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"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night (now called Saturday Night Live, or SNL) and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the impending death of Francisco Franco. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon.
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
Franco was the second person interred in the Santa Cruz basilica. Franco had earlier interred José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange movement, who was executed by the Republican government in 1936 and was buried by the Francoist government under a modest gravestone on the nave side of the altar. Primo de Rivera died on 20 ...
On 29 November 2011, the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen, formed by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero under the Historical Memory Law and in charge of giving advice for converting the Valley to a "memory centre that dignifies and rehabilitates the victims of the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime", [1 ...
James Franco is leaving the past in the past.. The actor, 46, spoke to Variety ahead of the Rome Film Festival premiere of his movie Hey Joe, revealing what it was like to go from a beloved star ...
In a new interview, actor James Franco opened up about the self-work he's done since he was accused of sexual misconduct and explained why his outlook on life has shifted.
Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead → Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead – The accented í seems to come from the Spanish word, but the Spanish word is not being used (note that there is only a single s in the Spanish word generalísimo). Chase seems to have used the Anglicized term from Italian.
The Pittsburgh Steelers star died just days before the 50th anniversary of the famous play.