February 28, 2024
Honorary traffic policeman. Voice actor. Actor. Conductor (par excellence). A television life always in via Teulada, always on Rai. Never, in over 40 years of TV, has there been a distraction (which is called Mediaset). Giancarlo Magalli has always been a face of Mamma Rai, even if he doesn’t have his own program after many years on “I fatti tue”. And he, in a lengthy interview with “Il Corriere della Sera”, talks about everything. Including Rai (and Adriana Volpe). «The healthy part of the company are those who work there, artists and technicians. The problems are in Viale Mazzini, with these managers constantly changing. They arrive without knowing where to put their hands, as soon as they learn, they take them off”, thunders Magalli. A life always on the front line, in front of the cameras.
At school with Mario Draghi, in the tourist villages he discovers Fiorello. The performances in college with Verdone (“he imitated everyone”, says Magalli) and De Sica. It arrives on TV by chance: love at first life. A very long love. The friendship with Arbore, Gianni Boncompagni, Raffaella Carrà and Pippo Baudo: the giants of TV. Now, however, after the illness that struck him some time ago, Magalli doesn’t want the Saturday night show. He just wants to go back to where he was, there in his place. The friendship with Michele Guardì, mind of “I fatti tue”, is firmly in the face of those who think there is friction. Magalli is TV, but at the same time also entertainment. He is also the man who knows how to do interviews (in Piazza Italia, the studio of Guardì’s program on Rai2 has done thousands of them over the years): current affairs, news, entertainment: he knows how to talk about the world that flows by. In short, he is a safe used car. Guaranteed. «I was ill and when I returned my programs had been given to others. After 60 years of militancy – with Arbore I am the only one who has ever gone to Mediaset – I expected more. I’m not asking for Saturday night on Raiuno, a second evening was enough. Renzo works again, older than me, Chiambretti also returns, the young shoots don’t work, with some there is therapeutic fury.” Magalli doesn’t dream of Sanremo, and says: «It will be a death trap, after 5 years of triumphs with Amadeus. One share point less and they’ll write that it was a flop. Some who propose have already done so and it went badly, why do they insist? The Festival is like your wedding night: if you go well, you’ve done your duty. If you do badly, he’ll hold it against you for the rest of your life.”
2024-02-28 17:14:00
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