Luciana Littizzetto's Emotional Letter to Maurizio Costanzo

"Hello Maurizio, or Maury as they call you here, or Costanzo as the Italians call you. You've been gone for a year and since then TV is no longer the same." In perfect Luciana Littizzetto style, the comedian reads on TV a letter written for Maurizio Costanzo during the evening dedicated to him aired last night on Channel 5. Luciana's words moved all of Parioli, the viewers and also Maria De Filippi. TV ratings, yesterday's top and flop: audience boom for "dedicated to Costanzo", Champions League guarantee, bad the movie about Céline Dion, Le Iene are on the podium. Luciana Littizzetto and the letter to Costanzo "Here it's a bit like the Louvre without the Mona Lisa or Athens without the Parthenon or Sanremo without Vessicchio. Sure, we move on, but you realize that something is missing. Because you have been the television, more than the parabola, the remote control or the cathode tube. You were the invention, what was not there before, on TV there is a before C and an after C, where C stands for Costanzo. And you were the talk show, the high and the low that mix, the lives of people that become history. If Rai with Maestro Manzi taught us to read, you taught us what to read, what to listen to or see. You who have opened the curtain to a lot of young comedians with a stormy soul who on this stage have managed to find the route. You noticed, you scrutinized us and spotted that spark we had inside, even if it was so small that we didn't even see it. You gave a chance also to me, a small Turin comedian at the beginning." Maurizio Costanzo, who are his children of art: from Fiorello (who he met in a holiday village) to Brignano, Mastrandrea and Iacchetti (who would have been a tobacconist) The memories "Then the call came 'would you like to come?' Not even time to hang up that I was already at the station. Then those minutes waiting in front of the door of your dressing room together with the other guests of the episode, among politicians, magistrates, writers, dancers, journalists, runaways, it seemed like the bar of Star Wars. Then you called us and we entered one by one like from the mutual doctor. While you were smoking one of the nine cigarettes you had in hand you listened to us and after a few minutes you dismissed us 'see you later' you said. And we wondered 'has he understood?' But you understood everything very well. Now I can confess it to you: you have no idea of the anxiety I had. When I was up here, if out of the corner of my eye I saw that things were not going as you hoped my blood turned into granita, but it was enough that you approached with your stool a little closer to me, leaning on the folder as if it was a windowsill to feel that you were trusting and I too took a breath." The thanks "I wanted to thank you also as a spectator, for all the times I woke up on the sofa and found your big face to tame the audience 'good, be good', while Sgarbi sent someone to hell. Thank you for making me discover a new artist or find one from the past. Thank you for talking about the mafia in an easy, clear way, that everyone understood, unfortunately though they understood it too well. And thank you for talking in an entertainment show about homophobia, homosexuals, transgender, aids, for lowering the bigoted provincialism of our nation. And I want to say thank you to Maria for letting me go up here on this stage to remember your Maurizio. Time doesn't change anything about pain, but remembering together is a kind of caress that makes it a little lighter. You are a beautiful couple. PS: Maurizio, at least from up there, changing perspective, have you understood what's behind the corner?" Alessandra Amoroso, Annalisa, Emma and Elodie, the sexy transformation of the former students of Amici: how they are today (and how they were) Fabio Fazio promptly thanked her: "That's why Lucianina is special", he declared hugging her.