The ingenious formats of Michele Guardì and the other dinosaurs: variety that extends life

Faithful as a carabiniere, man of a single company, gray broadcaster and Grand Commis of state television, Michele Guardì is about to turn eighty. Martin Scorsese celebrated them with a party at Casa Cipriani, in the Battery Maritime Building in New York. Our “Wolf of Viale Mazzini” instead enjoys them with a grand tour of interviews and celebrations on his TV. “Sua di lui” because Guardì in Rai is the host even in the broadcasts of his colleagues, a bit like Cav. when he swooped down on the Telegattis and everyone snapped to attention, he immediately became his guests. Already seen in “Life in direct” and “Tomorrow is another day”, where he recalled “half a century lived in Rai”, last Sunday Michele Guardì was from Mara Venier. Relaxed, rested, in excellent shape and with a book on sale. His second novel. It is set in the DC section of a Sicilian village in the 1970s, with the marshal of the carabinieri, the parish priest, the pharmacist, the barber, the spotless but perhaps not “fimmina”. A literary version of the figurines that have been animating the square of “Fatti yours” for over thirty years, his favorite television creature. Guardì is preparing for an old age like Camilleri, first a career in Rai, then a bestseller, with the inevitable folk thriller, “a fun thriller, with very beautiful regional implications, even with many curiosities about my country”, he explained everything perky in Venier’s sitting room.