#daniel albanese

[thedustyrebel]

Nuart Journal: TRESPASS

Check out the most recent Nuart Journal, where I had the absolute honor of being interviewed by Dr Susan Hansen about Queer Street Art and my film OUT IN THE STREETS. The interview, which is by far the most in-depth I have done about the project, can be found here: Queer Liberation and Street Art: Taking Public Space and Declaring Our Right to Exist.

And here can be found a digital download of the complete issue for free.

More: Queer Street Art, Dusty Rebel Production 

[nando161mando]

The pressure is mounting on Ecuador’s neoliberal government of Daniel Noboa, son of the country’s largest banana plantation owner. Workers’ unions held another large protest against electricity shortages that have resulted in months of constant blackouts.

[nando161mando]

This motherphucker…

[marcogiovenale]

he worst is yet to come? - un special rapporteur francesca albanese at the european parliament

A public hearing was held on April 9th at the European Parliament on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the failure of EU Member States and institutions to meet their obligations to prevent it. The full event is available here: • Francesca Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) • Daniel Levy (President of US-Middle East Project, former…

[eretzyisrael]

by Jonah Fried

B’nai Brith Canada is astounded and appalled by the University of Toronto’s refusal to acknowledge its concerns on behalf of the Jewish community about a pair of problematic events scheduled to take place on campus next week.

“We were disappointed, to put it mildly, by the U of T’s response to a letter we sent last week,” said Richard Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy. “In the wake of the antisemitism that proliferated at the encampment last summer, U of T committed to securing its campus and creating an environment that is safe for all students. The response we received from the university dismissed our valid concerns and did not even express a hint of compassion for Jewish students, who are concerned that the two events next week will further escalate tensions and incite hatred on campus.”

The first of the two planned events is a Nov. 7 appearance by Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Albanese has repeatedly legitimized the acts of terrorist organizations, including violence against Israeli civilians.

On Nov. 8, anti-Israel radicals intend to host a so-called “Anti-Zionist Ideas Conference.” The panel is set to include Nasser Abourahme, who has described Zionism as “colonialism” and, in doing so, rejects the Jewish people’s ancestral ties to the Land of Israel. Other participants include Daniel Boyarin, who advocates for a no-state solution to the conflict in Israel, effectively calling for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish State.

In response to B’nai Brith’s letter, which cited concerns for the security and well-being of the Jewish community, a spokesperson for U of T President Meric Gertler wrote that the school “does not take positions on contentious social, political or other issues apart from those directly pertaining to higher education and academic research.” The University did not offer any proactive assurances or commitments to mitigate the issues B’nai Brith raised on behalf of Jewish students, faculty and staff.

“Even if U of T feels it cannot stop the events from taking place, it could have done more to acknowledge the bona fide concerns of its Jewish community,” Robertson said. “It could have offered to increase security on campus or committed to monitoring the events for incidents of hate speech or misinformation. Instead, the administration seems disinterested in the impact the events will have on the Jewish members of its community.

“U of T appears to have wiped its hands of the matter, and that is extremely difficult to accept.”

[eretzyisrael]

by Daniel Greenfield

Not only did Weingarten not stand with Jewish activists against the Women’s March antisemitic leaders, but she is a board member of the Americans for Peace Now BDS group whose CEO Hadar Susskind praised Ben & Jerry’s decision to boycott Israel as a “principled moral stance which we fully support”. APN has platformed antisemitic figures like UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who claimed that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby”.

Weingarten’s AFT union has demanded that Israel stop attacking Hamas in a resolution presented  with personal support from Randi at a convention where Kamala spoke. The AFT defended the pro-terrorist mobs harassing Jewish students and faculty on campuses.

Randi Weingarten has repeatedly attacked Israel and tweeted a quote claiming that  “the Hamas attack was heinous; the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza have been reprehensible.”

Weingarten’s girlfriend, Sharon Kleinbaum, and fellow participant in Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris is even worse. After Kleinbaum read the names of Hamas terrorists alongside fallen Israeli soldiers at the LGBTQ temple she formerly officiated at, congregants left feeling that it had become pro-terrorist. One departing congregant complained that it “was essentially delivering Hamas propaganda. … My partner and I are starting a family and frankly I don’t want to raise my kids in a synagogue that’s praying for people firing rockets.”

Kleinbaum had co-signed a T’ruah letter together with anti-Israel activists urging Biden not to allow Israel to finish off Hamas in Rafah and claimed that Israel cannot “lay the full responsibility for the unimaginable suffering of a massive population of trapped civilians at the feet of Hamas.” The letter also called for Biden to impose sanctions on members of Israel’s government.

Weingarten and Kleinbaum are not outliers at Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris.

Sharon Brous of IKAR, profiled by Variety as a “trendy, progressive congregation”whose wealthy congregants include Steven Spielberg and appears to have some link to Kamala’s husband, is also on the list. Brous had attacked the Jewish State before the Oct 7 attacks, including in a hateful Yom Kippur address, claiming that “there can be no democracy with occupation.”

[dialogue-queered]

Turmoil in the Australian wing of The Guardian's Anglosphere media powerhouse.

Extract 1: In the nine months since [Karen] Middleton replaced Katharine Murphy (now [Prime Minister] Albanese’s press secretary), the culture at Guardian Australia has become the talk of the Canberra press gallery. In the final months of 2024, political reporters Amy Remeikis, Daniel Hurst and veteran political photographer Mike Bowers all departed in quick succession. [Paul] Karp then flagged his own move to Nine-owned masthead The Australian Financial Review in December, meaning all but two of its Canberra staff had left in the past year.

It is also looking for a new economics correspondent after veteran Peter Hannam quit in December. All cited different reasons for their departures.

Extract 2: In the most recent report from ratings agency Ipsos, Guardian Australia was the country’s sixth-most read news outlet, with an audience of 7.2 million. The Sydney Morning Herald was fourth, while The Age was ninth.

Guardian Australia doubled its profits in the 2024 financial year to $A1.27 million.

[bloghrexach]

🇵🇸 … the utter destruction caused by constant bombing and shelling is beyond what the brain can imagine!!

By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …

“Satellite images show the before and after Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings.

The aerial footage, collected and released by Maxar Technologies, reveal the scale of destruction following the aggressor’s siege on the complex.

The occupation forces destroyed the buildings housing the kidney and maternity wards, mortuary refrigerators, and cancer and burn facilities, and destroyed the outpatient clinic building.

The occupation announced that it had “arrested top Hamas officials” during its raid on Al-Shifa Hospital.

A photo collage released by the army showed that Al-Qassam Brigades leader Raed Saad was among the detainees.

In a press conference, the Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari boasted of detaining “very significant” senior Hamas commanders, according to The Times of Israel.

A security official in the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, however, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that “the list of detainees’ photos at Al-Shifa Hospital released by the spokesperson of the occupation army is inaccurate.”

“Some of the photos on the list belong to individuals currently outside Gaza, and other photos are of martyrs,” the official continued, noting that “three of the photos on the list are of doctors previously released by the occupation.”

According to Hamas, the reports “about the arrest of dozens of resistance leaders at Al-Shifa Hospital are false.”

“What is published in the Hebrew media is inaccurate and is part of the psychological and moral warfare against the resistance in Gaza,” the official concluded.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli official announcement that Saad was arrested in the Al-Shifa Medical Hospital turned out to be false.

In a joint statement, the occupation forces and the Shin Bet admitted that “due to human error, there are several photos in the graphic of terrorists who have not yet been caught.”

“A few more (photos) were added by mistake,” Yedioth Ahronoth also reported.

Al Shifa was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'Healing’;

✍🏻 … A massive symbol of the heartless, cynical Israeli politics of colonial occupation with the goal of elimination of the Palestinian people, their social institutions and their lives.

US, EU, UK governments stand shamed, complicit by their support for Israeli war crimes and atrocities against all humanity.

Watch carefully the killing fields of Shifa, never ever forget the Gaza genocide, the perpetrators, and the complicit powers.

Dr. Mads Gilbert 🇳🇴 ⛑️ 16 years service at the Al Shifa. Posted on X, 1 April, 2024.

“Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler colonial project in Palestine, signalling a tragedy foretold” Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, March 2024.

COLONISED, MASSACRED, BOMBED, AND THEN BLAMED!! 🕊

#reclaimthenarrative — 🍉 — #FreePalestine … @hrexach

[lizard-reads-the-world]

YA Books about 🇦🇹 Austria

List of Austria books for the YA World Challenge.

It's been quite a while since I did a country-themed list. This one has been sitting in the drafts for a while.

I have discovered that YA books in English featuring Austria consist of only 3 categories:

WW2 (sometimes WW1)

Empress Sisi (interchangeable with Marie Antoinette or Nannerl Mozart)

Eva Ibbotson

And that's it. Well, I'm kidding, but it almost seems like it. Here's the little list I came up with. Feel free to suggest any I missed - I mostly search through Goodreads to find these so the list is prone to mistakes and omissions!

YA

I Don't Live Here Anymore by Gabi Kreslehner 💚 The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ⌛🦋 Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville ⌛ When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler ⌛ Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld ⌛🦋 A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson 💚 Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap ⌛ Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten 💚 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ⌛🦋 Becoming Marie Antoinette: A Novel by Juliet Grey ⌛ European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (#2) by Theodora Goss ⌛🦋 Wanderlost by Jen Malone 🏖️ Coronets and Steel by Sherwood Smith 🏖️🦋 The Empress by Gigi Griffis ⌛ The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg ⌛ The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer ⌛ In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer ⌛ Apple's Song by Blake Ryan 🏖️

MG

Hedy and her Amazing Invention by Jan Wahl 🛩️ The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of by Kristin Levine 🏖️♿ The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr 🦋 Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross 🛩️ Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne 🏖️⌛🦋 Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky ⌛ The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman ⌛ Stolen Words by Amy Goldman Koss 🏖️ The Taste of Snow by Stephen V. Masse

Memoir

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust GN 💚 How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust GN 💚 Fat by Regina Hofer 💚♿ Becoming Alice: A Memoir by Alice Rene 💚⌛

NA/Adult

The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki ⌛ The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton ⌛ Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil ⌛🌈 The English Girl by Margaret Leroy ⌛🏖️ The Secret Society of Salzburg by Renee Ryan ⌛ The Edelweiss Sisters by Kate Hewitt ⌛ The Light After the War by Anita Abriel ⌛ The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck ⌛ The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor ⌛ The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason ⌛ House of Gold by Natasha Solomons ⌛ Setting Free the Bears John Irving Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese ⌛ The Girl with the Golden Scissors by Julia Drosten ⌛ Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson ⌛

💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy or Paranormal 🌈 LGBTQ+ ♿ Disability rep

[bharatindiansarepsycho]

We’d like to express our deepest disgust against the Australian dept health esp w.a nsw qld, they are liars frauds insulting poisonous evil and do things contrary to humanity, ie exploiting mental health eg after learning what they can do as nurses quacks and security and police , bend it an entrap people indeed just lie to kidnap poison ruin the reputation of regular normal people of the public. It could be anything eg a person who complains about sex abuse of a police man / woman (under pretence of scoring smack or pot off them) to a jealous pig quack shrink of family member of eg of a photographer, to stop them. Doing it , so they can overrun them -even though they are unqualified in most / many ways.

They will call you paranoid - lock you up manipulate all and anything. Lets give these people capital punishment now like fabricant Stella Rihanna mcneil max pam kev ballentine norm Leslie mike oshaughness Danielle brandt marie anne larissa and dad judge italians in australia , straight out aussies , aus abos, spicks, mediterranean peoples like greeks / Libyans etc. 

There end goal is getting you outta the way, stealing your shit/stuff, take it off you! All under pretences like I’m an Aussie youre not - you may have worked 24/7 for 20 yrs but we’re gonna take it off ya , and tuff shit. - like neville Colin gray, australian government esp under John award , rudd,abbott,gillard, morrison, albanese, obama,bush,blair, etc, these people are the police (aus nz usa security and health dept as mentioned like dr nurse mental health exploiters and liars) we must get all monies paid to them back off them over their entire lifetime and put up for capital punishment! Eg David Slater jeniffer Justin simon lawton lins Robert Nina Phillip kovacevic sis of si lawton n mum n dads , pc gavin walshe,edith cowan uni 1997-2006 uwa like prof Ian dadour forensics, pc wallace,adelaide police,airlie police, cairns librarians, wilson security, hospital sec, asians,bungs, nz,maoris,moores,dickersons,mphersons, giles, blacks , honks etc canberrans, Sydneysiders,auklanders, germans cities, crown solicitors shaz victims support, small claims lawyers , work cover chechians brandt, richards price hill cooke clarke George karpathokis katriana Leon alman tafewa tafefnq ndis ndia disabilty centrelink,ces, dhss, pakis,bharat indians, arshad omari,ira,robyn quin, curtin ,murdoch,edith, dadour Ian, jap kor,taiwanes hk,brisbane police,st vincents hospital Sydney, ste doyle psychiatrists,psychologists, silvia ratsch,siobahn stewart sanderson centacarfnq, catholice, h dealers pot heas, boongs,maoris, Laura, dole,dhss,ashraf,london met,ambos, paramedics canberrans, perth police, princess dianas hospital fremantle, freo police,adelaide police sa, nsw police, Sydney hospital a and e , freo a and e, brisbane  rbwh hospital and a and e and all their doctors nurses and workers like cleaners and porters. Kerry davison , Jane phillips of thorpe and edmonton, gw bush, usa cia yabks, can swe den nor, pam, max and wife a nurse - wierdo sex abusing pedders nr phoenix shops perth. Lucas, Dave, christadelphians,spaw, pace, cairns hospital north cairns mental health sheffield nurse bath shrink in cairns goel fabio ballestro etc 

By Joe bloggs annette Buckingham David lester-smith and Paul lester-smith and mum

[swldx]

BBC 0408 10 Sep 2024

12095Khz 0358 10 SEP 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 45434. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Danielle Jalowiecka. § At least 19 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike in the designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Witnesses said the strike obliterated an area crowded with tents for displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, south-west of Khan Younis, leaving huge craters in the sand. “The bombing was incredibly intense. People were thrown into the air,” one displaced man told the BBC. “You can’t imagine the devastation.” The Israeli military said its aircraft attacked what it called “a number of senior Hamas terrorists” operating there, a claim Hamas denied. § An extendable robot began on Tuesday a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Highly radioactive fuel and other materials in the reactors melted when a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged the plant’s cooling systems. § Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, sparking a backlash from digital rights advocates who warn the measure could drive dangerous online activity underground. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his centre-left government would run an age verification trial before introducing age minimum laws for social media this year. Albanese didn't specify an age but said it would likely be between 14 and 16. "I want to see kids off their devices and onto the footy fields and the swimming pools and the tennis courts," Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. § Russian officials say they shot down 144 Ukrainian drones around the country overnight in a wave of attacks that have killed one woman, set residential buildings on fire and grounded flights in Moscow. The governor of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov, said several flats in two high-rise apartment buildings in Ramenskoye in Moscow region were set on fire. § Nearly 200 environmental and land defenders around the world were murdered in 2023, with Colombia once again the deadliest place for activists, watchdog Global Witness said in a report. The report also sounds the alarm on a “crackdown on environmental activists across the UK, Europe and the US”, warning “laws are increasingly being weaponised against defenders”. § More than 1,700 prisoners are being let out early in England and Wales today as part of a government scheme to deal with overcrowding. The prison population in England and Wales hit 88,521 last week, an all-time high, and Keir Starmer says the situation is at "crisis point". § The United States did not give any sort of concessions to Nicaragua in exchange for the release of more than 100 political prisoners last week, an official said on Monday. "There were no exchanges or concessions made," Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Eric Jacobstein, said in a press conference. Jacobstein said that the administration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega continued to imprison its citizens for political reasons and urged the leader to free them. § American actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died aged 93. He died early on Monday morning surrounded by his family, agent Barry McPherson said. @0406z "Newsday" begins. Backyard gutter antenna w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), JRC NRD-535D, 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.

[christinamac1]

Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say

Labor-chaired inquiry calls for legislation to rule out accepting high-level nuclear waste from US and UK submarines among other recommendations Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/australia-aukus-deal-submarines-critics-nuclear-waste Australia risks becoming the “world’s nuclear waste dump” unless the Albanese…

[christinamac1]

Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say

Labor-chaired inquiry calls for legislation to rule out accepting high-level nuclear waste from US and UK submarines among other recommendations Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/australia-aukus-deal-submarines-critics-nuclear-waste Australia risks becoming the “world’s nuclear waste dump” unless the Albanese…

[christinamac1]

Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say

Labor-chaired inquiry calls for legislation to rule out accepting high-level nuclear waste from US and UK submarines among other recommendations Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/australia-aukus-deal-submarines-critics-nuclear-waste Australia risks becoming the “world’s nuclear waste dump” unless the Albanese…

[giancarlonicoli]

3 set 2023 11:00

“GINO E MICHELE? SONO SPREGIUDICATI. DA FLAVIO BRIATORE TE LO ASPETTI, NON DA CHI FINGE DI ESSERE UN “COMPAGNO” – MAURIZIO MILANI, UNO DEI FONDATORI DELLO STORICO ZELIG, ATTACCA: “NON MI HANNO PIÙ CHIAMATO, MA POSSO CAPIRLI PERCHÉ HANNO DATO ALLO 'ZELIG' UN TAGLIO DA VILLAGGIO TURISTICO - CON FABIO FAZIO HO LAVORATO IN SEI EDIZIONI DI 'CHE TEMPO CHE FA' MA PER LA COLLABORAZIONE CON 'IL FOGLIO' MI SONO ACCORTO CHE MI FACEVANO MOBBING. NON VOLEVO RIMANERE DI FIANCO A FILIPPA LAGERBÄCK COME UN FIGURANTE" - "PAOLO ROSSI? UN FURBO. BEBO STORTI? ARRIVAVA ALLA CAZZO DI CANE MEZZ’ORA PRIMA DI SALIRE SUL PALCO" -  E SU VALERIO AIRO’ SPIEGA CHE… - VIDEO -

Gianmarco Aimi per www.rollingstone.it 

Qualche tempo fa circolava sui social una foto, in bianco e nero, dov’erano ritratti alcuni dei comici più significativi della scorsa generazione: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo, Antonio Albanese, Antonio Cornacchione e… “l’ultimo a destra”. Era Maurizio Milani, che con quel manipolo di cabarettisti è stato uno dei fondatori dello storico Zelig, il locale milanese che ha sfornato i migliori talenti dell’umorismo a cavallo tra gli anni ‘80 e ‘90 ma che, a differenza degli altri, ha raccolto – almeno a livello di notorietà – molto meno di quello che in tanti si sarebbero aspettati. Surreale, caustico, disincantato, il collega Daniele Luttazzi, di certo non tenero nei giudizi, lo ha incensato: «Fra noi comici ci sono come delle gerarchie, e lui in questo momento è Dio».

(...)

Ormai il tuo “posto fisso” è a Il Foglio, dove collabori da anni.

Devo ringraziare della segnalazione Mariarosa Mancuso, che mi ha fatto conoscere all’allora direttore Giuliano Ferrara. Lui mi dedicò anche una puntata monografica su La7. Finché c’è stato il produttore Paolo Guerra ho sempre lavorato (è venuto a mancare nel 2020, nda), oggi faccio un po’ più fatica. I produttori più potenti sono Beppe Caschetto e Lucio Presta, che vendono programmi alle tv a scatola chiusa. Anche se poi in Rai si lamentano le maestranze.

(...) A Bolzano con Paolo Rossi inciampai per davvero in una cassa acustica e le persone cominciarono a ridere. La sera dopo l’abbiamo inserito nel copione e hanno riso in due. Si percepiva che era finto. Anche se mangi le parole o sbagli i congiuntivi va bene, ma risulti fresco e arrivi. Poi c’è chi esagera, come Bebo Storti.

È famoso per il personaggio del Conte Uguccione. Che cosa faceva?

Lui non preparava nulla, una roba da pazzi. Almeno un canovaccio su un’ora e mezza di spettacolo dovresti averlo, lui niente. A Forlì il direttore del teatro alla fine ci ha detto: «Una roba così non l’ho mai vista, non so neanche dire se è bella o è brutta». Un’altra volta al Ciak di Roma, arriviamo in camerino e la moglie di Bebo ci fa: «Non si viene qui a fare queste figure…». È come se io e te adesso salissimo sul palco a improvvisare per un’ora.

Dopo ci avete riso sopra o è qualcosa su cui si recrimina?

Bebo aveva questa caratteristica: se ingranava subito l’improvvisazione andava alla grande, ma se non succedeva era facile prendere i fischi. Come a Livorno, siamo andati davanti alla gente ma si capiva che non avevamo voglia di lavorare. Al teatro Goldoni a Venezia altra situazione imbarazzante con me e Dario Vergassola, non rideva nessuno. Ma proprio perché non rideva nessuno, paradossalmente, c’era una signora in prima fila che rideva come una matta. Una scena talmente parossistica che si è trasformata in un successo.

È anche per questa vena da improvvisatore che non ti abbiamo mai visto al cinema?

Può essere, eppure Bebo Storti lo ha fatto. Anche Paolo Rossi, che è furbo, improvvisa ma ha sempre un canovaccio al quale aggrapparsi. Bebo invece saliva sul palco alla garibaldina. Ma un conto è andare in discoteca con tutti ubriachi, un altro nei teatri importanti con il tuo spettacolo in abbonamento. E lui arrivava alla cazzo di cane mezz’ora prima. Intanto che camminiamo per le strade e nel parco pubblico della cittadina lombarda, ogni passante lo saluta con un sorriso, tanto che a un certo punto ci appartiamo in un angolo.

(...)

Dopo sei anni, dal 2003 al 2009, non ti abbiamo più visto anche a Che tempo che fa condotto da Fabio Fazio. Come mai?

Perché Fazio è bravo, però è molle. Quando ho accettato di collaborare a Il Foglio di Giuliano Ferrara, mi chiamò l’allora capo struttura di Rai3 in quota Pd, Loris Mazzetti, che mi disse: «Guarda che la linea editoriale qui è chiara e tu vai a scrivere su un giornale di Berlusconi?». Da quel momento i miei spazi sono stati ridotti e spostati nella zona meno nobile. Poi sono passato a una settimana sì e una no, a seguire solo il sabato finché una volta non mi hanno mandato in onda dicendo di aver sforato con i tempi. Così gli ho detto che non ci sarei più andato. Quando ti fanno mobbing lo capisci. Non volevo rimanere di fianco a Filippa Lagerbäck come un figurante. Fazio poteva dire qualcosa a Mazzetti, ma non lo fece.

(...)

C’è qualcuno che ti ha deluso nel mondo dello spettacolo?

Direi Gino e Michele. Non mi hanno più chiamato, ma posso capirli perché hanno dato allo Zelig un taglio da villaggio turistico. Io sono un monologhista che non ha bisogno di travestirsi con le pinne o come una drag queen. La comicità di situazione è un’altra cosa.

Insomma, con Gino e Michele sembri avere un conto aperto.

Sono stato a casa di Michele Mozzati sul lago di Varese, ha una villa della madonna. A un certo punto vado in bagno e vedo che c’è una vasca lunghissima molto strana. Così quando esco chiedo a cosa serve a Diego Parasole, un collega che era con me. E lui: «Ah non lo sai? Quella vasca fa le onde al contrario, così nuoti e intanto fai esercizio». Ed era vent’anni fa. Sai, Flavio Briatore è Flavio Briatore ed è coerente, non va a far finta di essere un “compagno” che gli spiace per il salario minimo. Così come non ti aspetti che un calciatore vada a rompere le vetrine per protestare insieme a quelli dei centri sociali.

C’è ancora chi, come hai raccontato in passato, rimane spiazzato alle tue battute?

Alcuni mi dicono: «Scusi, ma sa che lei non mi fa ridere?». La gente è ormai abituata al comico che deve avere il naso rosso tipo clown. Ma come nella musica ci sono vari generi. A me piacciono, oltre a Nino Frassica, Valerio Lundini, Nicola Vicidomini e Rocco Tanica.

Sai che c’è un giovane comico che alcuni dicono ti somigli?

Se ti riferisci a Valerio Airò, vai a vedere su Youtube i commenti ai suoi filmati. In moltissimi scrivono: “Milani come sei invecchiato bene” oppure “ma chi è il figlio di Milani?”. Mentre sotto ai miei video: “Sei uguale a Valerio Airò”. Lì però gli ho risposto: “Questo è stato girato nel 1993 a Cielito Lindo”. Lui avrà 30 anni, forse non era neanche nato. Non c’è problema, però non ditemi che sono io a copiare lui. Ma sai che ho avuto una soffiata?

Su Valerio Airò?

Mi hanno detto che lui si è messo su quella strada imbeccato da Gino e Michele e da Giancarlo Bozzo, che sono spregiudicati. Lo so perché ho ancora conoscenze all’interno di Zelig. Pare gli abbiano fatto vedere le videocassette dei miei vecchi sketch consigliandogli di prendere spunto. Pensa che quando fece un’apparizione a Sky e c’era Rocco Tanica gli disse: «Assomigli a Maurizio Milani». Lui può fare quello che vuole, ma i pezzi si sovrappongono. Mi pare stia succedendo quello che era accaduto tra Giorgio Porcaro e Diego Abatantuono.

Ti riferisci alla paternità del personaggio del “Terrunciello”?

Lo inventò Giorgio Porcaro, ma i benefici se li prese tutti Diego Abatantuono. Diego non aveva voglia di andare a scuola e la mamma, che faceva la guardarobiera al Derby, lo portava con sé. Non aveva la patente e andava in giro con i I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli ad aggiustare le luci. Un giorno ha visto Giorgio Porcaro che interpretava il ‘Terrunciello’ e l’ha rifatto avendo successo. Un po’ come sta succedendo tra me e Airò.

Maurizio Milani ce l’ha ancora un sogno che vorrebbe realizzare?

Se ci penso, di tutti i colleghi della mia generazione sono l’unico che non ha mai fatto neanche una posa al cinema. Con Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo una volta gliel’ho detto: «Ma con tutti i film che avete fatto, cosa vi costa mettermi lì a fare il barista?». A 62 anni non sono mai stato su un set per lavorare. Non spero mi chiami Marco Bellocchio, basterebbe un regista underground. Ho fatto la tv, il teatro, i libri e i giornali, ma il cinema non è capitato.

In effetti, guardando quella foto degli inizi allo Zelig sei l’unico che manca all’appello.

E la gente sui social si chiede “chi è il primo a destra?”. Sono cose che fanno rimanere male.