I just wanted to mention that the book Kier-La did on Italian actor Luciano Rossi, "Violent Professional, A The Films of Luciano Rossi" is now up for pre-order at Fab Press:

http://www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=FAB079

I'm totally looking forward to this. Rossi's one of my all time undersung favorites, though I never dreamed someone would write a book dedicated to him (or even dedicate a book on some other subject to his memory.)

Apart from Luciano's odd charisma and the fact that his offscreen life story is of considerable interest (as it's a total mystery to most of us, but there's got to be some sort of sad story attached; at least that's what his boyishly charming yet tortured performances in films like Django, the Bastard suggest) it's his life in film that makes the topic a really, really good one. Rossi was in every sort of genre movie, and in many of the better representative examples (some famous, others worthy of rediscovery), and thus may serve as our Vergil (as in Dante's Inferno), our guide to the whole underworld of Italian cinema. Great news.