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...which of course I wouldn't want to do." Along with performances of several songs and inside secrets about life with the French President, Bruni's charm offensive on Italian TV looked like it might woo her native country. But it lasted less than 24 hours. The next evening, Striscia della Notizia, a hugely popular prime-time gotcha journalism show, dug up the video from Bruni's Nov. 18 appearance on the David Letterman Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's First Lady Carla Bruni: A Traitor to Italy? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...week in a court in Ravenna, Italy, Western Kentucky University will square off with Mediaset, a TV company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. WKU, whose mascot has been the fuzzy-slipper-like BIG RED, right, since 1979, claims that GABIBBO, the mascot for Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay Up, or We're Sending Barney Over | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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