By: Sante Brun

Sante Brun — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:20:06 +0000

‘But Italy is said to be the country of fashion and style…’ No doubt meanwhile you had the chance to realize that all this is for export only. Look at Adriano Celentano’s TV shows: The Netherlands in the fifties. Totò is still very popular, some of his more than hundred films can be seen frequently on Italian TV. And the man has been dead for over fourty years. As far as I know Fellini, Bertolucci and Visconti movies are shown seldom on Italian TV. If you look in shops that aim at ‘common people’ in Italy, the top of luxury is a copper lamp with plastic ivy wound around it, For Martinelli’s pipistrello you better go looking in the US or Germany, (or in my drawing room, for that matter) as they are seldom used in Italian households. Watch the ‘Prova del cuoco’ lunchtime show on Raiuno. Silly dancing and nursery songs are the staple there (and delicious food, of course) — Antonella Clerici, who knows nothing and can’t do anything but flash her eyes and show her cleavage, is the unbeatuable star there. In these surroundings the tv ads tyou mention fit in hamoniously…

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