ORtoday, January 27, Vincenzo Mollica blows out 70 candles. The journalist, who became one of the first television specialized in the entertainment worldhe celebrated with his friend Fiorello a Long live Rai2!.
The voice that told the Italians about the show
Since boyhood, Vincenzo Mollica has come to terms with an overwhelming passion for comics, cinema and song. Indeed, after a law degree at the University of Urbino, in 1980 he joined the editorial staff of TG1. Since then it has become one of the most familiar faces and voices of Italians. Indeed, with his reports and interviews, told the main protagonists of Italian and international entertainment. With grace and passion.
In his very first reports on TG1 he talked about Walt Disney, Francesco De Gregori and Nanni Moretti. The journalist – collaborator also of Radiocorriere TV, Linus, Repubblica Friday, Il Messaggero And the Unit – he followed some very important entertainment events for Rai like the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles. But also the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. From 1981, then, he was the correspondent of TG1 at the Sanremo Festival. They made history its connections from the balcony of the Ariston theatera few minutes before the start of the evenings, with guests and conductors.
In his career, Vincenzo Mollica – who is also a draftsman (he exhibited his works at the Vittoriano in Rome in 2006) – edited the in-depth column on the show on TG1, entitled DoReCiakGulpfrom 1998 to 2020. From 2005 to 2008, however, you conducted on Rai Radio 2 Words words, stories of songsa program in which he interviewed great names in the music of our country.
Illness and the standing ovation at Sanremo 2020
In February 2019 Vincenzo Mollica communicated that he has become almost blind due to some degenerative eye diseases (uveitis, glaucoma, platic iridocyclitis). In addition to this, he has not hidden that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
In an interview published today in the Corriere della Sera signed by Elvira Serra the journalist he also spoke of these diseases, defined several times as “unwelcome friends”. “They continue to be unwelcome, but I try to get along with it every dayI do my best, always putting before me that fantastic thing called hope, irony, which makes you see even what you don’t see».
Rai has postponed his retirement date from 27 January 2020 to 29 February 2020. In this way, it allowed the journalist to follow the Sanremo Festival as a correspondent for the last time (his thirty-ninth). On that occasion, there were many demonstrations of affection from colleagues and artists. And during the fourth evening of the event she received a well-deserved standing ovation from the Ariston Theater. A moment that will certainly be hard to forget…
The most important interviews of Vincenzo Mollica? With Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni…
In the aforementioned interview with Corriere della Sera, Vincenzo Mollica retraced some important moments of his career. «When I joined Rai I did 50 services. The year after 150 and then about 250 a year». It’s still. «Tg1 has never been a job for me, but a feeling: passion, curiosity and effort. She gave me the opportunity to meet special people that I will never forget ».
Remembrance is essential for the journalist. «Now that I can’t see anymore, it’s the memories that come alive. When you have darkness in your eyes, you look for thoughts that can illuminate it, you try to see what you don’t see in the most festive way».
And, therefore, he added. «I remember with particular love the meetings with Federico Fellini, with Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi, Adriano Celentano, Vasco Rossi. Interviews are good when the people you talk to give you something that wakes up something else inside you».
Vincenzo Mollica and Vasco Rossi, at the Venice Film Festival, September 11, 2015. Credit: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
The celebrations with Fiorello a VivaRai2!
Today the journalist born in Formigine was celebrated by his friend Fiorellostar of his very popular morning show of VivaRai2!. The showman made Mollica sit on a real throne and let him arrive a huge cakefrom which a dancer came out (complete with Giorgia Meloni mask).
Mollica’s emotion in Via Asiago was evident. But she joked. “It seems a little too much for the prime minister to wish me well.” According to Fiorello, the journalist “represents entertainment, cinema and music”.
On the occasion of this seventieth birthday, today Rai Teche publishes the anthology on RaiPlay Molliche: Vincenzo’s interviews, in which you can rediscover his dialogues with names such as Sergio Leone, Fabrizio De André, Lucio Dalla, Raffaella Carrà, Gianna Nannini, Laura Pausini, Renato Zero and Francesco Guccini. But the list is still long.
And during his hosted at VivaRai2!, Vincenzo Mollica wanted to thank the Rai top management for this tribute. «In forty years of Tg1 I have combined too many. I am pleased with the homage that Rai Teche and Tg1 pay me today, for which I thank Monica Maggioni… Really thank you…». And she added. “But in the morning I wake up with Fiorello. I chose to celebrate this morning with Rosario Fiorello which is a blessing for me. Every morning waking up with Fiorello is like being blessed with life».
Mickey Mouse’s homage to Vincenzo Mollica: a new story has been released featuring his character Vincenzo Paperica
In 1995, a story was published in the pages of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck Centennial Oscarwhich featured the reporter Vincenzo Paperica as the protagonist. Since then, the character designed by Giorgio Cavazzano has returned 16 more timesin stories written not only by Mollica, but also by other authors such as Tito Faraci and Fausto Vitaliano.
On the occasion of the seventieth birthday of the journalist, came out in the latest issue of Topolino (released January 25, published by Panini Comics) an unpublished story, entitled Donald Duck, Paperoga & Paperica and the hunt for a thousand VIPs. The drawings are by Maestro Giorgio Cavazzano, while the screenplay is by Roberto Gagnor. And they have as protagonist the journalist’s feathered alter ego. Which, with this umpteenth acknowledgment, he will hear once again the sincere affection of an entire countrygrateful for all his stories full of passion and elegance.
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