Talk:Elisa Gabrielli

Elisa Gabrielli...Published Articles, and HBO Special Doc...etc
I copied the following message of Juniper99 from Wikipedia Talk:Verifiability. --Bob K31416 (talk) 14:06, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Elisa Gabrielli here. Below are some of the Published Articles and other sources about the listing:


 * HBO Special"THe Making of "Madagascar:Escape 2 Africa" Running on HBO prior and during the release of the Movie as well as when it was subsequently running on HBO and again later on Network television. An entire section was dedicated to me and the character, with interviews etc, Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAeBStTcJ4
 * Published Book"The Art of Madagascar Escape 2 Africa" by Jerry Beck, Preface by Ben Stiller. Publisher- Insight Editions 2008.  Section 1 "Run for Your Wildlife" Nana pg 52-53 "From scene stealing cameo in the first film, to chief adversary in the penguins Christmas short, Nana was clearly destined for bigger things in the Madagascar . "We picked Elisa Gabrielli out of the loop group in the first film to audition for the old lady, now known as Nana. We ended up using her there, in the penguins short and in an expanded role in Madagascar 2. Talk about a success story. She's wonderful"
 * Newsday, Nov7,2008 "Madagascar:Escape 2 Africa" written by John Anderson 3rd and 4rth paragraphs. In this quote, "the mad jewish woman with the purse" refers to the character I voiced, but then he kindly mentions me again by name in the next paragraph.  "...But all anyone wants to watch are the crazy penguins, the mad Jewish woman with the purse and King Julien the Meerkat (Sacha Baron Cohen), all of whom inject this Eric Darnell/Tom McGrath-directed comedy with crazy energy and real laughs.
 * It's no secret in Hollywood that big-name stars are cast in these animated epics so studios will have talk-show-acceptable celebrities plugging the movies on TV. But "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" - in which the animals of the original film crash-land in their species' homeland - shows what really works in these things (and augments the state-of-the-art animation): As Skipper, the mad lead penguin, director McGrath is comically possessed; as Nana, the animals' nemesis, 'Elisa Gabrielli is incongruous and hysterical, and Cohen is a scream. So put up with the life lessons, and wait for the laughs."


 * Variety Nov. 3, 2008 Madagascar:Escape 2 Africa written by Todd McCarthy 6th paragraph   "... The four-leggeds have occasional run-ins with hunters and tourists, and none among the latter is as mirth-inducing as a take-no-prisoners old granny (Elisa Gabrielli) who takes it upon herself to singlehandedly uphold the combative reputation of New Yorkers with some fearsome martial-arts turns.
 * Among the other ace newcomers are Baldwin's scheming Scar equivalent, out to thwart Alex, and a two-ton Lothario out to romance Gloria, drolly endowed with basso profundo intonations by songmeister will.i.am,..."

(Also Glenn Whips at the same time article in LA.com on Nov 7th, and others)
 * San Jose Mercury News Nov 7, 2008 "Madcap Madagascar" by Robert W Butler (Wriiten for Kansas City Star as well, but don't have that date. End of 4rth/5th paragraphs "It's hard not to love...Or the little old lady (Elisa Gabrielli) who had just one scene in the first film but who emerges as Alex's nemesis, a a safari taking grandma who organizes a band of strafed tourists into a feral tribe right out of "Lord of the Flies"
 * Mecury News.com Nov 5, 2008 Review:" Madagacar sequel is a decent diversion, but no great escape" by Glenn Whips 2nd paragraph "The resulting animal pileup isn't as chaotic as you might expect, thanks to a streamlined screenplay from co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and series newcomer Etan Cohen. The addition of Cohen ("Tropic Thunder") gives this sequel extra bite, particularly noticeable in the expansion of the ninja-nanny character (Elisa Gabrielli) from a subway station cameo to a full-fledged character".
 * "Newsarama.com" Nov 7, 2008 "Madagascar 2, Second Verse as Same as the First" by Steve  4rth and 5th paragraphs "...That’s 17 characters Darnell and McGrath have to juggle. The good news is most of these characters had some kind of introduction in the first film, so the directors don’t waste time on them. Probably the best of the new though are Nana (Elisa Gabrielli), the little old lady, and that darn sexy hippo Moto Moto, who Will.i.am somehow manages to cross Barry White with Prince and makes it work.
 * "The Gazette" ( Colorado Springs ) Nov 6, 2008 "Lions Share of Laughs go to Supporting Cast in Madagascar" by Brandon Fibbs  "...Supporting characters should never be more interesting than the mains (manes?). Yet that is the case with "Madagascar 2." Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Julian, the nutty king of the partying lemurs with a hilariously enlarged role culminating in an attempt to appease the water gods by tossing one of the main characters into a boiling volcano.The old granny (Elisa Gabrielli), who so efficiently dispatched with Alex in the first film, returns as a vacationing New Yorker now single-handedly keeping the jungle at bay with her formidable martial-arts moves.
 * "The Baltimore Sun" Nov 7, 2008 "The menagerie in Madagascar 2 is a hoot" by Michael Sragow 4rth paragraph "Even the human characters, usually a drag on creature cartoons, add to the spirited anarchy. In her take-charge attitude, Nana (Elisa Gabrielli) represents the best and worst of New York rolled into one feisty package. She wields a handbag like a mace."
 * Cafe Mom.com The Stir Blog Dec 3, 2008 " Madagascar Character Inspired by Love"
 * "Animated Views- State of the Art"  Feb 27, 2009 "Nana's Back. Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar Escape 2 Africa by Jeremie Noyer (also published in France)
 * Toon Zone News Feb 24, 2009 'Toon Zone Interviews Elisa Gabrielli..." by Ed Lui

(There were also other Reviews and Radio Interviews etc in 2008 and 2009 ...but no immediate links or exact dates for referencing these Juniper99 (talk) 01:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)Juniper99 (talk) 04:24, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Badly sourced DOB
Gabrielli's date of birth was removed from the article; there was a source for the information, but when I looked more closely at that source I found that it's a crowdsourced Wiki-type site (not actually a wiki) called trueknowledge.com, and since the article's subject claims that the information is wrong there is no reason to keep it. Unless there's a proper source for the DOB it shouldn't be included, per WP:BLP. --bonadea contributions talk 18:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * The DOB was removed in 2012 by user:Juniper99 from english Wikipedia only. Now (2016) user:ElisaG9898 tries to remove the same information from italian and german Wikipedia, but not from esperanto Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia or Haitian Wikipedia. --° ( Gradzeichen ) 10:15, 1 June 2016 (UTC)