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Quelli Della Notte
''Quelli della notte'' was an Italian late night variety show, broadcast on Rai 2 in 1985. Created and hosted by Renzo Arbore, it lasted 33 episodes.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996–2003. pp. 574–575. . A parody of serious talk shows, it started with an audience of 800,000 people and raised up to 3 million and a 51% share.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996–2003. pp. 574–575. . Its cast included Nino Frassica, Maurizio Ferrini, Riccardo Pazzaglia, Marisa Laurito, Roberto D'Agostino, Simona Marchini, Giorgio Bracardi, Massimo Catalano, Gianni Mazza.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996–2003. pp. 574–575. . Andy Luotto André Paul "Andy" Luotto (born 30 July 1950) is an American actor, comedian, musician, chef, and restaurateur. He has resided in Italy since the mid-1970s, where he is a prolific tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai 2
Rai 2 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting ''TG2'' news bulletins, talk shows, reality television, drama series, sitcoms and infotainment. In the 1980s it was known for its political affiliation to the Italian Socialist Party, it has shifted recently its focus towards the youth, including in its schedule reality shows, entertainment, TV series, news, knowledge and sports. The second television channel in Italy, it was launched on 4 November 1961, seven years after RAI's first channel was launched on 3 January 1954. The channel was initially referred to as "Secondo Programma". It received other names, such as "Rete 2" and "Rai Due" until it adopted its current name "Rai 2". Its direct competitor to Mediaset's Italia 1. It is also a state-owned channel like Rai 1. Logo File:Logo Raidue 1983.svg, 3 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renzo Arbore
Lorenzo Giovanni "Renzo" Arbore (; born 24 June 1937) is an Italian television host, singer, actor and film director. Career Arbore became nationally recognized as radio anchor man, together with Gianni Boncompagni, in the late 1960s, with shows such as ''Bandiera gialla ''(1965), ''Per voi giovani ''(1967), ''Alto Gradimento ''(1970), increasingly marked by their ironical approach which later became one of their brands. He debuted in Italian television with ''Speciale per voi ''(1969–1970), which included debates about singers of that age. His first great TV success was the surreal ''L'altra domenica ''("The Other Sunday", 1976–1979), in which he launched numerous comedians including Mario Marenco, Isabella Rossellini and Roberto Benigni. Also very successful were ''Quelli della notte ''(1985), with Nino Frassica, Riccardo Pazzaglia, Maurizio Ferrini, and Roberto D'Agostino, and ''Indietro tutta!''(1988), again with Frassica, which established Arbore as one of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata
The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA; literally "National Associated Press Agency") is the leading news agency in Italy. ANSA is a not-for-profit cooperative, whose members and owners are 36 leading news organizations in Italy. Its mission is the distribution of fair and objective news reporting. History In January 1945, three representatives of the major political forces of the Italian Resistance, Giuseppe Liverani, managing director of "Il Popolo" (The People), Primo Parrini, managing director of Avanti!, and Amerigo Terenzi, CEO of L'Unità, advanced the possibility to organize a news agency as a cooperative of newspapers, not controlled by the government nor private groups, replacing the work of the Agenzia Stefani, moved to Milan to meet the information needs of the Italian Social Republic. Their proposal had the approval from the Allied military authorities who, a few months later, favored the success of the new agency by closing the Italian ''Notizie Nazioni Unite' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Frassica
Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor, Duke of Gela and television personality. Biography and career Born in Messina, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language". He is considered "a master of nonsense humour" (but only in the summer). He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's ''Quelli della notte'' (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show ''Indietro tutta!'' (lit. ''Full speed backwards!'', 1987). Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as ''Il Bi e il Ba'' (1986), and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series ''Don Matteo''. Selected filmography Films *'' "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?"' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Ferrini
Maurizio Ferrini (born 12 April 1953) is an Italian actor and television personality. Biography Ferrini was born in Cesena in 1953. He made his artistic debut in ''Quelli della Notte'', starring alongside Renzo Arbore and establishing himself as an eccentric comedian. During the show's airing, he was known for his trademark ''Non capisco, ma mi adeguo'' (in English, ''I can't understand, but I adapt myself''). Afterwards, Ferrini went to participate in ''Domenica in'', during the 1989–1990 edition, where he created, and played en travesti, the character of ''Mrs Emma Coriandoli'', a humoristic take on Italian housewives. During the early 2000s he appeared in TV shows only occasionally, as a guest, until in 2005 Simona Ventura offered him to participate in the reality show '' L'Isola dei Famosi'', where he achieved second place with 25% of the audience's preferences. In 2007, he played a minor role in the drama ''Ma chi l'avrebbe mai detto'' acting alongside Ornella Muti and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Pazzaglia
Riccardo Pazzaglia (12 September 1926 – 4 October 2006) was an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter, songwriter (for Domenico Modugno), TV and radio personality. Born in Naples, Pazzaglia graduated in direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He entered the film industry as an assistant director and screenwriter, specializing in adventure and comedy films. Pazzaglia made his directional debut with ''L'onorata società'', starring the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio, whom he also directed in ''Farfallon''. After some years of hiatus, Pazzaglia got a personal success thanks to his participation to the Renzo Arbore's variety show ''Quelli della notte''. He later reprised his film activities, collaborating to the screenplays of some films by Luciano De Crescenzo Luciano De Crescenzo (; 18 August 1928 – 18 July 2019) was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer. Biography Born in Naples, he grew up with actor Bud Spencer. De Cresce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Laurito
Marisa Laurito (born 19 April 1951) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. Life and career Born in Naples, Laurito debuted at a very young age entering the stage company of Eduardo De Filippo.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni, ''Enciclopedia della Televisione'', Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . She obtained large popularity with Renzo Arbore's variety show ''Quelli della notte'', and then went on to host several TV-programs, including two editions of the RAI Saturday night show '' Fantastico''. In 1989 she entered the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Il babà è una cosa seria", ranking twelfth.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . Laurito is also author of several cookbooks. Selected filmography * '' Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe'' (1976) * ''L'Italia s'è rotta'' (1976) * '' The Payoff'' (1978) * ''Gegè Bellavita'' (1978) * '' Odds and Evens'' (1978) * '' Café Express'' (1980) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Marchini
Simona Marchini (born 19 December 1941) is an Italian actress, television and radio presenter, stage director, comedian and art dealer. Life and career Born in Rome, the daughter of the businessman Alvaro, Marchini graduated in modern literature at La Sapienza University. An art lover, since 1966 she directed several art galleries, notably directing the Contemporary Art Gallery "Nuova Pesa" between 1985 and 1995.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . After an intense stage career as actress and director, in 1980 she made her television debut as a comedian in the RAI variety show ''A tutto gag'', and appeared in character roles in some comedy films. In 1985 she had her breakout thanks to her participation to Renzo Arbore's ''Quelli della notte''. Marchini later hosted several television and radio programs, including ''Prossimamente non stop'', ''Pronto, è la Rai?'' and ''Piacere Raiuno''. She was also on the board of the Teatro d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bracardi
Giorgio Bracardi (born 3 May 1933) is an Italian actor, composer and stand-up comedian. Life and career Born in Rome, the older brother of the actor, pianist and composer Franco, for many years Bracardi worked around the world as a piano player (accompanying, among others, Maurice Chevalier and José Feliciano) and performing as an entertainer. He became famous in 1970, thanks to the radio variety show of Renzo Arbore and Gianni Boncompagni ''Alto gradimento'' ("''High liking''"), where he gave voice to some absurd and surreal characters such as Scarpantibus, Max Vinella, the Colonel Buttiglione and the hierarch Catenacci. Later Bracardi created other grotesque and very original characters and appeared in numerous television shows. He starred in several movies, in some cases even as the leading actor. In 2008 he dubbed Cattivik in the eponymous animated series broadcast by Mediaset Mediaset Italia S.p.A., also known as Mediaset, is an Italian-based mass media company whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Mazza
Gianni Mazza (born 5 October 1944) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, singer and television personality. Born Giovanni Mazza in Rome, Mazza started his career as a musician in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he started composing film and television scores and participated as conductor at the Sanremo Music Festival in 1974 and in 1979. In the 1980s he became a popular television personality thanks to the participation as a conductor and a showman to some variety shows written and hosted by Renzo Arbore. In 1991 he entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual ... as a singer with the ironical song "Il lazzo". References Further reading * Christian Calabrese. "Mazza e il lazzo di Sanremo". ''Musica leggera'', n° 7. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Luotto
André Paul "Andy" Luotto (born 30 July 1950) is an American actor, comedian, musician, chef, and restaurateur. He has resided in Italy since the mid-1970s, where he is a prolific television personality, and is the owner and operator of the Lá restaurant in Rome's Piazza Venezia. Biography Born as André Paul Luotto in New York, Luotto graduated in cinematography at the Boston University in 1969, then started working as dubbing voice for Italian films released in United States. Later Luotto moved to Rome where in 1978 obtained a great success as "fantasista" in the Renzo Arbore's TV-show ''L'altra domenica''. In 1979 he made his film debut as lead actor of ''SuperAndy'', a bizarre parody of ''Superman'', then started a quite regular career as character actor. In 1983 he wrote, directed and starred ''Grunt'', a film parody of Jean-Jacques Annaud's ''Quest for Fire''. Selected filmography * '' In the Pope's Eye '' (1980) * '' Ski Mistress '' (1981) * '' I carabbimatti'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Giornale
''il Giornale'' ( en, The Newspaper) is an Italian language daily newspaper published in Milan, Italy. History and profile The newspaper was founded in 1974 by the journalist Indro Montanelli, together with the colleagues Enzo Bettiza, Ferenc Fejtő, Raymond Aron and others, after some disagreements with the new pro- left editorial line adopted by the newspaper ''Corriere della Sera'', where Montanelli had been one of the most important contributors. Montanelli left ''Corriere della Sera'' in 1973. The newspaper was first published on 25 June 1974 as ''il Giornale nuovo'', with Indro Montanelli as editor and member of the publishing company board of directors and an editorial office composed of 59 journalists. The paper has a conservative stance. The paper's headquarters is in Milan. In 1977 Montanelli, in financial difficulties, accepted an offer by Silvio Berlusconi, who thus became the new owner. In 1983 the paper was renamed as ''il Giornale''. When Berlusconi entered politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
