Casting
Felice Arena previously guested in Neighbours as Bob Cooper under name Fashia Arena (a credit typo, not a name by choice) in 1991. In March 1992, Arena won the role of Marco Alessi, cousin of established characters Christina and Caroline Alessi but quit due to disappointment with the direction of his character and filmed his final scenes that October. In an interview with TV Week, Arena told Mark McGowan "I sat down with the producers and the writers and it was decided the storylines weren’t going to go on. They are leaving it open for the character to return". Arena moved to the UK to star in several West End musicals, including Jesus in Godspell, but eventually found his true calling in writing. He is now one of Australia's biggest selling children's authors, best known for the Specky Magee and the Farticus Maximus series.
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“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.”
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