Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charly Chiarelli’s Cu’Fu? is something of a phenomenon. First produced as part of Artword Theatre of Toronto’s Festival of the Human Voice in May 1995, this one-man show about a Sicilian boy who grows up Canadian in working-class Hamilton has gone on to performances across the country and a broadcast on Bravo TV. Yet here in Hamilton, where I saw performances at the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in September 1998 and December 1999, the show felt more like a huge family gathering than an artistic sensation. Italian Canadian friends tell me that as soon as it is known that the show is coming back to Hamilton, people who have already seen it three times start buying blocks of tickets, knowing that they will easily find sisters, brothers, cousins and aunts who want to join in the fun. 1 Some of them even invite mangia cake relatives and friends like me, who are fascinated by the prospect of seeing a performance that elicits such a profound sense of recognition in the Italian Canadian community. Perhaps, we think, we will understand a little more about the traditional Italian families that are so much a part of our friends’ lives if we just hear Charly Chiarelli tell this story about his. Perhaps we will even be able to join in the nostalgia for the warm family life of Italian childhood that reviewers so often mention when they talk about the show (see “Reviews and Articles”). Perhaps, for the space of a performance, we will even feel that we are part of this big Italian Canadian family and that their warm and supportive past is our past too.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".