Pippo Baudo Rome Funeral: Chiambretti, Amadeus, Parisi Memories

There were about eight thousand people who yesterday lined up to the Theater of the victories, in Rome, to give the last farewell to Pippo Baudo, disappeared on August 16 at 89 years old. An uninterrupted and moved flow of friends, relatives, colleagues and admirers who paid tribute to the coffin of the famous TV conductor – between photos, videos and memories of a life and a record career – which continues today (from 9 to 12) in the burning room set up by Rai and the Baudo family.

Chiambretti: “Pippo was revolutionary”

Already from the early hours of this morning a snake of people was created between the entrance of the Theater of the victories and viale Mazzini: many waited for the opening of the burning room, where the presenter’s daughter was welcomed, Tizianaand his closest collaborators. Among the first to arrive Piero Chiambretti: «It is always said that the best die, sometimes as a commonplace. In this case the sentence is absolutely spot on. Pippo Baudo did not reinvent, invented Italian television». And he added: «He was considered a conservative, but I, having also known him on stage and having made a Sanremo with him, I think it was actually a revolutionary. He was a man capable of taking his responsibilities even in difficult moments, always a gentleman. Now I don’t see an heir of Super Pippo. For me it was A hard blow to come here this morning. The Teatro delle Vittorie should bear its name ».

Amadeus: “He said to me: you have to do TV with passion and respect”

Among the first to pay him homage this morning too Amadeus: «I have known Pippo for many years, I have also had the honor of having a guest in some broadcasts or having gone to him. Before my five festivals, in a restaurant not far from here, he asked me to sit at his table: I will never forget all the advice he gave me. Said “you have to do Sanremo, in case you were asked you have to do so” and it listed me a whole series of things that I printed in my mind as commandments to be observed since that day: the first of these was do things with passion, love and respect for people at home. Respect is fundamental, beyond the practical advice to set up a festival or any other broadcast ». Amadeus then added: «It is Difficult to do today the television of the past. It is not said that today one cannot try to do it ». And he added: «Speaking of Fiorelloit is clear that Rosario is one who can make the variety, if we think of the great variety of Rai it is the only name that, in my opinion, can do this. But Pippo has no heirs».

Heather Parisi publishes an unpublished video interview

Meanwhile this morning Heather Parisi has published an unpublished private video on social mediashot in 2008, in which Pippo Baudo confessed: “I am concerned with the idea of no longer being thereto disappear, not to leave a mark, not to become a flower, a palm tree. It would be beautiful. How would I love to come back? Like a butterflya colorful butterfly. But the butterfly unfortunately lives very little. If I hadn’t been the presenter? I’d like to be the conductor». An intimate moment between the two, for a long time collaborators on the Rai screens, that the former dancer tells: “Seventeen years ago, in the quiet of the house, you gave me a moment that I keep in my heart – writes Parisi in the post that accompanies the video interview -” I would like me I made me a gift “, you told me with that engaging smile. “Which?” I asked curiously. And you, with the warm voice of those who know how to speak to the soul: “Keep it for a distant day away …”». Now that day has arrived. «Those words Pippo – adds Parisi – have become a promise. My promise to you. Today, while the world greets you, I only feel a goodbye. Because something so bright cannot vanish: it will return, in a hug, in a laugh, in a curtain that reopens. Hi, Pippo».

Baudo: «I would like to be reborn butterfly. The world of today scares me “

In the fragment published on social media, Baudo also admitted that the thing that frightened him was “this world today”. “I worry that man no longer respects man. We are now in continuous war. Everywhere there is a quarrelsome, a kind of man’s hatred against another. There is a world economy that is very rich. It cannot fail to think of those who do not have. Moreover, these worlds, one day, when they notice, will become bad towards those who have denied him the joy of living. Yes, acids, love. And they are right, they are right to take revenge. That is, then we don’t surprise ourselves. But like this aggression? But necessarily we kept them in captivity, “Baudo included in the chat with Heather Parisi.

Michele Placido: “He was proud of my successes”

Among the friends of the world of entertainment visiting the burning room this morning also Michele Placido: «I remember more than everything tenderness». The director then opened the drawer of memory: «After the success of the criminal novel, he proposed me with enthusiasm to cover Mastro Don Gesualdo di Verga, a project he kept very much – he said -. And I remember the last phone call with him in January. He called me when he knew that I would direct the series on Rosario Livatino for Rai, wanted by Pope Francis. He was curious to know what the pope had told me and happy that I was to sign the direction ». Finally: «He was very happy with the success of La Piovra. For him my successessince I am a Sicilian by adoption, they were a source of prideHe concluded.

Ambra Angiolini: “I found myself with him”

«Baudo was The king of televisionit was something more. The after festival with him was a way to return and be aware of myself, realizing that I had been and that I could go back to being ». As Ambra Angiolini at the exit of the burning chamber. “The memory that I have left of Baudo is how this job can be done – added the actress – he was one of the first to really worry about how I was before talking about work. I take me behind his hand on the shoulderit’s a beautiful gift that gave me, “he concluded.

Panariello: “He is the patron saint of the variety”

Per Giorgio PanarielloPippo Baudo is “the patron saint of the variety. Variety that unfortunately is a little disappearing and which should instead be re -evaluated because in my opinion it is a form of show that we have copyright ». He said it by arriving together with Marco Masini at the Teatro delle Vittorie. “I hope this disappearance may have turned on a lighthouse on the variety, which is going slowly,” he added.

Masini: “Without him” Fuck “would not have come out”

Marco Masini Instead, he recalled that without Baudo “he would never come out”Fuck“. It was the first to clear it And therefore to give me the opportunity to get it to everyone and for this I will always thank him. A great courage that perhaps today is missing in songs ». «He certainly understood that time was changing, both from a point of view of musical evolution
itself, both from a market point of view, system and dissemination – has
Masini continued -. The transition from analogue to digital had foreseen it. This means having A 360 degree view of what was the pastof what is the present and what will be the future».

Crowd of VIPs and admirers until the closing of the burning chamber

The flow of people and faces known to the Teatro delle Vittorie did not stop, where they also arrived Salvo Sottile, Matilde Brandi, Martufello, Maurizio Mattioli before closing of the burning chamberpunctual at 12.

At the exit applause and tears on the notes of “Pink Woman”

Then it was the moment of father’s blessing Albino Marinolliof the parish of the Christ the king of Viale Mazzini to “accompany Pippo towards his native land”. Finally the applause and the emotion on the notes of “Pink woman” (song written by Baudo) at the exit of the coffin from the theater, which will be transferred to Sicily For the funeral scheduled for Wednesday August 20 at 4pm in the church of Santa Maria della Stella a Militello Val di Cataniaa country of origin of the conductor who made the history of Italian TV.

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