Talk:Blood Circus (film)/Archives/2012

YouTube links
This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 05:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Santo Gold Infomercial
Much is made of Blood Circus. But the true significance of Santo Gold is the infomercial. It was an experience to view it. And to this day, most of us who had seen it still question our sanity/sobriety during that period of our lives. Remember that this was one of the first infomercials ever produced (in my memory)....which makes it significant in and of itself. It came out in the 80s at a time when TV stations went off the air at night (so his cost must have been negligable). It was a mish-mash of Santo selling his 'chains-by-the-yard' franchise and Santo showing clips of 'Blood Circus'. A memorable line was: "Go to your local movie theater and ask the manager to show 'Blood Circus', the great space-wrestling-movie." (or something like that). There are some references to the infomercial on the internet. And believe me...if you'd seen that infomercial 20+ years ago....you would remember it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.104.4 (talk) 12:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Did Santo V. Rigatuso mimic "The Producers"
The whole story of 'Blood Circus' seems to be a cheap ripoff of the scam in the movie 'The Producers'. How much of that $2million (invested in the movie) came out of the pockets of Santo V. Rigatuso? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.104.4 (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

In response to your statement.
Santo Gold (Santo Rigatuso) had 60 employees working for him in the mid 80s. Some embezzled from him, others stole cash and threw his orders away. He would always give refunds or replacements. As far as the money spent for the movie Blood Circus. It started filming on 2-8-1985 and the main film was shot during two separate wrestling adnissions on 2-9-1985. The money that he spent on the Movie was earned prior to 1985.

A Wealth of Ecyclopedic Information about Santo Gold and Rigatuso
I am new to this edit process, but I find this page/subject fascinating. I came across a page that seems to have news articles, court information and other interesting information on Santo Gold. I will contact the Admin of the website to see if they are all right with linking and sharing of citations to flesh out this article. Is there a page dedicated specifically to the product of "Santo Gold"? The link is here: http://www.geocities.com/santogoldmuseum/index.html  Feddx (talk) 15:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Feddx

SANTO GOLD's User/TALK page is redirecting here
'''What's going on? I think there's some sort of screw up!! User:SANTO_GOLD is redirected to SANTO_GOLD and the talk page for that user is redirected here!! '''

How can I fix this?--Feddx (talk) 19:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The user chose to redirect their user page to the article. However, their talk page is not thus directed: User talk:SANTO GOLD. H.G. 20:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Washington Post Citation
Has been added. --Feddx (talk) 15:57, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I have spoken to the user. They requested someone that thought that they could help fix the problem. If things are directed where they should not be. Everyone would appreciate for someone to fix it. If the user is only one that can fix it, please advise how. Very much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.94.106.244 (talk) 13:25, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * There's a lot of information in what you've posted, but I don't believe the talk page is the best place for this. While your information is appreciated, without proper third party sources citing and verifying what you write, it unfortunately falls under WP:OR and is unusable on Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Feddx (talk • contribs) 14:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

SANTO GOLD'S BLOOD CIRCUS BIOGRAPHY
I have known The Rigatuso Family for over 60 years. Please read the real Biography of Santo Rigatuso (SANTO GOLD.) Much of this information can be foundon the Internet and in Archives that Preceded the Internet.

BIOGRAPHY:

Santo Gold is a Living Legend since 1983. He is known and respected Worldwide by millions. His songs and performances have aired on National TV hundreds of thousands of times. He spent close to Fifty million dollars promoting his name Santo Gold. If you are over 36, You got to know Santo Gold. He was spending as much as a million dollars on National TV each month. All of his commercials had him singing and performing in them. The Santo Gold (30 minute) Show out rated "I Love Lucy." If the public did not see him during the day or on weekends, they would wait up all night to see him. His infomercial's and TV ads., ran 7 days a week 24 hours a day. He was USA Networks best customer. Every Saturday for nearly ten years in a row, his TV Commercials would air, on over 400 TV stations and most all of the National Cable Stations. SANTO GOLD sung and danced in each one of his commercials, especially in Vince McMahons Wrestling shows. Santo Gold also hosted and produced "The Auction on the Air TV Shopping Network" which he founded in the mid 80s. He was dressed in character, sung and danced. It was like a continuous 24/7 New Years Party. His Network was live 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Then he aired and performed on the entire ABC Network at around 8PM Pacific time. He hired 3 inbound telemarketing Centers and thousands of operators to take the phone calls. He had 3 800 numbers on the TV screen. He received so many calls that it blew out all of the phone circuits and they were down for hours. He got into some sort of trouble with his catalogue project and over 3500 of his customers wrote in with their letters of support for him stating that they received everything that they expected and were happy with their orders. On Feb., 9, 1985 he hired an entire film crew and rented millions of dollars worth of film equipment from NY. Then he leased the Baltimore Civic Centre. Tractors and trailers full of movie equipment rolled in. He had 9 35 mm motion picture cameras, a train track surrounding the wrestling ring. They shot over 400,000 ft. of film. That is enough film to make 8 full length motion pictures. All of the cameras were remote control and were connected to moniters, even the one above the ring. The Golden Wrestling mat had his Name on it, SANTO GOLD. He hired a 40 piece orchestra, dancers, acrobats, cycle acts, and clowns and built a large stage at the opposite side of the wrestling ring. People were dancing and singing non stop for nearly 9 hours straight. Each attendent was handed a scream bag, had to pay to get in and sign a waiver that they were going to be in his movie. It was a long day, many wrestling fans were irritated that the show stopped and started to load up the cameras and prepare for the next scenes. They expected continuous non stop wrestling. There were thousands of people there. Right before Santo Gold performed, thousands of people were chanting "We want Santo Gold," We want SANTO GOLD." The place was roaring. Santo Gold pulls up in a chauffeur driven stretched white Lemo with several Guards and everyone was trying to touch his shiny attire. He throws hugs and kisses to everyone and was followed by the crowd to the very crowded stage. He was announced with an opening that Elvis Himself would have been proud of. When he presented the finished movie, Blood Circus at The Cannes Film Festival in France. He had nearly a dozen offers from several Countries and he turned them all down. He was fully dressed in the Santo Gold character and travelled with an actual armed guard (an off duty Police officer.) He then took the film to Hollywood and screened it at all of the major studios. 20 Century Fox exclaimed that it had the best sound track that they have ever heard. Then He screened it in NYC. During the 80s., over 20 of his TV commercials were running all at the same time with him singing and performing in each one. Each TV station ran his spots at least 10 times a day. He aired on over 440 TV stations at the same time for nearly 10 years. That's 4400 times a week, 30,800 times a month and 369,600 times a year for nearly 10 years. Millions of people had seen him sing and perform millions of times in the 80s. He was a household word and still is. People would call their friends, SANTO GOLD, or make statements like "Now don't be a Santo Gold." He has stayed active in the industry for over 23 years. At the age of 14, he worked in a small store that his Father opened for him. His Father and Grand Father had a Barbershop within viewing distance of the now Baltimore Stadiums. His Grand Father started the Barbershop fifty years earlier. They both passed away within 8 months apart. Santo became the second youngest State Licensed Barber In Baltimore at the age of 16. It wasn't long before he turned the back room of the barber shop into a music store. He advertised the store with full column ads., in the Baltimore News American Newspapers. During Christmas time he sold more drum sets then Montgomery Wards was selling. He advertised himself as "The Drum King of Baltimore." He would cut hair for 0.75 a head, earning $40.00 to $60.00 a day. He would close up the barber shop 6:30 pm., with dozens of people waiting in lineed up all the way around the corner waiting to get into the music store. He was the soul support for his Mom and younger brother. His broyher joined the Marines. Santo was born within blocks of the B&O Railroad, Babe Ruth's home, Edgar Allen Poe's burial place, The Headquarters for Montgomery Wards and the Baltimore Harbour. He is a devout Catholic and is very caring. He was an alter boy, a lector, and collected for many worthwhile charities. He would do anything for you. In the early eighty's, Santo created the name "Santo Gold." He had a special tuxedo made with golden chains sewn to it. He wore pounds of chains around his neck, a Gold Bullion and mirrored glasses. He created a character and became Santo Gold. He hired several manufactures to develop jewelry with a thin layer of actual 24k Gold. The items were not suppose to tarnish but many did. He would always make good and send his customers more from other factories or gave them refunds. He started his own National delivery service called "Happy Delivery Service" and hired people Nationwide to deliver the jewelry and collect the COD (cash on delivery)funds. It worked for awhile but many of his delivery people kept the cash for themselves. He created a catalogue with thousands of items in it. He gave everyone credit to purchase items from the catalogue. He sold millions of items including millions of pieces of jewelry. Many of his customers tried to pawn the bracelets, only to learn that they were not solid Gold. He never claimed that they were. He always stated that it was gold over metal. He lived 2 blocks from The B&O (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) The Railroad offices had a Major 5 to 8 alarm fire. A Fireman was trapped in the basement, begging for help. The building was burning out of control. The Fireman was pleading for his life. There were many boilers in the basement ready to explode. Santo risked his own life and rescued the Fireman, saving his own and the Fireman's life. Tragically within minutes, the boilers exploded and the entire building including the basement was engulfed in flames. In the early eighty's Santo founded a pen pal club and had thousands of his customers correspond with thousands of seniors in Nursing homes all over America. During Easter he would place an Easter Bunny at the downtown McCoreys. During Christmas, he would send children Records from Santa Claus. One day Santo decided to attend business classes. He signed up for an evening schedule. One of the teachers was a CPA. He handed Santo his business card. Santo hired the CPA to do his taxes which were always current. The CPA had a nervous breakdown and lost all of Santo,s paperwork. Santo did not understand how to prepare taxes. Several years went by and he received a call from someone and said that his tax papers were found in a bottom of a barrel. He sent $18,000 to IRS but did not give them his social security number. IRS returned the funds and requested a social. More years went by and IRS sent him a letter. His attorney said, "Don't respond, "I will take care of it for you.", and never did" Santo had around 60 employees, many of them were stealing from him and throwing the orders in the trash and keeping the cash for themself. This led to a Postal Inspector visit. He called his Attorney and he was advised not to let the Inspector perform a search without a warrant. Santo wanted the Inspector to do the search and believed that there was nothing he was hiding. The next day two Postal trucks came with 8 more Inspectors and all of his files were taken. His notoriety caught the attention of the Press, we was now being attacked on TV and made front page headlines. A Prosecutor told him that they could not get him on mail fraud charges, since only 2 people showed up to complain, but insisted that they would get him on tax evasion and they did. On his last promotion that he did. He took a check to the Post Office for 1.5 million dollars. It was reported to have brought in over 4 million dollars. It was all ceased by The Post Office and it was also reported that postal employees stole thousands of dollars in cash from the envelopes. Please keep his History alive, this is what Wikipedia is all about. This is why you get Contributions, to keep the truth in History. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.94.106.244 (talk) 11:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sharing. Please consult your therapist about adjusting the dosages of your medications. —12.72.74.161 (talk) 17:02, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * This was obviously posted by 'Santo' himself.   As such...it is unique historical document.   And the history that it provides (not to mention the glimpse into the somewhat deranged 'mind-of-Santo') is indeed both rare and precious to those of us who revere Santo as the 'unique' (and larcenous) individual that he is.     —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.104.4 (talk) 20:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * This is why there are talk pages. Finding gems like this after years on the internet is <3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.92.159.64 (talk) 12:47, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

santogold.com
It is likely that santogold.com is not actually owned or operated by Santo Rigatuso, it is possibly just a joke, since Santo Gold has become somewhat of a meme. Perhaps it would be best to make sure this web site is real, and it really does belong to Santo Rigatuso before making mention of it in the article. Panegyric (talk) 01:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)