As irritating as the trivia questions about which Hyenas have long built a schedule in the past, when you agree to join a program like Beasts it would be logical to do a little brushing up so as not to be caught unprepared, and it’s a real shame that Rocco Casalino, a man who by profession should anticipate and predict the questions of journalists, has not thought about it. The crime took place during the episode of the Fremantle Italia program aired on Tuesday 28 February on Rai2, when Francesca Fagnani, as usual, brought back to Casalino some previous statements, including one in which she explained that she had made career and to have distinguished himself in life thanks to the culture and literature he devoured in the past. “If I am what I am, I am not for the Big Brother, but I am because I studied a lot. From the Enlightenment to Baudelaire, from Humanism to the passion I have for Italian literature», Fagnani reminds him before making him fall into the trap.
«Tell me your reference classics», asks the presenter. «Dostoevsky certainly, Goethe absolutely, Pirandello, Moravia, Baudelaire…», the naive answer of Rocco Casalino who gives Fagnani the go to ask him for the title of a poem by Baudelaire. «So, I’ll tell you something», Casalino began trying to remedy, «in my work one of the big problems I have, and this also in some international contexts, is memory. In my faculty at Engineering, for example, I didn’t remember the formulas and I derived them, which is also useful in my work, I don’t have a good memory and I give up. I don’t remember all the things I read, is one of the big problems of my job. I remember the meaning of things, if you want I can tell you the meaning. Moravia and the indifferent, if you want I’ll tell you… », but the presenter of Beasts doesn’t fall for it. «No, Baudelaire, whom you quoted».
And here comes the masterpiece given that, in the moment in which Fagnani seems to want to go on, Rocco Casalino, in a desperate attempt to save himself for a corner, shoots it very big: «So, let’s see… Now I remember, Madame Bovary?”. “But how Madame Bovary? Look, it’s getting worse.” points out the evidently amused presenter not only for the imaginative answer, but also for the certainty of having secured the headlines in the following day’s newspapers. That television promotes the unpreparedness of well-known faces on basic cultural issues now seems very evident – let’s think of the press conference of the Sanremo Festival, when a reporter of the Courier asked Amadeus, Chiara Ferragni and Gianni Morandi for their favorite article of the Constitutionbut also to the podcast Wild Moss when, in the presence of Gerry Scotti, Fedez did not hide that he did not know who Giorgio Strehler was – but one wonders: can pressing this key be considered a clever and intelligent practice? Who benefits from it: who asks the question or the public who runs to get indignant on social networks after discovering a moment earlier on Google that Madame Bovary did Gustave Flaubert write it? This is the dilemma.
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