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roslinadama-sinequanon · 6 years

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Christmas in Connecticut-Chapter 14

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In this chapter Christine notices some changes in her sister.

It’s Christmas Eve and time for Andy and Sharon to share their good news with their families.

Silent night! holy night! All is calm all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace! Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night! holy night! Son of God love's pure light Radiant beams from thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord at thy birth Jesus, Lord at thy birth

Silent night! holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia Christ the Saviour is born Christ the Savior is born!

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Christine gave a low whistle of appreciation as she watched Sharon deftly chop carrots and butternut squash with the efficiency of a Reality TV chef. “Where did you learn to chop like that?” She asked.

“Andy.”

“Andy cooks?”

“Mmm…When he was growing up he had to help out in his grandparent’s Italian restaurant. Since then he’s loved to cook and he’s been helping me with my less than impressive culinary skills.”

“Italian? I thought he was Irish like us. It is Flynn, right?”

“Yes. Andrew Patrick Flynn. Irish on his father’s side, Italian on his mother’s.”

“Ahhh…is that why we’re having lasagna along with the ham as part of Christmas Eve dinner? Is it an Italian thing?”

“Actually, it’s an Andy thing. The Italians have a tradition called “The Feast of Seven Fishes”. They serve seven different seafood dishes on Christmas Eve. “

“And just where did you learn that?” Christine leaned in and snagged a carrot, grinning when Sharon swatted her hand away.

“Where do you think? It was part of Andy’s Christmas celebration when he was a child, but without a big extended family around him in California it was just too much food, so he started making his mother‘s lasagna instead and it became his and Nicole’s tradition. I decided to give it whirl and surprise them, hopefully make them feel more at home. I called his mother for her recipe. Usually it calls for tiny meatballs and sausage but Andy gave up red meat so this is a vegetable alternative. Sylvia swears no one will know the difference. I guess we’ll see.”

“Just don’t tell Ed what’s inside. It’s like pulling teeth for me to get him to eat vegetables—and his cholesterol is through the roof.” Christine continued to watch her sister stir spinach leaves into a big bowl of ricotta cheese singing, “I’ll be Home for Christmas” along with Andy Williams. Shaking her head, she grabbed a bottle of chardonnay from the refrigerator and poured them each a glass, asking, “Who are you, and what have you done with my sister?”

“What do you mean?” Sharon accepted the glass of wine and took a sip.

“Come on Share. You’ve never exactly been Martha Stewart. You always said you hated cooking; now you’ve morphed into Giada De Laurentiis.”

Sharon smirked. It was true. Back when Emily and Ricky were growing up, cooking meals had been just another responsibility she had to deal with on her own, right up there with laundry, grocery shopping and paying the bills. After working a full day at the PSB, sometimes longer, driving out to St. Joe’s to pick the kids up at their after school programs, settling them in at home and refereeing their squabbling, she was ready to kick off her high heels and curl up to relax with a glass of wine. Instead, she had to prepare a decent healthy meal for them. She did her best to create balanced menus, but the crock-pot and the microwave had become her best friends. After supper, while the kids sat at the kitchen table doing their homework, she would help them in between washing the dishes, cleaning up and packing their lunches for the next day. Once she had them bathed and tucked in with a story or two, she would do laundry or catch up on some work before crashing in her own bed with a book. Most nights she was lucky if she made it through a whole chapter before falling asleep. By the time her alarm went off in the morning and it was time to start the process all over again, it often felt like she had just closed her eyes.

“I used to look at cooking as just another chore on an endless list of chores. But with Andy, it’s fun. His love of cooking is infectious. I’ve started to enjoy it—at least when we’re cooking together. He’s taught me a lot and it’s just kind of nice to have that time together to unwind at the end of the day. We have some of our best conversations while we’re chopping and sautéing together.”

Christine sighed. “You’re lucky. The only thing Ed can cook is scrambled eggs, and he’d never think to lend me a hand.”

Sharon smiled at her sister. Christine liked to gripe about her husband, but there was no doubt how much she loved the man.

“I am pretty lucky. Between Andy and Rusty’s boyfriend Gus, who works as a cook, we’ve been eating very well lately, even without all the fat and red meat.”

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“Everything okay?’ Andy asked later, when they were dressing for the dinner party and midnight mass.

“Yes, why do you ask?” Sharon slipped the back of her earring on then turned to face him.

“I noticed a moment between you and your sister earlier today when she was hugging Ricky.”

“Mm…The perils of being engaged to a detective. Nothing gets by you.”

Andy’s eyes lit and he took her hand, a swell of love and pride filling his chest at his ring back on her finger, hopefully for good this time. “I like hearing you say that…engaged. But, you’re right, it didn’t get past me. I know it’s been a long time but your mom and I were just talking about that this morning. You never get over losing a child and with Ricky being the same age as her son would be?” He shook his head sadly. “I can’t even imagine.”

Quick tears burned in Sharon’s eyes at just the thought of losing her son. “I don’t even want to imagine.”

Back when they were in the “getting to know you” phase of their relationship, Sharon had opened up to him about the death of her nephew. Like Sharon, Christine had married right out of college, but unlike Sharon, her marriage to Brian O’Connor had seemed perfect. Their first daughter Jillian was a honeymoon baby, born a year before Sharon had Emily. Then a year after Emily, Bridget had come along. Despite living on different coasts, the three girl cousins bonded easily during Sharon’s vacations home.

Christine got pregnant a third time and after two girls, she and Brian longed to round their family out with a boy. Sharon had just given birth to Ricky when Christine found out that the baby she was carrying was also a boy. The sisters were thrilled and hoped their two sons would be just as close as Emily, Jillian and Bridget were. But, Joshua Michael O’Connor was born only 25 weeks into Christine’s pregnancy. He weighed barely over a pound---and died almost three weeks later. It had been devastating for the whole family. Family leave did not exist at the time and Brian had to keep working. Chris was recovering from her c-section and wanted to spend every second at the hospital but Colleen had recently broken her leg hiking in the White Mountains leaving her unable to take care of Jill and Bridget. Brian‘s parents were divorced and he did not have a good relationship with his mother, so, still on maternity leave, Sharon had flown back east with three year old Emily and baby Ricky to help. Figuring it would be hard for Christine to see healthy, thriving Ricky while her own tiny baby was fighting for its life, she had taken all four kids out to her grandparent’s house on Nantucket, while Colleen and William were there to support Brian and Christine.

Sharon remembered that time as more like a blur rather than a vivid memory. It had only been six weeks since she had given birth. She was nursing Ricky who was proving to be a much more demanding baby than Emily had been and was still not sleeping through the night. On top of that, she had to chase, entertain and take care of three little girls between two and four. It was exhausting. Her postpartum hormones were already wreaking havoc with her emotions and the added grief of seeing her little nephew covered in wires and tubes, along with trying to comfort her sister, was almost more than she could bear. But she did. Bear it. Because even though her heart was breaking. Even though she’d flown back to the east coast knowing that her marriage, barely five years in, was already in serious, serious trouble, she simply didn’t have the luxury of falling apart. Her family needed her and that was that. Somehow, she was able to dig in and find a way to summon reserves she didn’t even know she had.

Ironically, Christine’s marriage died first. Not slowly and painfully the way Sharon‘s had, but sharp and quick. Chris and Brian simply never recovered from their child‘s death. Brian wanted to try again right away for another son, while Christine was afraid to take a chance and go through that grief again. She was happy with just having her little girls. For Brian, it was a deal breaker. Before the ink was even dry on the divorce papers, he had remarried and quickly had two more children with his new wife. Both were girls.

A few years later Chris hired a landscaping company to do some work on her yard and met the owner, Edward Simmons. It was a perfect fit. Ed was 10 years older than Chris, divorced with two teens about to head off to college and was perfectly happy to help raise Christine’s daughters without wanting any more children of his own. Chris went back to school, got her masters in music history and was now the head of the music department at a private school in the Massachusetts Berkshires.

“She adores Ricky,” Sharon said. “But it’s not surprising that there are times it’s still hard for her. I suppose if we lived closer and she saw him all the time it would be different. Each time she sees Ricky she wonders what Josh would look like since they would be the same age. Would he be as tall as Ricky is? Would his voice also be changing? You know those kinds of things. “

“It’s good that you two can talk about it.”

“Mmm.. I worried about that in the beginning. I was afraid it might come between us. But Chrissie isn’t like that. She can love Ricky without resenting him or me for being lucky enough to have him. Can you help me with my necklace please?” She lifted her hair and presented her back to him so he could fix the clasp on the delicate white-gold chain with its tiny pearls and Celtic cross. When he’d finished she turned around leaving her hair up.

“What do you think?”

Her dress was strapless in a deep shade of emerald that matched her eyes. A sheer illusion scalloped lace overlay with elbow length sleeves covered her from her shoulders to her nipped in waist. The sheath style hugged her gentle curves in all the right places and she‘d finished off the look with a pair of knee high black suede boots he’d always found incredibly sexy. That combination of classy with sexy was something Andy had never found in another woman. “You look stunning…as always.”

Sharon smiled, warmed by the way he always made her feel so beautiful. “Thank you, honey, but I meant my hair. Do you think I should wear it up or down?”

“You’ll look gorgeous either way, but…” He threw his tie around his neck and took a step toward her pulling at the hand that held her hair up to allow it to fall in auburn waves to her shoulders. Reverently he thread his fingers through the silky mass. “You know how much I like you to wear it down. I love your hair.”

“The feeling’s mutual.” No middle aged balding or comb-overs for her man. Andy’s full head of thick dark silver tipped hair contrasted beautifully with his tanned skin. Her silver fox was sexy as hell. She felt herself flushing at the memory of the previous night, his head between her thighs, her fingers digging into his hair, clutching and tugging at the short strands insistently while he pleasured her in that way they both enjoyed.

As if he knew what she was thinking Andy’s eyes met hers, mutual appreciation and desire starting to flame. His lips brushed over hers in a kiss that started out tender, but quickly blazed, tongues tangling before he broke away to trail his mouth along her jaw. His words were muffled against her skin. “Is it wrong that I want to fuck you right before we go to church?”

“Andy---“Sharon’s breath caught in her chest, a wave a lust running through her veins. From the very beginning, Andy had proven to have an uncanny ability to throw her off balance in a way that was completely new to her.

He grinned, that lazy sexy half grin that did nothing to dampen her libido.

“It’s not wrong,” she said reaching out to grab the two ends of his tie. “But we can’t. We’re already dressed and we have to be down to dinner in a few minutes.”

Her hands were trembling as she began knotting his tie. Andy still wondered over the fact that he could have this kind of effect on her. Sharon presented such a self-contained reserve to the outside world, but on the inside, she was a warm, passionate, responsive woman, at least with him.

“There,” she said when she finished. She took a step back and admired her work. Suspenders in a cranberry and emerald paisley pattern held up Andy’s dark dress slacks and his green tie matched her dress. She’d watched him choose the green one over the cranberry one after seeing which dress she was wearing. Taking a step toward him, she couldn’t resist running the back of her fingertips over his cheek. “So handsome. You look like you stepped out of the pages of GQ.”

“Spoken like a true woman in love.” His smile widened until it brought out his dimples. Oh damn, the man was killing her.

“Spoken like a woman who tells the truth.”

Andy lifted her hand, toying with her engagement ring. He wondered if he would ever get used to seeing it there, or if it would ever stop giving him a thrill. Somehow, he doubted it. Other than his sobriety, he’d never worked as hard for anything in his life as he had to win Sharon Raydor’s heart. And he‘d never wanted anything more than to spend the rest of his life with her. That ring was the proof that somehow he‘d been able to do both.

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Colleen paused for a moment and stood back to take in the elegance of her fully set dining room table, extended by three leafs to accommodate the large family gathering. Everything was perfect, from the Irish linen and crystal to her best English lace fine china and silver. Red and white poinsettias surrounded by wreaths of holly created festive centerpieces and long flickering candle tapers added a touch of warmth .It had been a long time since she’d had her entire family home for Christmas and she was enjoying every minute of it.

“Okay everyone,” she called out. “Dinner’s ready.”

As the family made their way into the dining room, everyone was too focused on the food to notice that Andy and Sharon were slightly anxious and a bit fidgety. A large ham caramelized by brown sugar and dotted with cloves sat in the center surrounded by bowls of fluffy white mashed potatoes, steaming fresh green beans and almonds, gooey sweet potatoes, corn swimming in butter and a large casserole dish filled with the cheesy lasagna, it‘s top browned nicely.

“Okay,” William said, once everyone had found seating. “Who would like to say grace before I start carving this ham?”

Andy cleared his throat nervously. Sharon gave him an encouraging look and they both stood. “Before we say grace,” Andy began. “There’s uh, something Sharon and I would like to share with you.” He waited until everyone stopped chattering and turned to look at them expectantly before continuing. “Earlier this week, I asked this beautiful lady right here to marry me.”

Sharon wrapped her arm around Andy’s waist, almost melting into him.

“What did she say?” Ricky called out amongst the excited squeals.

With a smile that lit up her whole face, Sharon lifted her hand, finally showing off her beautiful diamond engagement ring.

Andy was beaming with pride. “Thank God, she said yes.”

With that affirmation, everyone jumped to their feet and surrounded them with laughter, hugs and kisses and plenty of admiration of Sharon’s ring.

“I can’t believe you kept this a secret all this time.” Emily admonished her mother as she examined the glittering diamonds.

“It’s only been a few days,” Sharon said. “And we thought it would be more special to do it tonight with everyone here.”

Christine pushed forward, arms crossed under her breasts. “Okay sis, now we want all the romantic details.”

“Sorry, I’m afraid that’s confidential.”

“Oh come on, Auntie Sharon,” Bridget wheedled.

"Yeah, come on Auntie Sharon,” Chris grinned. “At least tell us where he proposed.”

“Well…I suppose I can tell you that much.” In a touching gesture, Sharon rested her head lightly on Andy’s shoulder. “We had a lovely dinner sitting by the fireplace at the Inn and then he took me on a moonlit horse drawn sleigh ride up through the woods to this gorgeous gazebo. It was all lit up with white twinkling Christmas lights. That’s where he asked me.”

“Did you get down on one knee, Dad?” Nicole wanted to know.

“Of course I did. Gotta do things by the book with this lady.”

Sharon smiled tenderly at Andy. “It was all very romantic. The most romantic night of my life.” That drew a chorus of “Awwwsss….”

“Congratulations, son.” William put a hand out to take Andy’s in a firm handshake. “You be good to my girl.”

“Yes sir. Always.”

Colleen’s gaze moved from Andy back to Sharon. It was no wonder her daughter seemed to radiate love and happiness when she’d spoken of Andy and of their relationship, and that she‘d finally seemed at peace. Stepping forward she cupped Sharon’s lovely face in her palms. “Honey, I couldn’t be more pleased for you.” She kissed her child’s cheek and then turned to Andy opening her arms to him. “Welcome to the family, Andy” she said. And with that, she enveloped him in a warm embrace of acceptance.

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“Sharon this is delicious.” Andy took another helping of lasagna. “I can’t believe you made my mother’s lasagna.”

“Are you sure it’s good?”

“Just as good as Nonna Sylvia’s, even without the meatballs and sausage,” Nicole assured her.

“It’s delicious,” Ed said, shoveling in a mouthful, oblivious to the soft giggles as Christine’s eyes met Sharon’s across the table.

“So.” Ricky stabbed his fork into another slice of ham. “When’s the wedding?”

“Well.” Sharon grew uncharacteristically flustered as all eyes turned back to her and Andy. “We haven’t gotten that far yet. We've just become engaged. There are a few…things we need to work through.”

The table went silent, the joy of just a few moments ago dampened.

“What do you have to work through?” Ricky pushed. “I thought you said yes.”

“I did say yes. But, we need to decide where we can have the wedding.”

“What do you mean?” Emily was thoroughly confused. “Won’t you do it at St. Josephs?”

Colleen’s eyes met Sharon’s, devout Catholic to Catholic.

“Well, there’s a problem with that. Andy and I are both divorced Catholics. We can’t get married in the Catholic Church and if we get married outside the church we could be denied the sacraments.”

“Oh my God, when is the Church going to join the 21st century?”

“Ricky.” Sharon’s tone was one of warning, but it was Andy setting his hand over the frustrated young man’s and giving him a slight negative shake of the head that caused Ricky to step back from his argument.

“You know there’s a way around that,” Colleen said. “You could get an annulment.”

“We’ve discussed that,” Andy said. “But there are problems with that too.”

“I don’t think mom will have an issue with it,” Nicole said. “She’s been remarried a long time.”

“I don’t think she will either, but…”

“But Jack probably will.” Sharon finished for him. Before everyone could jump in with their opinions, especially her two biological children who were looking pretty outraged, Sharon cut them off. “Look, we’re happy, we’re engaged, and we’ll figure this out. Let’s just enjoy this moment.”

“Sharon’s right,” William said. “This is a happy day.” He lifted his glass in a toast. “To Andy and Sharon, the future Mr. and Mrs. Flynn.”

“Well…” Sharon hemmed, lifting her glass with everyone. “That’s still up for debate.”

With everyone clinking glasses and questioning Sharon on whether or not she would keep her last name no one noticed the pointed looks shared between Ricky, Emily and Nicole.

TBC

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giancarlonicoli · 4 years

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26 apr 2020 17:15

IL NECROLOGIO DEI GIUSTI – IN QUESTI BRUTTI GIORNI PERDIAMO ANCHE CLAUDIO RISI, 71 ANNI, REGISTA, SCENEGGIATORE, FRATELLO DI MARCO, FIGLIO DI DINO, NIPOTE DI NELO – SIMPATICO, INTELLIGENTE, ALLEGRO, SEMPRE DISPONIBILE, È MORTO PER LE COMPLICAZIONI DI UN BRUTTO INFARTO. HA DIRETTO UNA DELLE SERIE DI MAGGIOR SUCCESSO E CULTO DELLA TV ITALIANA, “I RAGAZZI DELLA 3A C”, 1987-89, IL NOSTRO “HAPPY DAYS” – VIDEO

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Marco Giusti per Dagospia

Ecco. In questi brutti giorni perdiamo anche Claudio Risi, 71 anni, regista, sceneggiatore, fratello di Marco, figlio di Dino, nipote di Nelo. Simpatico, intelligente, allegro, sempre disponibile, è morto per le complicazioni di un brutto infarto che lo aveva colpito ormai due mesi fa. Ha diretto una delle serie di maggior successo e culto della tv italiana, “I ragazzi della 3a C”, 1987-89, il nostro “Happy Days”, ben 33 episodi che lasciarono il segno tra i ragazzi cresciuti negli anni ’80, dove unì a un gruppo di fresche presenze, Fabio Ferrari, Fabrizio Bracconeri, Claudia Vegliante, Stefania Dadda, Sharon Gusberti, vecchi e gloriosi caratteristi del cinema vanziniano più bello, da Guido Nicheli a Nicoletta Elmi a Ennio Antonelli, con apparizioni strepitose di Dagmar Lassander, Max Turilli, Sabrina Ferilli, Jimmy il Fenomeno, Martine Brochard, Paolo Panelli. La serie venne anche premiata con due Telegatti.

Nato a Berna nel 1948, Claudio entrò giovanissimo nel cinema, seguendo il padre come assistente per tutti gli anni ’70 e ’80, in film come “Sono fotogenico”, “Sesso e volentieri”, “Fantasma d’amore”, “Dagobert”, lavorando anche con Mario Monicelli (“Vogliamo i colonnelli”), Carlo Di Palma (“Teresa la ladra”) e Franco Giraldi. Esordì nel cinema giovanil-vacanziero con il divertente e riuscito “Windsurf – IL vento nelle mani”, 1984, girato nella costa vicino a Sabaudia, con Pierre Cosso, Lara Lamberti, che si firmava Lara Nazinski, Urbano Barberini, un giovanissimo Alessandro Gassman, Paola Onofri, seguito da un primo tv movie, “Yesterday” con Jackie Basehart e dal giustamente celebre “I ragazzi della 3 C”.

Lontano dal cinema più impegnato del fratello Marco, provò con “Pugni di rabbia” con Ricky Memphis e Johara Farley, qualcosa di più duro, ma tornò presto a occuparsi di commedia con la serie tv “S.P.Q.R”, 1998, nata dopo il successo dell’omonimo film di Carlo Vanzina. Nelle 11 puntate della serie troviamo però un cast diverso rispetto al film, Antonello Fassari, Nino Frassica, Nadia Rinaldi, Cristiana Capotondi, con apparizioni di Alvaro Vitali, Gigi Marzullo, Guido Nicheli e di Elenoire Casalegno come Poppea. Girò poi il film tv “A caro prezzo”, 1999, con Cesare Bocci e, assieme al padre Dino, il documentario “Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala”, 2005, con interventi di Roberto Bolle. Negli ultimi anni, dopo la fine della coppia Boldi-De Sica, protagonisti dei cinepanettoni classici di Aurelio De Laurentiis, era stato chiamato a dirigere Massimo Boldi e un bel gruppo di comici in due film di un certo successo, “Matrimonio alle Bahamas” e “Matrimonio a Parigi”. Film molto liberi, pieni di energie, e molto divertenti.

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sportsleague365 · 4 years

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Tottenham Hotspur have reportedly opened discussions with Napoli to sign Arkadiusz Milik this summer. Jose Mourinho has identified Milik as a possible transfer target as he is currently holding contract talks with Napoli and the forward could leave the Azzurri in a matter of weeks if he refuses to agree to a contract extension. Football journalist Nicolo Schira tweeted the news on social media and this announcement was re-posted by Ricky Sacks. Milik has been in fine form for the Azzurri over the past couple of seasons but it appears he could be set for a shocking departure. Italian outlet Corriere dello Sport reported that the Italian giants are prepared to sell the striker in the upcoming transfer window after Dries Mertens signed a new contract earlier this week and they are looking for £45m to seal the deal. After arriving at the Stadio San Paolo from Ajax for £28.8m in 2016, the Polish international has enjoyed a prolific spell with Gennaro Gattuso’s side, scoring 46 goals in 109 appearances for the Naples-based club so far. Mourinho is in the market to find a backup to ease the burden on Spurs talisman Harry Kane and the Lilywhites have been linked to a number of European stars so far, including the likes of Victor Osimhen and Vedat Muriqi. As it stands, it seems unlikely that Tottenham will gain a place in the Champions League at the end of the season as Mourinho’s men are currently eighth in the Premier League, and the club would duly miss out on the lucrative rewards. Therefore, the board may be unable to meet Aurelio De Laurentiis’ steep asking price for Milik. Tottenham fans, do you think Daniel Levy should sign Milik before the start of next season? Let us know in the comments down below! Click here to comment on this articleorGive us feedback on your Football Transfer Tavern experience #SerieA #TottenhamHotspur #HarryKane

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apsbicepstraining · 7 years

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Old flames Mario Balotelli and Milan start to regret reviving the occasion | Paolo Bandini

Injury may have impeded Mario Balotellis return to Milan, but his attitude on the tar – rather than off it – has led to more the issue of his wasted talent

He is to say situations would be different. He told us he had changed his courses. Mario Balotelli told us all the words he thought we might want to hear as he rejoined Milanon loan this summer. Ive learned from my misunderstandings, he did. Ill grant everything. At one point, he even informed Gazzetta dello Sport that: I used to be a boy named Mario, but now Im Mario the man.

If he clanged like a spurned love trying to win back a lost spouses acceptance, then perhaps thats exactly what he was. Balotelli had adored Milan since he was a child, and was not the first to frame the relations between the two countries in romantic expressions. Adriano Galliani announced the strikers imminent return last-place August by telling reporters: Some affections never end.

The Rossoneris chief executive is notorious for his willingness to arouse old-time liaisons. Such players as Andriy Shevchenko, Ruud Gullit, Kak and Roberto Donadoni have varied the golf-club under his stewardship, only to proceed afterwards in their careers. None had already been recaptured anything like their best organize during their second stints with the team.

So why fus with Balotelli? He had never sparkled as brightly as the aforementioned wizards in the first instance. His ten-strike charge for Milan was robust with 26 goals tallied in 43 tournament images and hitherto he had faded following a bright initial six-month trance. It was Balotelli who salvaged a third-place finish for Milan after joining in January 2013, but he too who obtained 10 yellow placards and one red-faced while cutting a tetchy and isolated illustration during the following campaign.

Since then, he had weathered a dreadful time at Liverpool tallying only a single Premier League goal and falling behind Rickie Lambert in the pecking order. Milan fans were not exactly stirring for his recall. In information, there used to be whistlings at San Siro when Balotellis name was announced amongst the equivalents for the home opener against Empoli.

But there was some technique to Gallianis madness. Balotelli, unlike those previous high-profile returnees, was still in his mid-2 0s. Besides, this was only a loan with no cost fixed. In gist, Milan were going a risk-free experiment of a participate they had sold for 16 m a year earlier, and whose better seasons could still lie ahead.

The golf-clubs new administrator, additionally, had an existing relationship with Balotelli. Sinisa Mihajlovic had been an deputy at Inter back when the player was emerging from the Nerazzurris youth team. A private find was arranged between them before Milan signed off on the deal.

You will need to be the first to arrive and the last to leave, Mihajlovic was reported to have told Balotelli. You must ever give your all, otherwise I will make sure you find your suitcases waiting outside the gates of Milanello.

Balotelli seemed to have taken that word on board. He put in a swashbuckling cameo off the bench during a derby demolish to Inter before commemorating his first start with a fine free-kick destination to open the scoring in a 3-2 win over Udinese.

Just when his stellar was in the dominance, though, he was sidelined by a athletics hernia. The harm, which turned out to require an operation, took Balotelli out of action from September right through to mid-January.

When Balotelli reverted, he discovered that he was no longer needed. After a difficult firstly half to the season, Mihajlovic has at last received an attacking partnership that worked, MBaye Niangs range and readiness to float out and serve intersections from either side reaching him the perfect foil to Carlos Baccas penalty-box prowling.

Milan went nine recreations without defeat, surging back into the hasten for European regions. Where formerly Balotelli asked Why ever me? now he was instead turn left meditate Why never me? He averaged fewer than 13 times on the pitch in his first eight league games back from trauma, and failed to record a single aim or assist.

Mihajlovic was unsympathetic to propositions that Balotelli necessitated more substantial opportunities to make an impact. The number of minutes you have on the pitching do not thing, said the manager. You can be decisive even in five. He needs to show me that he has feeling and desire.

That final feeling was its most important one. Innovated for the succumbing instants of a 2-1 win over Genoa, Balotelli had been asked to lead the defensive endeavor from the figurehead but never broke out of a move. Merely a late intervention from Milans athletic manager, Antonio Bovenzi, deterred a frenzied Mihajlovic from storming over to make an example of his striker at full-time.

Sinisa Mihajlovic alleged Mario Balotelli is not yet amply fit. Photograph: Elisabetta Baracchi/ EPA

And yet, after Niang marred his ankle in a car accident last week, it was Balotelli to whom the manager grew. He may or may not be the most obvious selection. Jrmy Mnez, Milans preceding scorer in 2014 -1 5, has invested most of this season recuperating from a hernia of his own but started alongside Balotelli in the Coppa Italia semi-final second leg against Alessandria on Tuesday. The Frenchman touched a pair of goals during what became a 5-0 rout.

Balotelli grabbed one just as he had be done in order to the reverse fixture but his rendition again shortage dynamism or verve. Various newspapers determined him as the most difficult participate in a red-and-black shirt.

Mihajlovic persisted, selecting Balotelli to start alongside Bacca in Sundays match away to Sassuolo. Unlike third-tier Alessandria, these rivals were strong enough to give Milan real concerns. Just six points behind the Rossoneri at kick-off, Sassuolo had won both home editions of this fixture since their promotion to the top-flight in 2013.

They would soon make it three out of three. After taking the extend through a beautifully taken destination from Alfred Duncan in the 27 th instant, Sassuolo never looked at risk of going pegged back. Nicola Sansone shaped the score 2-0 under contentious situations late on, his team-mate Davide Biondini fortunate not to have been penalise for a pollute on Andrea Bertolacci in the buildup, but Milans legitimate grievances over that incident could not mask their own drawbacks in attack.

Balotelli and Bacca never appeared in sync as partnership agreements, the former is inadequate to fill wide cavities and give junctions as Niang might. If the lack of cohesion was comprehensible, given the two players scant ordeal of playing together, then Balotellis indifferent body language and failure to impose himself on his own terms were harder to justify. He did not touch the dance once in Sassuolos penalty country, and was subbed off in the 55 th minute.

His replacement, Mnez, did not fare much better. Mihajlovic claimed subsequentlies that neither player is hitherto at full fitness, but that disagreement is becoming harder to immerse. Almost two months have gone by since Balotelli moved his first post-injury illusion, against Fiorentina. This was the first tournament pair he had started since then, and likewise the first one Milan have lost.

We cannot accuse his conflicts on extra-curricular distractions. With the exception of one crude gesture made towards Napoli supporters who collected outside Milans hotel to abuse him last-place month, Balotellis behaviour has been beyond reproach. He has saved his head down, bided out of the gossip line and adhered diligently to riders Milan be incorporated in his contract governing conduct, social media use and even personal grooming.

But the cold reality is that he has achieved little on the tone so far to reassure Milan that this relationship was worth revitalizing. He had recently 10 competitions left in which to do so, and is unlikely to play in all of those unless his actions sharpen up swiftly.

Balotelli may experience annoyed by the timing of his hernia, which cost him force at a time when the picture was beginning to look a little more positive. He would not be the first lonely soul, though, has found that the success or flop of any love affair can come down to a matter of timing.

Talking points

No change at the top, with Juventus maintaining their three-point produce over Napoli after both teams won. The Partenopei will be happy to have Gonzalo Higuan back among the goals after recent overblown reactions to the striker leading four recreations without one. None was more liable on that figurehead, of course, than Napolis owner, Aurelio De Laurentiis, who were of the view that Higuan needed to lose a kilo and a half in order to get back to his early season formation. Was there more to such a comment than a clumsy attempt to motivate a stellar participate? Knowing De Laurentiis, you surely would not bet against it. He has been at loggerheads with Higuan for some time over the players refusal to extend a contract which ranges to 2018, and there was a smell here of the public reviews he levelled against Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson Cavani before the latter are each sell off Paris Saint-Germain.

Gianluigi Buffon has not let in a Serie A destination for 836 instants. Image: Giorgio Perottino/ Reuters

Another clean sheet for Gigi Buffon, who has now disappeared 836 instants without admitting a goal in Serie A, establishing his the third-longest such streak in its own history of the Italian top flight. The only actors left to overtake are Dino Zoff, who lasted 903 hours in 1972 -7 3, and Sebastiano Rossi, who exited 929 hours for Milan in 1993 -9 4. It is no foregone conclusion that Buffon will catch them; next up for Juventus are Sassuolo, who have won three directly. The Old Lady wobbled for a spell against Atalanta on Sunday, and there was a period – before Mario Lemina gave the game beyond doubt with this excellent goal – when even the succes was searching far away from secure at 1-0.

Could Roma hitherto have a say in the claim race? An eight part spread to commanders Juventus will not be easily bridged, but Luciano Spallettis side have at least demonstrated themselves as the next challenger in line behind Napoli after blowing away Fiorentina on Friday. The Giallorossi have now won seven straight-from-the-shoulder in the conference and the tempo of Mohamed Salah and Stephan El Shaarawy exclusively examined more devastating this week with Diego Perotti drawing the fibres in a No10 role.

The relegation scrap just got a whole lot tighter, with only one point dispersing Palermo and Frosinone after the Sicilians lost to Inter and the Canarini acquired at home to Udinese. Where Palermo are without a triumph in seven coincides, Frosinone have won half of their last-place six.

Verona, though, might be finished when he was threshed 3-0 at home to Sampdoria – who are finally putting some distance( or, at the least, some more squads) between themselves and the relegation zone.

Results: Atalanta 0-2 Juventus, Bologna 0-0 Carpi, Frosinone 2-0 Udinese, Genoa 1-0 Empoli, Inter 3-1 Palermo, Napoli 3-1 Chievo, Roma 4-1 Fiorentina, Sassuolo 2-0 Milan, Torino 1-1 Lazio, Verona 0-3 Sampdoria

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About the dead having available to them all breeds of knowledge, some pure, others wicked, especially what is future, and the history that remains once the waters recede, revealing the land that couldn’t reject or contain it, and the land that is not new, is indigo, is ancient, lived as all the trees that fit and clothe it are lived, simple pine, oak, grand magnolia, he said they frighten him, that what they hold in their silences silences: sometimes a boy will slip from his climbing, drown but the myth knows why, sometimes a boy will swing with the leaves.

Ricky Laurentiis

#poetry #southern #southern gothic #ricky laurentiis #going home makes me feel things about stuff

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Tu Fu, “Thoughts While Traveling at Night” There’s a wind in the grass — Is there here a boat’s mast claiming my lonely night too? I see the stars can’t be called hanged, exactly, just hanging down, not over emptiness, but honest ground, the moon trying the black skin of this river, black corpse ... But, even plainer— I wonder if these words, my words, will ever bring me fame. I have my age, my injuries. They limit me. I’m like some spook bird I know, solo and roped between where rotting happens and a sky.

Ricky Laurentiis, “Study in Black”

#ricky laurentiis #study in black #poetry

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Star, October 21

Cover: Jennifer Aniston is dating again

Page 1: Angelina Jolie’s kids are all grown up

Page 2: Contents, Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone

Page 3: Abby Lee Miller, Tori Spelling, Lin-Manuel Miranda

Page 4: Julia Roberts is keeping a wary eye on husband Danny Moder as he shoots a movie with bad boy Sean Penn

Page 5: Anorexia fears for 85-pound Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Garner’s insomnia blues, Harry Styles has been staying up late composing moody tunes for his new album and his wineglass runneth over

Page 6: Demi Lovato faces backlash over spiritual trip to Israel, Paula Abdul’s cosmetic procedure confessions, Star Spots the Stars -- AJ McLean and Carrie Underwood, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nikki Reed, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, Kristin Chenoweth, Tyler Cameron, Lance Bass, Olivia Palermo

Page 8: Star Shots -- Natalie Portman, Melanie Griffith and her mother Tippi Hedren, Bradley Cooper and daughter Lea

Page 9: Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, Charlize Theron in costume at Disneyland

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Page 26: Sofia Richie and Scott Disick -- wedding and a baby

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Page 30: Cover Story -- Jennifer Aniston is ready for love again

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tispityshesasmore · 9 years

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Ricky Laurentiis, ‘Southern Gothic’

#poetry #ricky laurentiis #southern gothic #american poetry #21st century

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davidlavieri · 9 years

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I wonder if these words, my words, will ever bring me fame. I have my age, my injuries. They limit me. I’m like some spook bird I know, solo and roped between where rotting happens and a sky.

Ricky Laurentiis, "Study in Black"

#ricky laurentiis #laurentiis #poem #poetry #study in black #disappointment #age #aging #life #meaning #words #lit

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NON C'È PIÙ LA NOSTALGIA DI UNA VOLTA - L'INTERVISTA DI DOTTO A VANZINA (2015): ''MI FA INNERVOSIRE QUANDO MI CHIAMANO 'MAESTRO'. MAESTRO DEI MIEI COGLIONI. MONICA BELLUCCI? L’HO LANCIATA IO IN UN FILM DI MARCO RISI. MAI AVREI PENSATO CHE SAREBBE DIVENTATA UNA STAR INTERNAZIONALE, NON È CERTO MERYL STREEP'' - ''SERVILLO? TEMO SIA UNO SNOBBONE E CI VEDA COME IL DIAVOLO'' - ''ECCO LA MIA CAZZATA PIÙ MEMORABILE''

Giancarlo Dotto per ''Diva & Donna'' (2015)

Figli di Steno, alias Stefano Vanzina, che vuol dire figli della commedia all’italiana. Tenuti in grembo da Totò e da Alberto Sordi, come dire tenuti in grembo dal destino, hanno inventato in quasi quarant’anni, tra gli altri, Diego Abatantuono e Jerry Calà e reinventato Gigi Proietti, miracolato Massimo Boldi e Christian De Sica, ma anche Raoul Bova, lanciato Claudio Amendola e Isabella Ferrari, Enrico Brignano e Vincenzo Salemme, scoperto Ricky Memphis e, questo lo sanno in pochi, Monica Bellucci.

In quanto a nazionalpopolarità, i fratelli Vanzina se la battono in Italia con i fratelli Abbagnale e i fratelli Bandiera. Come campioni di box office non hanno rivali. Che siano cineombrelloni o cinepanettoni, piacciono a tutti o quasi, agli spettatori che si sganasciano, agli attori che girano in fretta e ai produttori che con loro risparmiano. Non piacciono a certa forforosa saccenza. Carlo è il regista, Enrico lo sceneggiatore. Inchiodo l’iperattivo Carlo Vanzina a Porto Rotondo con la famiglia, la moglie Lisa e le figlie Isotta e Assia, in una pausa di lavoro. Sta ultimando il montaggio di “Torno indietro e cambio vita”, il suo ultimo film.

“E’ la storia di una coppia esemplare all’apparenza. Stanno insieme da quando erano ragazzi. Poi, un giorno, a letto, lei, Giulia Michelini, dice a lui, Raoul Bova: “Mi voglio separare”. Lui si confida con l’amico, Ricky Memphis: “Col cavolo che mi risposerei se tornassi indietro”. Mentre lo dice, viene investito da una macchina e si risveglia nel cortile della scuola. L’occasione di riscrivere la sua vita. Una storia all’americana”.

E’ grazie alla ditta Vanzina che Raoul Bova ha trovato la sua dimensione come attore.

“L’ho lanciato più di vent’anni fa con “Piccolo grande amore”. Quando era un ragazzo di bell’aspetto e poco più”.

Vent’anni dopo?

“Raoul è un ragazzo riflessivo e scrupoloso. Cosciente che questa sua popolarità va sfruttata in maniera professionale. Cerca personaggi positivi. Lui non si sente per niente un latin lover. Ha trovato questa chiave di prendersi un po’ in giro”.

Ricky Memphis, un altro che si può definire tuo. Lui sì è una faccia.

“Ha iniziato con me. Protagonista con Amendola e la Bellucci de “I mitici”. Anche qui, roba di vent’anni fa. Ricky è fantastico. Lui, come attore, è il contrario del metodo. Ma ha questa faccia che dice tutto, questa sua malinconia di fondo”.

Come succede per molti attori importanti, faccia monouso. Faccia iconica e laconica.

“Ricky è così. Parla poco ma, quando, lo fa sono sentenze”.

I fratelli Vanzina. Carlo ed Enrico sono per l’Italia, insieme ai fratelli Taviani, quello che i fratelli Coen, ma direi soprattutto i fratelli Farrelly sono per l’America e i fratelli Ardenne per il Belgio.

“Ce ne sono tanti altri nel cinema. Aggiungerei i fratelli Wachowski, quelli di “Matrix”. Andy e Larry. Solo che Larry nel frattempo è diventato donna e ora si chiama Lana”.

Di questi tempi si è, cinematograficamente parlando, già a Natale.

“Produrremo insieme a Andrea Occhipinti un film scritto a sei mani con Neri Parenti che scombinerà gli equilibri classici del Natale, fondati sulla triade De Laurentiis, Medusa e Rai Cinema”.

Suona come una sfida temeraria.

“Una scommessa vera. Siamo partiti con i soldi nostri, senza finanziamenti. Potremmo scompaginare il mercato o prendere una batosta”.

Il futuro sta finalmente diventando presente? Si aprono nuove frontiere e nuovi mercati anche nel cinema.

“Sta cambiando tutto. La tecnologia è andata talmente avanti. La pay tv è la nuova frontiera. C’è un grande bisogno di contenuti. Purtroppo, noi autori commerciali siamo stati colpevolmente miopi”.

Sarebbe a dire?

“Cedere i diritti delle nostre opere ai vari De Laurentiis, Medusa e Rai. Oggi il mondo è globale, avere delle tue cose è decisivo. La gente pensa che noi Vanzina siamo miliardari...”.

Lo pensavo anch’io.

“Invece non lo siamo. Anzi, se me ne trovi tu uno che vuole investire nel cinema”.

Tempi di rievocazioni. Il remake del vostro celebre “Sapore di mare”.

“Più che un remake, abbiamo tentato un nuovo capitolo ambientato negli anni Ottanta. Un buon film che non ha avuto l’attenzione giusta. Ci sono rimasto male. Chissà, forse il titolo sbagliato, “Sapore di te”. Forse, non è scattata la nostalgia”.

Non c’è più la nostalgia di una volta.

“Oggi la gente è tutta proiettata nel futuro, se ne frega del passato”.

Quanto sono importanti i titoli?

“Sono più importanti i trailer. I ragazzi li guardano e scelgono, anche se vanno sempre di meno al cinema. Le mie due figlie, di quindici e sedici anni, non ci vanno proprio”.

Lavorate sempre con Enrico nello studio di papà Steno?

“Che poi era il salotto di casa. Scrivevano le sceneggiature e registravano con un vecchio Geloso a bobine. A quel tavolo si sono seduti Totò, Alberto Sordi, Aldo Fabrizi, Ettore Scola, Scarpelli. Tanti altri. Una factory continua”.

Enrico e tu. Quasi quarant’anni di cinema insieme.

“Un giorno, mi chiama un giornalista e mi fa: “Sono trent’anni che stai facendo il regista”. Non me n’ero accorto. Mi sono sentito vecchio improvvisamente. Adesso, sono quasi quaranta. Una cosa che mi fa innervosire è quando mi chiamano “maestro”.

Perché?

“È brutto. Maestro dei miei coglioni”.

A quale sei più affezionato, tra i personaggi inventati?

“Penso a Donato, il tifoso milanista di Diego Abatantuono. Un personaggio di culto. Come il Mandrake di Gigi Proietti in “Febbre da cavallo”, inventato da mio padre e riproposto da noi”.

Un Gigi Proietti meraviglioso nella parte del cialtrone che s’inventa la vita.

“La cosa meravigliosa di Gigi è che, dopo Gassman e Bene, è il nostro attore teatrale più completo. Passa da Shakespeare alle barzellette. Un grande attore che non disdegna il basso”.

C’è chi lo considera il suo limite.

“Per me è il suo più ammirevole talento”

È l’ultimo dei mohicani. Non così capito dal cinema.

“Sembrava sempre che dovesse esplodere, ma non ce la faceva e allora si rifugiava nel teatro. Gigi è sempre stato schivo con il cinema. Aveva una faccia, come dire, “facciosa”. Una faccia troppo importante. Talmente bravo che non risultava credibile”.

Percorsi stupefacenti tra gli attori da te lanciati.

“Diego Abatantuono. Da macchietta da cabaret è diventato un attore importante. Ha dimostrato uno spessore che neanche immaginavo. Diego ha una presenza scenica dominante. È un affabulatore. Ma, anche un accentratore. Gli piace comandare tutto”.

Altre storie sorprendenti.

“Monica Bellucci. L’ho lanciata io in un film di Marco Risi. Lei, devo dire, me l’ha riconosciuto pubblicamente e gliene sono grato. Mai mi sarei aspettato che sarebbe diventata una star internazionale. È una brava attrice, ma non è Meryl Streep”.

Un grandissimo attore che ha non ha avuto la storia che meritava.

“Maurizio Micheli. Attore meraviglioso che, non so perché, non è mai riuscito a fare la carriera che gli spettava”.

Ritorni, dopo tanti anni, a lavorare con Massimo Boldi.

“Massimo ha tentato la strada di una sua casa di produzione. E’ andata male. Potevamo fare ancora tante cose insieme. Succede solo da noi che gli attori, a un certo punto, s’inventano di voler fare tutto, gli agenti, i registi, i produttori. Fai l’attore? Basta e avanza”.

Sono noiosi i comici?

“Sono per lo più malinconici e invidiosi. Fanno eccezione, tra quelli che conosco, Christian De Sica e Carlo Verdone”.

Roberto Benigni resta il nostro unico attore esportabile?

“Da quando l’ho detto, però non ha fatto più niente. Mi ha sconfessato. Come se gli fosse venuta l’angoscia da Oscar, di non essere più all’altezza di quel film”.

Il film di Paolo Sorrentino ti è piaciuto?

“Molto. Con qualche lungaggine, ma mi è rimasto dentro. La scena sulla terrazza, il ballo, la faccia di Toni Servillo”.

Toni Servillo con i Vanzina. Questa sì, sarebbe un’accoppiata sorprendente.

“Mi piacerebbe tanto averlo con me. Potrebbe fare il comico benissimo”.

L’ho visto a teatro in uno spettacolo goldoniano. Bravissimo.

“Non lo conosco di persona. Mi sembra uno snobbone. Mi sa che i Vanzina per lui sono come il diavolo. Troppo commerciali”.

Assegna i tuoi Oscar alla commedia italiana.

“Monicelli, Risi, Age e Scarpelli, Ettore Scola. Per il film scelgo “I soliti ignoti”. L’Oscar per l’attore lo spartisco ex-aequo tra Sordi, Gassman e Totò”.

Ti rumina l’idea di suggellare una storia importante con un capolavoro, tipo “C’era una volta il West” di Sergio Leone, anche lui fin lì considerato un regista di genere?

“Ti confesso, è proprio quello che c’è nella mia testa. Ci ho anche provato in passato. Un film con Gian Maria Volontè, quando era già un mostro sacro. Ma, in Italia l’etichetta ti condanna. Ho idee importanti, ma mi autocensuro. Dovrei trovare uno pseudonimo per fare un film fuori dal cliché dei Vanzina”.

I Vanzina. Siete, nel bene e nel male, un marchio.

“Ci vorrebbero un’idea internazionale, finanziamenti stranieri. Il vero guaio è che il nostro cinema è molto piccolo. Qui da noi è una palude, tutto stagnante, fermo”.

Checco Zalone ti piace?

“Tantissimo. Mi diverte. E’ un comicone”.

Diversi film con Enrico Brignano. Poi, più nulla.

“Aspirava a fare l’assolo. Anche lui, questa ambizione di voler fare tutto. Faccia pure. E’ cambiato. Non è più allegro, né pacioccone. E’ diventato cicciotto. Del resto, ognuno ha la faccia che ha. Certo, Brignano non può fare Mastroianni”.

Tra te e tuo fratello chi affronta meglio il tempo che passa?

“Non ce la siamo mai detta questa cosa. Forse io. Sai, l’idea che potrò sopravvivere nella mia famiglia, che qualcosa di me resterà, un piccolo seme”.

La famiglia. Il tuo ancoraggio.

“Che poi non è solo la mia, ma quella molto estesa della tribù Melidoni. In questi giorni è il compleanno di Gianni, famoso giornalista e padre di Lisa. In queste occasioni ci riuniamo tutti. Un esercito. Posti in piedi”.

Il tuo spazio sacro. Dove ci sei solo tu. Niente mogli, figli, fratelli.

“La fedeltà a me stesso. Del successo non me ne frega niente. M’importa solo essere quello che i miei genitori si aspettavano da me. Una persona rispettosa, educata, perbene. Questo non me lo può togliere nessuno”.

Una cazzata memorabile, da inserire nell’enciclopedia delle umane cazzate.

“Tante. Come l’imbarcata che presi a diciotto anni per una svedese conosciuta in Sardegna. Una ragazza da sogno. Partii come un pazzo per la Svezia in macchina e scoprii che era fidanzata. Una batosta, ma quel viaggio mi servì a farmi sentire un po’ Kerouac”.

Il tuo cast ideale pensando al futuro.

“Un sogno mai realizzato. Lavorare un giorno con Carlo Verdone. Mi dispiace l’idea di chiudere la mia storia senza poterlo fare. Mi troverei bene, sono sicuro, anche con Checco Zalone”.

Il tuo cast ideale pensando al passato.

“Ho un grande rammarico. Mi farebbe piacere, prima di andare all’ospizio, fare di nuovo un film con Boldi e De Sica insieme”.

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