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A Sunday in Milwaukee with MTV Italia
Pif, armed with his hand-held camera.  
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What is a blog?  For us it is a short blurb that we write when the mood strikes us.  It can be first person, funny or informative. In short, a blog is whatever we want it to be. Published June 30, 2008 at 8:58 a.m.
Tags: pif, mtv italia, il testimone, happy days, bronze fonz, leon's, a&w

While crowds soaked up sunshine and then dodged raindrops at Summerfest on Sunday afternoon, I spent the day driving around Milwaukee with a quartet of folks from MTV Italia.

The group included two producers, including Niko Mazzei, who called OnMilwaukee.com last month to set the whole thing up, and Pif (aka Pierfrancesco Diliberto) -- known to MTV Italia viewers as the host of the show "Il Testimone" -- and his American-Italian sidekick.

They were here while traveling around the States filming sites featured on classic TV shows. Since few in Italy know "Laverne & Shirley" -- although some of a certain age remember it -- you can guess the show for which they visited.

Since the Bronze Fonz isn't yet mounted, we stopped at Leon's and the former Pig 'n' Whistle, which are among the places most cited as inspiration for Arnold's. Later, they lunched at A&W so they could experience first-hand what car-hop service is like.

We drove along the lakefront but there were apparently no submarine races scheduled. I took them to the East Side and Shorewood to see the neighborhoods where the Cunninghams supposedly lived. But, even the house whose facade appeared as the scene-setting shot for interior scenes in casa Cunningham is located in Wilshire, Calif.

Wowed by the sight of rummage sales -- rare in Italy, and distinctively American -- we stopped to film one but the man of the house demurred. Luckily, further down the street we found success.

As on the show "Il Testimone," Pif shoots all the footage himself on a handheld camera and seeing him working on the streets of Shorewood, he looked almost like a well-dressed, hip gunman or speed trap cop.

The program will air sometime in October or November and viewers can watch the show (in Italian only, sorry) on the MTV Italia Web site. I'll let you know when it's up and will provide a link.



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