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theartsdesk in Milan: Death of a Quiz Show Host | reviews, news & interviews

theartsdesk in Milan: Death of a Quiz Show Host

theartsdesk in Milan: Death of a Quiz Show Host

Italy mourns Silvio Berlusconi's TV alter-ego

Italy's quiz-show host Mike Bongiorno: 'a Warholian genius for fascinating, entrancing dullness'
Guarda, è come se fosse morta la regina Elisabetta, sai?” I didn’t really need the comparison with the hypothetical demise of our own beloved monarch to be spelled out for me by my partner, a somewhat reserved professor of Paediatric Neurology at one of Rome’s leading hospitals, in order to drive home the deep shock engendered by the sudden death of Italy’s best-loved veteran TV compère on the collective psyche of a nation.
Guarda, è come se fosse morta la regina Elisabetta, sai?” I didn’t really need the comparison with the hypothetical demise of our own beloved monarch to be spelled out for me by my partner, a somewhat reserved professor of Paediatric Neurology at one of Rome’s leading hospitals, in order to drive home the deep shock engendered by the sudden death of Italy’s best-loved veteran TV compère on the collective psyche of a nation.

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