Word: berlusconis
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...described buffoon (it has a slightly loftier connotation in Italian) and TV personality. In 2003 she launched a weekly show of political satire called RaiOt - for the network that carried it, RAI Tre, and the English word Riot. The comedy she perpetrated was unexceptional: getting made up as Silvio Berlusconi, Italy?s head of state, and telling jokes about him. But the show was cancelled after one airing, possibly because Berlusconi, a major industrialist, also owns RAI. "One man controls the government, the media and business," says a commentator on a French program similar to RaiOt. "Can you talk about...
...made a documentary, Viva Zapatero!. (The title exalts "And down with Berlusconi!") In this brisk blast of agitprop, Guzzanti, a handsome, passionate defender of her right to say what she wants, summarizes her case, quotes from attacks on her ("Madwoman"; "Tale Your Money and Shut Up") in Berlusconi-owned newspapers and ambushes politicians from Center-Left and Center-Right, who either supported Berlusconi or wouldn?t fight him. (Her father, one of her victims reminds her, is a Center-Right official. She replies, "I?m a grownup. I don?t have to ask permission...
...burlesque a nightly addiction for a million and a half Americans. But she does show excerpts from satirical series nearer home, including Rory Bremner?s Between Iraq and a Hard Place and the French puppet show Les Guignols de l?Info, in which effigies of Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi and other European leaders sing a mockery of "We Are the World" (in English): "We f--- the world, / We f--- the children, / We f--- the world, the forest and the sea / So let us do it." Maybe even the Comedy Central censors would shiver at that...
...Viva Zapatero!, which won a 15-20 min. ovation at last year?s Venice Film Festival, was Guzzanti?s immediate revenge on Berlusconi. Her ultimate revenge came this week, when the mogul-politico finally acknowledged the defeat he suffered in last month?s election...
...SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, who indicated plans to step down this week after having refused to concede his April 10 defeat to Romano Prodi, following the closest election in modern Italian history...