The director does not bring with him to Catania's set his parrot Teto (Cacatoa Alba) as in Generazioni d'Amore but Titty, a yellow Psittacula Krameri who plays as auxiliary parrot for the first time. Titty is a female, blond and beautiful. She represents Fernanda Pivano to whom he dedicates the DVD of Fantasmi (2002) with the words: 'To Fernanda for the ghosts we lived together'.
Leo Gullotta was born and raised in the neighborhood where Ezio Donato had created the first part of Fantasmi. As a child, Leo played football in the cloister of the Benedictine University. In Catania he played for the first time the role and characters of Pirandello who, in the following years, would have led to the theater but in 2002 the boys in the street asked him for an autograph for the comic character of 'Mrs. Leonida' of Bagaglino with whom Gullotta had received a huge television success.
The Rector of the University of Catania, after the replies of Fantasmi, conferred the Medal of the City of Catania to Leo Gullotta and Ottavio Rosati. The Teatro Stabile of Catania symbolically paid the parrot Titty with ten kilos of sunflower seeds.
In the ten years between 2002 and 2012 Rosati mounted five versions of the film with Cinecittà Holding but none was satisfactory. After the sociodrama at Teatro Valle in Rome with Pier Luigi Pirandello (the nephew of the writer) and paintings by Fausto Piradello (the son) a student of Psychodrama School had the idea of creating a DVD of small sequences interspersed with multiple-choice questionnaires about the psychoanalytic reading of the Ghosts of Pirandello's family and Moreno's psychodrama.
2002 Catania: Gullotta inaugurates an exhibition dedicated to the great actors of Teatro Stabile di Catania. Rosati realizes a video interview about Leo's memories, and an interview to Ezio Donato in Teatro Bellini. Both can be found in YouTube's channel 'ipodplays'.
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