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...Italian politician is so despised by his cinematic nemeses that they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent none other than Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Premier, who last month lost his bid for re-election after five years in office. But Moretti's entry at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director...
...government's standing has also been buffeted by multiple scandals. His deputy, John Prescott, was exposed as having an affair with his appointments secretary. The husband of Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, is alleged to have taken bribes from outgoing Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Home Secretary Charles Clarke was forced out when it was revealed that his department had ignored repeated warnings that dangerous foreign prisoners were being released when their sentences were up rather than being considered for deportation. And Scotland Yard is examining whether Labour Party figures may have effectively sold places in the House of Lords...
...Happy now?" SILVIO BERLUSCONI, outgoing Prime Minister of Italy, to the left-wing paper L'Unita after resigning and paving the way for Romano Prodi, the center-left leader, to form a new government. Berlusconi held out for three weeks after Italy's election before conceding defeat...
...self-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...
...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...