Monday, May 05, 2008

If it smells like a fascist


It must be

Gianni Alemanno to blacklist Hollywood stars to promote Italian films

The new mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, a former fascist, has launched a campaign to promote Italian films at the expense of those featuring Hollywood stars such as Nicole Kidman and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are to be blacklisted.

American actors who flocked to Rome for its film festival will no longer be invited, on the orders of Alemanno, 50, of the National Alliance party, who last week became the first rightwinger to win the mayor’s job in 15 years.

You know, sometimes living in this country is amazing. Can you make this stuff up? Maybe he is jealous and thinks he should be in George Clooney's shoes getting jigging with Nicole Kidman.

I can't say this is how you make friends....


Krista

2 comments:

Susan65 said...

Who is this pensive fellow? Maybe I should know but I don't.

Krista said...

He just became mayor of Rome.

Official Bio...

Rome's newly elected mayor likes rock-climbing, meditating and organic foods; he's a friend of Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement. As minister of agriculture in Mr Berlusconi's last government, he was praised by an opposition leader as "Berlusconi's best minister". His extremist past makes him a bogeyman of the Roman left.


His "extremist" past includes street violence and he has been called a "neo-fascist".