Tempo di lettura: 6 minutiI saw Blonde without pre-reading any reviews. Because usually, everything I read about Marilyn Monroe disturbs me: even today, 60 years after her death, Marilyn is still narrated as an icon of femininity, beauty, elegance, and winking, as opposed to a kind of “modern inelegance” of all those women — both celebrities and not — who don’t wear belly choke dresses, stilettos, powdered faces, and kiss-proof lips, accompanying everything with suave vocals and sinuous movements, for the public’s pleasure. Either […]

Tempo di lettura: 6 minutiBurroughs: The “Wild Boys” weapon is a Bowie knife, a forty-five centimeter Bowie knife, did you know that? Bowie: A forty-five centimeter Bowie knife…of course you don’t do things by halves, no really. No, I didn’t know that was their weapon. The name Bowie attracted me when I was younger. I was sixteen years old, I was in a deep philosophical phase, and I was looking for something immediate, something that would immediately make you think of severing the lie, […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiI’m an alligator, I’m a mama-papa coming for you I’m the space invader, I’ll be a rock ‘n’ rollin’ bitch for you Keep your mouth shut, you’re squawking like a pink monkey bird And I’m busting up my brains for the words On September 26, 2022, the right wing takes over the government in Italy. And when bad things happen, we all need to be close to someone who can give us new motivation to continue life’s journey. As I […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiThis morning I opened my eyes at 5:45. But I didn’t get up. I stayed there, trying to stop time a little longer. Because getting up would begin one of those dreaded days. I fell asleep again, enjoying some of the silence that is short-lived in my neck of the woods: at about 7 a.m. the neighbor downstairs curses, just before that the neighbors listen to the TV as if they were at the movies, and the people who come […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiI feel overwhelmed with grief, exhaustion, anger at this whole world that hates women. And I can’t get my thoughts in order. But I want to. I would like to find simple words, I would like to address a young woman or a young man these days: the witch hunt does not belong to a past far from your lives. It happens today, as you live your freedom in the certainty that it will last forever. It happens today as […]

Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiJust a few days ago Jane Fonda, host of Good Morning America to promote Skydance’s animated film, Luck-in which she lends her voice to Babe The Lucky Dragon-was talking about luck, how important it is to accept misfortune in order to grow and learn from it, because that is how we become strong and can bring hope and joy to the world. Jane Fonda at 84 is talking about hope, about the future, about the urgency of running for cover […]