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Rainbow
Forgive the lack of poetry, but Umberto does have a point! Rainbows are an optical illusion, letting us think that there is something there, when actually there is not!! Aloha to everyone !!! HPA
Bad Teachers
After over 30 years in RAI, I really appreciate that my name is still being used to catch audience's attention on Italian TV. I have been told that every summer Techetechetè is broadcasting my comedy sketches and musical dance numbers,...
Eccesso di italinismo
Per @matteosalvinimi "Cicale" è di @LCuccarini (sigh!). Eccesso di zelo per contraccambiare gli apprezzamenti ricevuti? Forse, sicuramente eccesso di italianismo. HPA
Kill Em With Kindness
We must begin to treat others with respect and try to extinguish the fire of hatred and intolerance towards others that is raging everywhere.Adults have enormous responsibilities towards the growing generations.In the United States, as in China or...
Women's Role in the Italian Society
A few weeks ago I received a letter from the Petrarch Committee, which is made up of an informal group of citizens that aim to promote the development of the adjacent area at Viale Certosa and Viale Espinasse, in the north-western outskirts of...
Brava, anzi bravissima
In my career I have always loved having, by my side, great dancers because dancing is not a sport where you compete to win. It's ART to share with someone who can be at your level. And every dancer knows his talent. Rivalry in my career? Not at...
Why
The real question we all ask ourselves is not "who" or "how" but "why" ! There is a "why" hidden in all things leading to another "why", which suggest a tiny unexpected "why", from which it is likely to be another, brand new and just born "why"....
A Smile after the Hurricane ....
Hong Kong, September 17th, 2018 Children are unparalleled and phenomenal with their mental elasticity. They pass from one moment of terror, to joy, within minutes, as if turning the page of a book. It isn’t easy explaining Elizabeth...
Victim of Italy’s unbendingly patriarchal society
Asia Argento is a “victim of Italy’s unbendingly patriarchal society”. It was written in an article of The New York Times by Elisabetta Povoledo, as well as other American newspapers, appalled by “the broad and...
Heather vs. Haters
I started Instagram because I have a visceral passion for photographs. A picture, for me, in the mind’s eye, becomes first to every divine awareness. In the beginning Instagram for me, was only images. Slowly, slowly, it became much...
The sunset boulevard
There is a crazy guy on the Social Network that is pretending to be Stefano Gabbana or, Stefano Gabbana has decided to declare to the entire world, by using the Social Network, the announcement of his precocious senile dementia. The...
L'indignazione ipocrita del popolo del web quando non mi alzo in piedi
A chi ipocritamente si indigna quando non mi alzo in piedi. In inglese si chiama "Standing Ovation". È il gesto di alzarsi in piedi in una occasione speciale, in omaggio a una persona alla quale si riconoscono meriti...
Fermate questo gioco al massacro
Ignorare il male equivale ad esserne complici (Martin Luther King). Anche in questa settimana ho assistito incredula a una violenza nei confronti miei e della mia famiglia che non ha nessuna giustificazione. Ne è complice chi la ignora, chi...