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Two big ugly deaths over the weekend, we have left Gary Moore and Tura Satana. Admiralty And we are all much more sad.
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was among the first few girlfriends of Elvis Presley became an icon of the sexploitation genre, American B-movies of the sixties, scollacciati and schizophrenia, and Quentin Tarantino was so captivated by his inspiration for the character role of the Bride, headed by Uma Thurman in Kill Bill saga!. She died Friday night in Reno, in Nevada. He was 72 years old, having been born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1938 - but some sources say 1935 - a Japanese actor of the silent era, while his mother had origins Cheyenne, Irish and Scottish. Precisely because of the nationality of his father, Tura, still small, was interned with his family in the concentration camp at Manzanar, in California, where in the years of World War II more than 110 000 Americans were confined originating enemy Japan.
Tura Satana owes its fame to the film by Meyer, wherever it appears in boots, gloves and tight black shirt, and plays a stripper at the head of a gang that includes two other boys Junoesque, Billie, and Rosie, looking for money and trouble in the desert crossed on board powerful cars. Among small ranch and service stations, the three thugs kidnap, kill and filled with a series of unfortunate barrel. Varla fights with blows of karate, in a film that quickly became a myth for the feminists of the Sixties (Varla members beat and especially men and a boy in the story appears solid, vegetable, unable to speak and deal with 'opposite sex). But above all, Faster Pussycat! became a cult B-movies: Tarantino the same time would like to shoot a remake of the film, and the role of Varla would have thought Britney Spears. The film also inspired a video of a famous piece of rock Swedish band The Cardigans, My Favourite Game, where the singer Nina Persson guide nel deserto a velocità pazza, in completo nero e guanti, proprio come Varla.

Dopo il suo primo successo Tura comparve in altri B-movies, come The Astro-Zombies (1968) e The Mark of Astro-Zombies (2002). Ma la sua notorietà resta legata alla figura vampiresca di Varla, e alla storia d'amore con Elvis Presley: la ex groupie Pamela Des Barres ha intervistato Tura nel libro Let’s Spend the Night Together, dove si racconta che The Pelvis, appena 17enne, restò affascinato a guardare uno spettacolo dell'allora ventenne Satana, per «il modo in cui lei muoveva il suo corpo e teneva in ostaggio i marinai, come oggetti sessuali». La leggenda vuole che Tura abbia insegnato a Elvis come si bacia una donna, and that until the end of his days he wore the ring he gave her.

The difficult childhood of the actress, after internment in California, had continued in Chicago, in a neighborhood that she called 'a little Italian, and Polish jew, practically a suburb of the city mafia. " Ing itself, in its online site, told how she became a champion in school athletics, and was long discriminated against and mistreated by her companions, because of its origins, until he made his debut as a nude model and dancer. In 1963 came the first film role - is a prostitute in a brief scene in Irma la Douce - then the everlasting fame with the film by Meyer. Coi his tight pants, breasts overflowing from the look and carrion. Unforgettable.