’s escaped garden gnome, to burrow his way back into PBS as deputy chairman. His wife, last seen on Maltese television in the 1970s, up a ladder in a short skirt while an actor playing a priest took a peep at her knickers (those were the anti-clerical Golden Years), starred in Labour’s Malta Taghna Lkoll campaign video, dressed this time like an elderly headmistress and telling us that she believes in Joseph because Joseph believes in us.
Frederick Testa calls himself an actor but despite being single and childless all his life, has never left Malta to make a career in the field, preferring instead to stick to amateur theatricals on an island 17 miles by nine. He is 60, but achieved fame for the first time at the beginning of this year, when he featured heavily on Labour electoral billboards throughout the island, on other Labour campaign collateral, and giving testimonials for Labour under its various tents and igloos. He has been put on the public-sector payroll with a salary of Eur2,300 a month, as a ‘television drama’ consultant to PBS/TVM.
Nicholas Depiro is now swimming with The High Society and busy currying favour with the incoming regime, a long historical tradition practised by many Maltese families over the centuries and of which he has no reason to be embarrassed. His latest publication, Ladies in Lace, could be more accurately described as Laburisti in Lace and features some rather fascinating choices, like Marlene Mizzi (who he would have sniffed at as decidedly and unequivocally common, were he not bending over backwards to be democratic) and her daughter, the former spreadeagled on the four-poster bed in his Valletta home with the latter standing behind her, like the opening scene of a low-budget 1970s British porn film, swathed in lace that definitely did not come from the racks at her hole-in-the-wall Rabat polyester cat-sjut shop.
Caroline Tonna used to own and edit a women’s magazine called ‘Elegance’ back in the 1980s when I knew her. She comes from a long and distinguished line of Zejtun-area Mintoffians and her father was quite in with the late and unlamented Lorry Sant. She was married to another staunch Mintoffian, the accountant Brian Tonna, managing partner at Nexia BT.
Jackie Scott is Jackie Mercieca, star and host of Labour TV talk-shows, but ‘cunningly’ disguised with her married name (she is Mrs Matthew Scott). She is a diehard Mintoffian and when the flea-infested old rat died last August, she behaved on Facebook as if she were mourning a meld of John Keats and Che Guevara, rather than a hideous and psychopathic poison dwarf of inferior intelligence.
I haven’t a clue who Dominic Galea, Joe Micallef and Paul Cachia are, and something tells me I might not want to know, either.
Jackie Scott interviewing Labour guru Alfred Mifsud on the Labour Party’s television station
Jackie Scott ‘interviewing’ Labour leader Joseph Muscat at a Labour Party electoral campaign event this past winter.
Frederick Testa at the Labour Party’s so-called ‘Switcher’ event at the Bay arena during the electoral campaign, telling us how great Labour is – as though anybody should give a damn about the opinion of one of life’s losers (but other losers did).
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http://www.dominicgalea.com/bio.htm
Some of his oeuvres:
“Ulied in-nanna Venut fl-Amerka” (1991),
“Il-Gwerra ta’ Spiru Cefai” (1992),
“Zeza tal-Flagship” (1996),
“It-Tfajla tal-Palazz” (1997),
“Karmen Abdilla” (1998)
“Manwel, Manwel! [Baxxter’s note: Dimech] Il-bandiera tal-Maltin” (2000)
[Daphne – Dear God in heaven.]
Does a Dominic Galea Collection exist? My CD collection is desperate to have it. Especially fond of ‘In-Nannu Kornut fl-Amerrka’.
Expect five years of wall-to-wall Iljieli Mediterranji, Festival tal-Kanzunetta Maltija, Renato, Mary Spiteri, rokopra, and countless re-runs of Gensna Redux.
Kenneth must be THRILLED.
WardaKanta?
Dominic Galea is the son of Sammy and Doreen Galea (both songwriters, if I am not mistaken)
Nicky Depiro spiccalu n-nejk kollu and he has ended up mixing with this scum. Was he afraid that he would end up having to do another runner from Malta for financial reasons, as he did in the 1970s (or was it the 1960s) and end up living in England by the grace and favour of friends who let him stay in their ‘stately home’ as a glorified caretaker?
People like that are just glorified pragmatists and survivors, nothing more, nothing less. After all, his family’s original claim to fame and fortune was the buying and selling of other human beings as slaves.
Perhaps the defining epithet for Nicholas Depiro is in Daphne’s first sentence: someone with “a long historical tradition practised by many Maltese families over the centuries and of which he has no reason to be embarrassed.”
Dominic Galea is another local semi-pro blessed by a Master’s from tal-Qroqq and an inflated ego. Local phenomenon.
http://dominicgalea.com/bio.htm
Mro Galea does not have an inflated ego, he’s a decent chap who shies away from praise. If he really had an inflated ego, he would be all over the place, but he isn’t, he keeps low key. He worked for his Masters, comes from a family of musicians and is totally focused on his work. What’s the problem with that?
What’s he doing with Labour, then?
The problem is he still writes crap.
Caflanga a Master’s degree from Tal-Qroqq’s music department means absolutely nothing. All the department does is churn out people for the semi-pro local scene.
Caroline Tonna’s (estranged) husband is yet another one who did so badly under the Nationalists that his company grew and grew and made him financially comfortable. Because of all the Nationalist government bureaucracy he had no choice but to expand his business and employ many people, and then he was forced to make a lot of money to pay them. Or at least that was the sob story he gave on JosephMuscat.com’s podium pre election. GonziPn qatlu bil-guh, poor thing.
Interesting, was not aware of Brian Tonna’s advocacy for the Labour Party.
Note to self, do not introduce any further business to him.
NOT ME!
What about Simone Cini?
How much will these new posts entail for each of them?
[Daphne – That is hardly the point, is it.]
Dr Paul Cachia is the personal lawyer of Jose Herrera and very close to the PL leadership.
u idolu ta’ musumeci ghax jemmen li hu l- aqwa civilist ta’ Malta
Paul Cachia is Rachel Montebello’s first cousin, lecturer extraordinaire and an Oxford Alumni. His mother is Dennis Montebello’s sister.
http://www.cachiaadvocates.com/Partners__Dr._P.html
Mrs Marshall was a well known actress while Mr Marshall is known as a theatre director and poet.
[Daphne – How old are you, David? Jane Marshall is known for nothing except the (pitiful) Xandir Malta/Madonna tac-Coqqa scene I describe in this post, and which I clearly remember watching and laughing at aged around 11. Her husband is known for little other than being a self-serving Labour lackey. Both of them literally disappeared into the Australian sticks for a couple of decades, during which, presumably, they were well-known among the Maltese immigrant community for being…yet another couple of Maltese immigrants.]
She also had a kids’ programme starting at six, ‘Mill-Istudio’.
Followed by Arabic lessons by the man with the serious tuft of hair on his otherwise bald pate.
There is more that you and I did not know about Mr Marshall. http://www.maltaculture.com/content.aspx?id=348497.
[Daphne – You are so gullible and literal-minded, David. He wrote that himself.]
Even if he wrote it himself, it does not necessarily follow that what he wrote is not correct.
“(Marshall) obtained a teacher’s diploma from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art”
Many other Maltese have that. These are simply external examination that are common in the Commonwealth and that are absolutely worthless.
You’re not going to teach with that in the UK let alone on the continent. Had Marshall studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art he would have trumpeted it as loud as he can.
What happened to Silvio Parnis? We don’t hear much about him these days.
He organised a trip to Comino for his groupies this weekend. You should have seen them. It looked like the invasion of the genetically challenged and swarthy Vikings. Or 42DD-Day.
It’s like an infestation of ants: they are everywhere. Literally.
The word is that Jackie Mercieca is somewhat dissappointed for having just been given this.
Albert Marshall is good at producing plays full of swearing, ridiculing the church and the sacraments, featuring obscene sex among members of his despised upper classes (or what he thinks are the upper classes), criticising the Gonzi government and even making fun of Dr. Gonzi’si eye condition like he did in L-Indemonjati at the Manoel Theatre. His wife even acted out some of the most low gestures and words. What are we going to see at the Manoel next season? Probably tejatrin tal-kappillan. Or more of the same.
Is this Testa the star appearing in a video you featured in a later blog. Perhaps he might receive a grant from for his next video. Standards constantly improving.
I’m so glad you said something about the Laburisti in Lace. I found the whole effort produced an extended two-finger down the throat reaction.
Domenic Galea huwa wiehed minn Domenic Galea Trio u huwa iben Sammy u Doreen Galea.