Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 83rd birthday of Italian singer-songwriter, playwright, and performer Giorgio Gaber. He is best known and remembered as a pioneer of teatro canzone (theatre song), a reflection of Milanese society captured through the fusion of music, poetry, and theatre. |
Antonio Albanese playing the role of Cetto La Qualunque, a corrupt, perverted Calabrian with organized crime connections, right-wing Senator, running as candidate with a platform based mainly on “abundance of attractive women” (cchiù pilu pi tutti, which is also the title of a book released by Albanese using the character’s name). The character was featured first on Albanese’s own TV show Non c’è problema (There’s no problem), aired on Rai 3 in 2003, but achieved more success when proposed at Mai dire domenica on Italia 1. It is currently staged by Albanese on a weekly basis on the program Che tempo che fa aired on Rai 3. In 2011 was released Qualunquemente, a feature length movie about him, and in 2012, the sequel movie, Tutto tutto niente niente. [From Wikipedia].
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