Ladies and gentlemen, the dance stylings of the incredible Heather Parisi.
Wait 'til you get to the 1:00 minute mark.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the dance stylings of the incredible Heather Parisi.
Wait 'til you get to the 1:00 minute mark.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 24, 2022 7:00 AM |
Two thoughts:
David Letterman called. He wants his teeth back.
I didn’t know Chris Kattan had a previous career.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 15, 2022 10:17 PM |
Is she French? She has really French teeth.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 15, 2022 10:23 PM |
This makes me wonder if I should have been a coked up disco queen in 70's era Italy.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 15, 2022 10:24 PM |
R2 Italian. Or some kind of Spanish.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 15, 2022 10:24 PM |
This looks like “Showgirls” choreography. I wonder if it was the same choreographer.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 15, 2022 10:25 PM |
She got a little tuckered out toward the end there.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 15, 2022 11:50 PM |
What? I liked the energy
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 16, 2022 12:01 AM |
This is what I have imagined the entertainment was at the bathhouses in the 70's
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 16, 2022 12:14 AM |
I. Fucking. Loved. That. How have I never heard of Heather Parisi until today?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 16, 2022 12:51 AM |
Unfortuntely, Google reports she is a nutty anti-vaxxer
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 16, 2022 12:53 AM |
They got the lyrics all wrong, it’s: she’s a Gainiac, Gainiac, check my drawers
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 16, 2022 2:02 AM |
Heather Parisi is American. She was a huge TV star in Italy. Her antics could be really excruciating. She was just weird.
Actually that clip looks like one of her finer moments.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 16, 2022 2:12 AM |
The queen at the 1:00 minute mark….I hope he’s a DLer.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 16, 2022 2:17 AM |
I am fucking screaming!🤣
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 16, 2022 2:25 AM |
Heather Parisi's rival was Lorella Cuccarini.
And here they are together!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 16, 2022 2:30 AM |
Why so many Russian comments?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 16, 2022 2:53 AM |
What in the coked-up hell was that. Poor Adrian Lynne. And R5 is right about the Showgirls energy this is giving off.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 16, 2022 3:55 AM |
Italian tv is weird parallel reality.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 16, 2022 4:06 AM |
I liked it. 8 out of 10.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 16, 2022 4:58 AM |
I think that's the same wig used for the female lead in "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace."
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 16, 2022 4:59 AM |
OP's video should come with a warning about possibly inducing epileptic seizures. The song is "Maniac" not "Manic"! But I do second the comments about the Dancing Queen that joins her on that platform.
R15's video is nuts too. Shows just how much they led with their pussies back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 16, 2022 5:01 AM |
Reminds me of when I travelled in Italy with my parents in the 80s. My mom and I were glued to Italian TV, it was so campy.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 16, 2022 5:04 AM |
Literally crotch everywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 16, 2022 5:09 AM |
Looks like she pulls a crotch muscle when doing the splits and has to bring one leg back in to keep from cramping up.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 16, 2022 5:10 AM |
[quote] "Actually that clip looks like one of her finer moments."
WTF? There is SO much to unpack in that OP video. The choreography (which does indeed look like it came from "Showgirls" choreographer Marguerite Derricks), the costumes, Heather's bad hair (even for the 1980s)...
It was definitely hilarious and worth the watch. But "one of her finer moments"?! The insanity. .
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 16, 2022 5:19 AM |
Marguerite Derricks may possess some blame for Showgirls, but when working with actual amazing dancers such as in this unedited single shot final scene from an ep of the woebegone Bunheads it is clear she is a formidable force…
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 16, 2022 5:35 AM |
[quote]Italian tv is weird parallel reality.
French TV too.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 16, 2022 5:45 AM |
God, I knew her family really well - She was from Sacramento and they owned an Italian restaurant, Parisi's.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 16, 2022 5:46 AM |
I posted this video years ago, she could dance her flat ass off though.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 16, 2022 5:47 AM |
If there were ever a Datalounge signature dance move it would be superfast scissor leg kick,
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 16, 2022 5:52 AM |
She puts Donna McKechnie to shame.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 16, 2022 5:54 AM |
[quote]Italian tv is weird parallel reality.
[quote]French TV too.
You boys haven't seen German TV? I'm telling you whoever thought good taste and Europe go together should be sentenced to watch euro TV for the rest of their days.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 16, 2022 5:56 AM |
Instant DL fave.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 16, 2022 6:08 AM |
What an awful singer. How did she get a contract?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 16, 2022 6:12 AM |
I watched a few videos of her. Are Italian men really into legs? I felt like I was watching fetish clips.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 16, 2022 6:25 AM |
Bitch can neither sing nor dance.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 16, 2022 6:56 AM |
She's a pretty good dancer, really, but who let her sing!
I mean, she can't even sing with the help of a studio and a million retakes, even with all the technical help in the world she sounds like she breathed out each word separately, and the audio producers cut it all together.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 16, 2022 7:33 AM |
Do I have to be Italian to understand the nipple dress at r37?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 16, 2022 7:55 AM |
I love this video. Reminds me of something from "Fame"
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 16, 2022 9:33 AM |
For some reason OP's video is giving me a slight panic attack.
I wonder what the dancers thought? Were they ashamed to on that or just thinking it's a paycheck. Or were they proud of it?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 16, 2022 9:51 AM |
Those two guys in the red jackets are hawt. I wanna see them fuck (as I'm sure they did).
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 16, 2022 9:54 AM |
It’s not that bad ..
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 16, 2022 10:16 AM |
They're probably dead R42
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 16, 2022 10:17 AM |
R28 How did their daughter end up on Italian TV?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 16, 2022 11:24 AM |
R37 one of the 'boxers' keeps punching himself in the face. Says it all really.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 16, 2022 11:39 AM |
Here's what she looks like today. Still looks pretty good for a 63-year old blown out dancer.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 16, 2022 2:17 PM |
OP, you made me pee. The male dancer on the box with her was the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Seriously, he must have been like, "This looks so fucking stupid but it's a paycheck "
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 16, 2022 2:29 PM |
That guy at 1:00 looks ridiculous but he's superhot.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 16, 2022 2:40 PM |
As if the backup dancers in their Solid Gold Meets Perfect aerobic outfits weren't enough, they had to add the queen who looks like Shields of Shields and Yarnell in his black and white striped tights at the end.
This is DL heaven!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 16, 2022 2:42 PM |
They improved upon the original.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 16, 2022 2:44 PM |
"Do I have to be Italian to understand the nipple dress at [R37]?"
Those aren't nipple windows, those are the eyes of the tiger she's singing about!
So apparently it wasn't just the choreographer who was coked to the gills.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 16, 2022 8:19 PM |
was that coke or just the 80's?
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 16, 2022 8:43 PM |
^both
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 16, 2022 9:17 PM |
This was a scream. Truly the funniest thing I've seen in months.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 16, 2022 9:19 PM |
R35 Wasn’t legs a thing until 90’s? I remember Married with Children and Howard Stern or any 80’s movie, they’d always show a pair of legs with heels. Even on movie posters. And guys used to say thing like “look at the legs on her”.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 16, 2022 9:28 PM |
Opening posts and threads like this one are why I come to DL.
R37 Cat's-eye Nipples!
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 16, 2022 9:32 PM |
She's anti-vax, so fuck her.
[Quote]During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Parisi chose to remain unvaccinated. On her website in December 2021, Parisi logged an entry entitled "Damned for Eternity" in which she told women that they "should be ashamed" of having children vaccinated against COVID-19 and that it was "criminal". In a different post, Parisi stated that "For me, being socially responsible is one of the most overestimated virtues."
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 16, 2022 9:37 PM |
No worse than when Herb Alpert and Lani Hall did it at the oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 16, 2022 9:42 PM |
R59 Ha! I'd like to see Herb Alpert moves his legs like I did.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 16, 2022 9:47 PM |
R24 ROFL 🤣
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 16, 2022 9:58 PM |
She’s fixed her teeth in R37’s video. Ol’ Gap Tooth is gone.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 16, 2022 11:02 PM |
toot toot
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 17, 2022 2:12 AM |
Her biggest hit, "Cicale," was a LSFYL selection for [italic]Drag Race Italia.[/italic] She seems especially geeked up in this performance of it.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 17, 2022 3:43 AM |
Well, she can't be a COMPLETE coked-up, cramp-impervious, pussy-leading, scissor-kicking whore. She's at least bilingual too.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 17, 2022 3:47 AM |
Holy cats, R64, you mean she released records? AUDIO RECORDINGS?
She's a good dancer, but OMG that makes her the single worst professionally recorded singer ever!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 17, 2022 3:49 AM |
If Britney and Madonna had a buttbaby...
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 17, 2022 3:50 AM |
Umm. I just posted this elsewhere, but it's relevant, R66
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 17, 2022 3:51 AM |
[quote] She's a pretty good dancer, really, but who let her sing!
She's not even singing live. If so, she would have one of those headsets like Janet Jackson and Britney Spears. Not that those 2 actually sing live, but that's what it would look like IF one was singing live.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 17, 2022 4:02 AM |
Kudos, OP, that was so very random. I've never heard of Heather Parisi. It did look like cocaine was involved in the choreography.
Cocaine was not involved in the Propaniacs rendition of "Maniac." However, Dale Gribble (on the keyboard) may have had a snort or two.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 17, 2022 4:04 AM |
R68 Sondra never fails to entertain...wonder what she's doing now
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 17, 2022 6:55 AM |
Thank you, R73, and if that dance step doesn't have a name it should be called the "Cokehead Shuffle"!
And your lovely clip also gave me a chance to admire how orange her face is compared to her body.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 17, 2022 8:29 AM |
R64 Why does she keep rubbing her boobs?
Scabies?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 17, 2022 10:58 AM |
[quote]How did their daughter end up on Italian TV?
While visiting Italy on vacation, she was spotted dancing in a club by a choreographer who worked on variety shows for RAI (Italy's BBC).
Although she's Italian-American, she only knew a little Italian starting out and had to sing phonetically. She did become fluent eventually; today she speaks and writes in English like someone who isn't a native speaker.
According to Italian Drag Race fans on Reddit, she's beloved in Italy as a camp icon and is a vocal gay ally despite her anti-vaxx bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 17, 2022 11:07 PM |
^ Italians don't condemn one another for their views on vaccinations. No one would ever thinking of cancelling Heather Parisi for her stance on vaccines. That's what Americans do.
Along with Heather Parisi and Lorella Cuccarini, there was Pamela Prati.
Unfortunately this vid of her hit "Que Te La Pongo" is low rez but you can get the idea:
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 18, 2022 12:41 AM |
Did that stripey kid at the end steal those pants from the lead singer of the Tubes?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 18, 2022 1:28 AM |
I want to zoom back to the late70's/early80's, do a bunch of blow, then zoom back.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 18, 2022 3:54 AM |
If I'm reading the subtitles correctly on this YouTube clip, she's promoting pro-Russia/anti-Ukraine propaganda.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 18, 2022 6:22 AM |
"Although she's Italian-American, she only knew a little Italian starting out and had to sing phonetically. She did become fluent eventually; today she speaks and writes in English like someone who isn't a native speaker."
She must have the IQ of a rock.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 18, 2022 6:23 AM |
[Quote] She must have the IQ of a rock.
Hey! We don't say, "She must have the dancing ability of a Heather Parisi!" You wound!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 18, 2022 3:01 PM |
She gives me Brendad Ickson vibes
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 19, 2022 3:32 AM |
R86, the instrumental version of Fiesta was the music used by gymnastics goddess Svetlana Boginskaya in her most iconic floor exercise.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 19, 2022 7:47 AM |
Heather really butchered that song. Coincidentally, the song "Maniac" was inspired by the 1980 slasher film Maniac.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 22, 2022 11:43 AM |
That was fantastic, terrifying, and hilarious! She's got the unhinged, amped-up appeal of a modern (well, relatively) Anita Berber. Never heard of her and will now embark on a little Googling spree.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 22, 2022 12:23 PM |
Looks like ol' Heather has become a rather rabid and vocal anti-vaxxer.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 22, 2022 4:26 PM |
The Disco Bambina!. Heather attended my high school. Apparently, I missed her by just a year. Until Greta Gerwig directed Ladybird, Heather was St. Francis's most famous student. I assume she graduated, but the school's Wikipedia page doesn't list her under "Notable alumnae." I'm not sure if this means she didn't graduate or if the school is embarrassed to have her listed.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 22, 2022 6:05 PM |
^I forgot to mention that while I knew she was a huge pop/TV star in Italy and was aware of the You Tube videos, I never actually played one because it's just not my kind of the entertainment. Oh, how I regret it! It's surreal!
Oh, and she's one of those women who had twins at 50 with new younger hot hubby.
[Quote]once she found the love of her life, that is Umberto, she had her splendid twins Elizabeth e Dylan, born in 2010 with assisted fertilization. All four live in Hong Kong to be closer to Umberto’s work, plus the children they don’t go to school, but they practice homeschooling, the education imparted by parents, which is very fashionable abroad.
Anti-vaxxer, home schooler. Hmm. It's like she never left the states. It's not clear if she carried the kids or if a surrogate did. If she did, she must think being artificially pumped full of hormones is totally different and much safer than a Covid vaccine.🙄
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 22, 2022 6:22 PM |
R94 I'm sure it was surrogacy.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 22, 2022 7:20 PM |
I'm so very sorry I'm a week late to this thread!
Heather is definitely a Brendad Ickson type, except it looks like she was smarter about image and not quite as mentally ill. And she scored a hot third husband.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 23, 2022 6:08 AM |
Wikipedia(Italian) says she's lived in Hong Kong since 2011. Bit of a U-turn.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 23, 2022 9:03 AM |
She definitely seems to be on the Brendad Ickson spectrum.
What a strange life she's led.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 23, 2022 4:40 PM |
It's particularly funny with the sound turned off.
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