"Hello Raymond, great teacher"
The sincere condolences of the Head of State Giorgio Napolitano, the tears of a life of his colleagues as Pippo Baudo, Giancarlo Magalli, Maurizio Costanzo, Raffaella Carra, Loretta Goggi, their friends' latest Fiorello Fabio Fazio, and then teams Sampdoria, Juventus, Inter, Milan and many politicians. All of Italy mourns today Raimondo Vianello, a large television, elegant man, and ironic in a respectable career that has crossed the glory years of TV.
passed away today in less than a month after the completion of 88 years - was born in Rome on May 7, 1922 - Saturday, Segrate, where he lived, it will be the funeral. Vianello dies and everyone thinks Sandra Mondaini, 52 years together, but also on the cutting sarcasm of a life partnership in life testing. Sandra is in shock and there is no comment to Raymond who does not respect. I'll say a prayer for Sandra Raymond and one hundred thousand, "said Raffaella Carra a moving from Spain that is called" crashed "by the news. Pippo Baudo, who can not make it back tears, thinking of her: "Raymond was a great man, great artist and yet never star. Sandra was his inspiration that umbilical cord now is broken. " Even Lino Banfi
Mondaini to think: 'He's gone the last master of Italian comedy, but my thought at this time can only go to Sandra. It is an unbridgeable tear not only the heart but also to reason. " Sergio Zavoli talks as "friend for 70 years" rather than as chairman of the Supervisory Rai, "he delays to be born a couple of actors capable of such a large and loyal relationship with their friends and their audiences." Lightness, irony, but also humanity in the many comments today, "was a person of values", said Ettore Bernabei who was director general of RAI at the time of the famous scene on Gronchi Today "television archeology." Giancarlo Magalli cries even live in your affairs, "a friend is gone." Fabio Fazio, "it was as if Raymond is always a step away from to where it was really, as though looking from the outside, with a slight gap. "
"The only thing that makes me happy to think that now there is the pair reformed Tognazzi-Vianello: they will be laughing together," says Maurizio Costanzo moved. "I was never allowed to address him," he recalls with affection Antonella Elia, who has been 'invented by Vianello in the three editions of Pressing. The Mediaset Chairman Fedele Confalonieri said that it "died a true friend to all and that he and Sandra have no heirs." And Pier Silvio Berlusconi added: "Every time I met him, I was really small until the last professional opportunities, I always had the impression that was a person who lit up everything he did. " Rai remember him from the top, "passed away one of the pioneers of Italian television, a professional fine, elegant and never vulgar," says President Paul Garimberti. "A gentleman of the show," adds dg Mauro Masi.
There is a particular friend of the couple, Professor Umberto Veronesi who treated cancer Mondaini Sandra: "He was a cultured man, irreverent, ironic, with great generosity and a strong need to help the weak and unfortunate, even in private life. " Tributed to the Chamber's have a round of applause and Gianfranco Fini Walter Veltroni many politicians have devoted a thought. Virtually all comments almost forget to emphasize the great artist he was: Raimondo Vianello is the great humanity.