Character's parade

Sutton Hoon is a professional poker player in his forties. He is always mindful to behave properly and never loose his temper, Sutton uses language with care, choosing out fashioned, decent and polite words. He is good hearted, elegant in classic suits and with a declared passion for handcrafted watches, has a positive attitude but hides a mysterious secret. He is very proud of how he earns the day and how he preserves the family tradition of gambling through the generations, from grand father to father and to son. Often he declares, tired at dawn: “I’ve been playing all night long to avoid working every day”. The character is inspired by Billy Idol, the British  singer and performer.

Celia Calanais, wife of Sutton Hoon, is smart girl with brains. She has invented “the Machine” a tool to reproduce an object with the same characteristics of the original, in shape, material, and also “carbon dated” records. She reproduces works of art and delivers them to a nasty pander who apparently sells them to collectors ready to spend millions to have an original work of art. The Machine reproduces a perfect copy, but in 40 hours the object becomes shining dust, and the collector remains empty handed.

Celia is always busy changing her clothes or moving books and pictures from one room to another of her house. Celia has to take care of her younger sister money shortage as well as helping friends. The character is inspired by British singer Dido.

Miss Winters, the housemaid, is a middle age bullish woman. The character is inspired by Vivienne Westwood, the style creator. Everyone in the house is afraid to cross her path and is scared to do something wrong. Every time any accident happens in the house, the first comment is “Miss Winters will not like that at all.” Miss Winters has a distinguish suitor, Colonel Armadale.

Colonel Armadale, aged retired colonel in love with Miss Winters, they often went out dancing, the character is talked to, talked of, but never shows up.

Arthur Dunburton, Sutton’s personal secretary and attendant, character is inspired by Nick Cave, the Australian performer. He is a faithful, old style servant, always silent and cold blooded, he is able to handle every situation and help his master when he needs to make up prompt decisions.

Sutton: “We’ve meet ages ago, he was loosing bad, he had a destructive habit to play “all in”, at that time and was completely broken. I’ve imposed him to stop playing and he works with me since: he owes me his life. He is indispensable to my work, I need a silent attendant who spots life around me. When I play I have eyes only for cards: it could be extremely dangerous.”

Alice Calanais, Celia’s younger sister, character inspired by Liela Moss, singer in English pop group The Duke Spirit. She is a pretty girl who desperately needs to find a husband “outrageously rich, dramatically handsome and overwhelmingly funny”.

Alice: “I wish I’ll find a husband rich as yours. Not for the money, of course. Just to keep my standards of living, you understand.”

Alice: “All my friends are married, some are divorced already. I can’t find a rich enough man, Celia, this is the truth. I think I’ll end up my days on your sofa complaining like this.”

Alice is always after the glamorous outfits her sister Celia is wearing just once in a lifetime, but she does not know that they are duplicated with the “Machine” and are going to disappear after 4o hours. Celia does not tell her the secret despite the protests of Alice who proclaims her humble attitude.

Celia: “I’m the ‘wear once and get rid of it’ kind of girl, you know that well, but I’ll never allow my own sister to live on my own waste, Alice dear.”

Celia: “No, never in my life I’ll let you go around with a frock I’ve already wore once. You are a unique creature, dear, and you deserve unique clothes.”

And poor Alice remains each time wordless and unable to gain the dress she has seen her sister wears.

Mrs Hoon, Sutton’s mother, the character is inspired by Annie Lennox, the Scottish singer of duo The Eurythmics. She is very confident in her method and wants everything to work in harmony with her own rules. She has a hilarious quarrel, made of creatively funny cruel mutual insults, with Miss Winters, who does not allow any intervention in her territory and dislikes to be told how to manage the house.

Adam Dunvegan, Sutton best friend, called affectionately that ‘Damn Dunvegan. The character is inspired by Dave Gahan the British singer and performer in pop band Depeche Mode. Adam is a pattern design researcher, but no one does know what he is exactly doing for earn a living.

Robin, Celia’s best friend, is a nice girl, self-made business woman, has created a cosmetic empire from nothing. Suffers of insomnia and cooks at night while  she writes best seller crime novels under hidden identity. Robin has a pet, a skinny dog, a dark grey furred Deerhound named Walter. The poor thing is usually left to Celia’s care and soundly snores under the table where Sutton and his mates play poker.  Robin character is inspired by Shirley Manson, Scottish singer in pop group Garbage.

Alice: “Your friend Robin is a brilliant pretty girl.  Gorgeous hair she has, but that nose!"

"Why don’t she thinks about getting it fixed somehow?”

Celia: “She already has. “

"Alice: “Well I’m afraid it will need further attention."

"I’m sure it will not cost so much money and time, after all.”

Celia: “Alice, dear, you don’t get it. Robin has a proportionate figure, she’s smart and has a lovely face." "How could anyone have taken her seriously as a pretty girls as she was?"

"She had nose surgery to deconstruct her nice nose. A pretty girl needs a single visible faulty spot to divert the attention from her beauty. Now she’s perfectly happy, she manages a company of her own and writes books in her spare time. She has a young handsome husband and you can’t even tell if the nose is genuinely matched with her face or if it has had surgery: such a good job they have done.”

The middle man who intermediates between Celia and the collectors, is called the “pander”.  In season one the character has no name and is inspired by American performer Iggy Pop.

The pander usually meets Celia to give her the object to be reproduced in a silver case with scarlet fluffy interior. The object is return in the same case, and the reproduced object is in a black case with emerald fluffy interior.

The meetings usually take place at a Café or in a Bar, recognizable locations in episodes:

Episode 1 Tiles Edimburgh

Episode 2 American Bar Vienna

Episode 3 The Imperial Café Prague

Episode 4 Caffè San Marco Trieste

Episode 5 Bar at Metropole Hotel Bruxelles

Episode 6 Majestic Café Porto

Episode 7 Tortoni Café Benos Aires

Episode 8 Willow Tea Room in Glasgow

Episode 9 Café Falsataff Bruxelles

Episode 10 Restaurant Julien Paris

When the pander receives the original and the reproduction in separate cases, he gives Celia a money transfer code for the immediate payment on her account.

Celia: “I never carry any money with me, I’ve never get accustomed with such modern habits, I’ve a barbaric view of life. My husband deals with money all the time and it does not seem to do him any good. Let me have a look at my account; you understand, to verify amounts it’s all I can bear to do, when money is involved.”

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